I started off with VCF 3.7.1 in order to get a few upgrade options towards (then) 3.8. Now that 3.8.1 has been announced, we get even more upgrade options. One thing to realize is that upgrading is a step-by-step approach. If I look at the release notes for the different versions, I see the following: …
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After another redeploy of VCF, I decided that before I create a new WLD based on NSX-T (which failed twice already), I would create some snapshots of the MD hosts, so that I would be able to return to a state that is valid (without a WLD in error-state and/or other messy stuff). I would …
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We saw the history of VCF (Building a VMware Cloud with VCF (a short history)), deployment of the Management Domain (Deploying VMware http://vmwa.re/nestedesxiCloud Foundation – Management Domain) and the Management of VCF (Managing VMware Cloud Foundation - First Look), so now it is time to deploy the first Workload Domain (WLD). Since we are running …
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Now that we have a Management Domain (MD) with all components running in them, let's take a look at the environment. We know that the Cloud Builder VM (CB-VM) was responsible for bringing up the Management Domain, but after this job, it is basically finished. We thank it for its service and can dismiss the …
Continue reading Managing VMware Cloud Foundation – First Look
After the theory (Building a VMware Cloud with VCF (a short history)), it is time to dive into the technical stuff. Let's deploy us some VCF! VMware Cloud Foundation is deployed in multiple steps. Since you are deploying an environment that has dependencies on itself, there is one tool that you can use, to help …
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After playing around with NSX-T for a while (and that certainly hasn't stopped), I wanted to take a look into VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). VCF is in the heart of VMware's vision for the future. In the olden days, all companies who started working with VMware's virtualization software had to deploy this completely manual. And …
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Now that we have learned the theory in Microsegmentation with NSX-T (part 1: methodology), we can look at the application of this methodology in practice. Methodology in action So after all this, let's see a little bit of this methodology in action. First of all, it is important to know which traffic is flowing in …
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