Random Technology thoughts from an Irish Virtualization Geek (who enjoys saving the world in his spare time).
Welcome to Part 3 of my VMware HCX Breadcrumb Build Series HCX pretty much does what it says on the tin, and is pretty straight forward to get running. Some observations below: You will need access to the internet. Dark sites might struggle a wee bit, as the HCX appliances need to reach out to... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Part 2 of my VMware HCX Breadcrumb Build Series In the last post we gathered all the detail needed to setup HCX between a Source and Destination system. This post will get the configuration up and running. Remember that a single source can support multiple destinations, but the source element of this build... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Part 1 of my VMware HCX Breadcrumb Build Series One of the reasons I put together the VVD 4.3 on VxRail Breadcrumb Build series was that I wanted to have a go at using VMware HCX to migrate workloads between a VxRack SDDC and a VxRail. In this series, the ultimate goal is... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Part 10 of my VVD on VxRail Breadcrumb Build Series Initial Thoughts Firstly, this build was a lot of fun. I've spent so long over the past few years working on automation and being knee deep in the minutiae of getting the smallest of tasks done via API etc that its been really... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Part 9 of my VVD on VxRail Breadcrumb Build Series Nearly there folks! Last post for the configuration of VVD on VxRail. While the topic is the same as Post 5 where we did logical networking for the management VxRail, theres' not quite so much to do on the SEC VxRail, so this... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Part 8 of my VVD on VxRail Breadcrumb Build Series As before, we'll deploy and tweak the NSX infrastructure for the SEC vCenter in this post, and then deploy the logical networking in the next post Anything in the format [input_value] represents a value from your preparation that you should insert (without the square brackets... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Part 7 of my VVD on VxRail Breadcrumb Build Series As with the first VxRail we deployed for management use, the SEC VxRail also needs some minor tweaks before we can consider it VVD aligned. Thankfully, the list is shorter than with the management Rail, so we will get through this relatively quickly.... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Part 6 of my VVD on VxRail Breadcrumb Build Series Congratulations on making it this far. Post 5 was a hard slog to write, so I'm sure it took some time to consume / use it too. The good news is that from here on in, you've more or less seen it all... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Part 5 of my VVD on VxRail Breadcrumb Build Series Via previous posts we have gotten vSphere up and running and deployed NSX for the management VxRail. The next major task is to configure the logical networking, including the Load Balancer for the PSCs and the Edge Gateways and UDLR for North/South routing... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Part 4 of my VVD on VxRail Breadcrumb Build Series VMware NSX is not part of a standard VxRail deployment, but its an integral part of VVD, and potentially anything you want to do on top of VVD. In this section, I'm going to walk through the deployment and tweaking of NSX basic... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Part 3 of my VVD on VxRail Breadcrumb Build Series With the default VxRail deployment out of the way, we now need to tweak the setup of the Management VxRail to align it with VVD expectations. From here on in, the VVD build is pretty much completely manual (other than when we use... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Part 2 of my VVD on VxRail Breadcrumb Build Series With all the relevant detail gathered, the next step is to deploy the first of two VxRails. This Rail, with a little tweaking will become the management vCenter/cluster which will host all of the vSphere components (including the external vCenter and second PSC... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Part 1 of my VVD on VxRail Breadcrumb Build Series Note: If you've read this before, you might want to rescan it. I've revamped how I laid out the data you need to gather as I felt this integrated better with the rest of the posts in the series Having spent the past... Continue Reading →
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