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Using the vSphere Cloud Provider for K8s to dynamically deploy volumes

08/02/2019 by Myles Gray 1 Comment

This post is part of the Kubernetes on vSphere course.

Using the VCP As of the last part in the series we have a fully up and running k8s cluster with the vSphere Cloud Provider installed! Let’s make sure it works and is provisioning storage for us by deploying a StorageClass and a test app. Prerequisites Tools I am using macOS, so will be using […]

Filed Under: Cloud Frameworks, Featured, Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Software, Virtualisation Tagged With: containers, esxi, helm, kubernetes, vmware, vsphere

Migrating vSAN vmkernel ports to a new subnet

03/11/2017 by Myles Gray 1 Comment

After deploying a vSAN cluster, the need sometimes arises to make changes to its network configuration, such as migrating the vmkernel network of the cluster to a new subnet. This requirement may appear for example when changing the network in which the vSAN cluster is running, or even, in a more complex scenario such as […]

Filed Under: Infrastructure, Networks, Storage, Virtualisation Tagged With: esxi, vmware, vsan, vsphere

Configuring Auto Deploy Stateless Caching in vSphere 6.0

19/08/2016 by Myles Gray 1 Comment

Following on from my previous post on configuring custom ESXi images for PXE deployment, it piqued my interest again in Auto Deploy, now that I have a lab large enough (enough physical failure domains) to justify auto-deploy I figured i’d give it another go. I have chosen to implement stateless caching as it will allow […]

Filed Under: Automation, Infrastructure, Virtualisation Tagged With: autodeploy, automation, esxi, pxe, vsphere

Building a customised ESXi image for PXE installation

09/08/2016 by Myles Gray 6 Comments

I have recently been working on a larger scale platform for my employer, it requires quick deployments of environments on VSAN with some standardised VIBs added in, initially we were doing this with a standard ESXi ISO install through iDRAC and then installing vCenter, vSphere Update Manager and pushing the VIBs to the hosts via […]

Filed Under: Automation, Infrastructure, Virtualisation Tagged With: esxi, imagebuilder, powercli, pxe, vmware

vSphere Update Manager – Cannot Scan Host

15/05/2016 by Myles Gray 2 Comments

I have been testing out Runecast Analyzer in my lab recently – it’s pretty badass, you can set it up to scan your virtual infrastructure at a vCenter level and will scan your vC, VMs and hosts looking for KBs that may apply, security compliance and best practises. As you can see my lab isn’t […]

Filed Under: Infrastructure, Software, Virtualisation Tagged With: esxi, vmware, vsphere, vUM

In need of a multi-OS, bootable USB? Use an Android phone.

07/04/2016 by Myles Gray 4 Comments

I found myself in the position recently whereby I had two hosts I bought off eBay (as one does for labs), they arrived, I had great plans… But no iDRAC Enterprise :( While the iDRAC Ent cards were on their way to me I couldn’t help but want to install ESXi on these things so […]

Filed Under: Hardware Tagged With: android, esxi, iso, rufus, vmware

VSAN Observer RVC in vCenter Appliance 6.0 U1

06/10/2015 by Myles Gray 1 Comment

I have been working with VSAN in the lab recently and had the need to get some deeper stats on the inner operations. I had upgraded the lab to ESXi 6.0 U1 and vCenter 6.0 U1 and for the life of me couldn’t get the RVC console in the VCSA to work per the VMware […]

Filed Under: Security Tagged With: esxi, esxi 6.0, vmware, vsan, vsan observer, vsphere

Guest post for Ravello Systems

28/08/2015 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

I was recently approached to write a guest blog post for Ravello Systems on Novosco’s use of their AWS/GCE hosted ESXi labs for CI automation testing. Why not follow @mylesagray on Twitter for more like this!

Filed Under: Cloud Frameworks, Infrastructure, Virtualisation Tagged With: aws, cloud, esxi, gce, lab, ravello, vmware

Deploying Dell OpenManage on ESXi and vCenter 6

26/07/2015 by Myles Gray 3 Comments

If you’ve been reading my other posts of late, you will have gathered I’ve been building a new lab. I say “new”, the last one was a single R710 with a ReadyNas Ultra 6 attached. So essentially, this is my first REAL lab. It’s mostly based on Dell hardware; it’s cheap on eBay, I like […]

Filed Under: Hardware, Infrastructure, Software, Virtualisation Tagged With: dell, esxi, omivv, openmanage, update manger, vcenter, vmware, vsphere 6, vUM

vSphere HA Configuration fails: Operation Timed Out

22/07/2015 by Myles Gray 4 Comments

I recently rebuilt my lab and added 2x new ESXi hosts, I re-used my old single host in the process which I upgraded from ESXi 5.5 to 6.0 and patched to the same level as the new hosts. Everything was working as expected until it came for the time to enable HA. My old host […]

Filed Under: Infrastructure, Networks, Virtualisation Tagged With: esxi, ha, jumbo frame, ssl, vcenter, vmware

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