Before we begin If you have not checked out what this series is about then please take a look at the previous parts below. Part 1: Planning Part 2: Ancillary Services Part 3: Management Cluster “Hardware” Part 4: Management Cluster Software Software Defined DataCentre Manager deployment The aim of this […]
Background Whilst deploying bare metal ESXi host workloads on Oracle Ravello, I always thought it odd that you could only specify single core processors per server which results in a 4 CPU system consuming 4 socket license for VMware. When you are limited to 16 socket licenses with vExpert license […]
Before we begin If you have not checked out what this series is about then please take a look at the previous parts below. Part 1: Planning Part 2: Ancillary Services Part 3: Management Cluster “Hardware” Management Cluster Software Management cluster ESXi host install If you made it this far, […]
Before we begin If you have not checked out what this series is about then please take a look at the previous parts below. Part 1: Planning Part 2: Ancillary Services Management Cluster “Hardware”. Part way through writing this blog series, VMware released version 3.5 of VCF. From this point […]
Before we begin If you have not checked out Part 1 of this series, please click here to see what this project is about. Ancillary services? These are the components that are required to make VMware Cloud Foundation work but are not going to be managed by the Software Defined […]
Background If you have read any of my previous blog posts, you may have seen I have run a few different workload types on top of Oracle Ravellos public cloud infrastructure. As a vExpert, a nice little perk available from Ravello is 1000 CPU hours per month, for free, to use […]
Background Now let me start with this. Yes, this is another one of those upgrade blogs, yes I updated to 6.7U1 on day one of the release. This update is however in my lab environment. I do not care if it breaks, its a lab after all. Do not blindly […]
Background After the initial install of a couple of the vRealize products, Log Insight, and Operations, I wanted to remove the annoying warning about the default self-signed certificates not being trusted. I am running a Windows PKI, so will use this to issue replacement certificates. Both Log Insight and Operations follow […]
Background. I recently moved my vSAN 6.6 cluster from VCSA 6.5 to VCSA 6.7 which I detailed in this blog post. The next item on the list was to upgrade to the latest version of vSAN, 6.7. My lab is overly simplified compared to most production environments, so it would […]
Background. A little bit of background for you folks, I wrote a blog post a little while ago on how to deploy a 6.5 VCSA appliance onto Oracle Ravello bare metal. On the back of this, I followed the vMusketeers excellent guide on creating a vSAN cluster on Oracle Ravello. […]