No, the “dot” is not a typ-o, I’ll explain in a minute. First let me take you back to the situation I found myself in about a year ago. I was working as a Technical Account/Adoption Manager (TAM) at VMware which had been acquired by Broadcom a year before that. In my head, I was still a part of VMware and I was waiting it out to see what the acquisition by Broadcom would entail for both my customers, colleagues,…
After building my Nutanix CE cluster (https://my-sddc.net/new-tech-nutanix-ce/), it is time to start looking at the Enterprise capabilities. For this, we will be leveraging Prism Central. Installation of Prism Central is very easy, but there are some requirements. They are detailed in: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-vpc_2024_3_1:mul-cmsp-overview-pc-c.html. I am aiming for this setup: Just a heads up, I deliberately chose to document all the things I did to get to the end result. In my case, that meant: But in the end, it brought me…
After playing around with HPE VM Essentials (and a little bit of Morpheus), the next vendor I will be taking a closer look at, is Nutanix. They have been a long and strong partner for PQR and in the past (before I moved to VMware) I even held some Nutanix certifications. But that is a long time ago, so I am treating this as a completely new product. I will be using an excellent blog that already partially describes the…
After completing my previous blog https://my-sddc.net/new-tech-vm-essentials-a-more-serious-deployment/ there have been some developments. One of which is the fact that HPE came out with a new verion, another is that I learned there is an integrated installation available. This includes both Ubuntu 24.04 and the new version of HPE VME (version 8.0.8). The file I am using for installation is called “HVM_Install_24.04.ISO_8.0.8_S5Q83-11031.iso” After powering on, the installation screen is a little different, it now says “HVM Install 24.04”: And also the screens…
After creating a fairly simple, but working HPE VM Essentials deployment (see https://my-sddc.net/new-tech-hpe-morpheus-vme/), it’s time to make a more serious deployment. In the previous blog I took networking and storage for granted, but in real life scenarios, those topics need a more serious approach. So I am making a “design” for a small customer, that will have three VME hosts, use iSCSI, NFS ánd local storage for their VM’s and use VLAN’s to differentiate between different traffic flows. I am…
VCF9 is here and I want to look at it. That said, I have some older hardware, so I am not sure if I will be able to run VCF9 on it. But let’s explore. Disclaimer: This is unsupported, and there is a reason for that. So don’t do this in production (of course, a nested environment would also not be used in production, but you get my drift). Install vCenter Server and Upgrade physical host First step is to…
Introduction Well, okay, for mé it’s new Tech. And this may well be a new series, because there is more out there, now that I am working at a partner. Since I left Broadcom at the beginning of the year, the scope of product technology has changed. I am still very much an advocate and a fan of VMware products, because the technology in private cloud is (in my opinion) still unmatched, but there are alternatives out there. And working…
Today I tried this exam. I had done some preparation and for anyone else trying this exam, a couple of pointers that were critical for me to get to a passing score. Of course, you also need to know the stuff about a lot of other things, but for me, that knowledge was already there. I am talking about the more regular NSX stuff, like: Installation, Transport Nodes, Edge Nodes, Switching and Routing. So the following were some of the…
The Holodeck Lab is up and running and some of the components have been replaced by pfSense. This has been described in a couple of blogs. Now it’s time to start working on the use cases I wanted to explore with this lab. The first one is doing Multi Tenancy with VRFs within NSX. Firstly, the topology I am planning to implement: If you look carefully, I am planning to create two distinctly different network topologies, within the same NSX…
So, after the first two blogs, about the initiation of the Holodeck lab (https://my-sddc.net/holodeck-lab-building-the-lab/) and the first part of replacing some components with a pfSense appliance (https://my-sddc.net/holodeck-lab-replacing-networking-with-pfsense/), we now go a little deeper into the networking stuff. We are going to get BGP to work on the pfSense. Goal is to achieve the following topology: The NSX part of this has already been configured, as part of the Holodeck deployment. I grabbed the BGP configuration from the Cloud Builder appliance,…