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Holodeck LAB: Upgrading to VCF9 (on unsupported hardware)

Holodeck LAB: Upgrading to VCF9 (on unsupported hardware)

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…

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vRealize Network Insight Cloud installation and configuration

vRealize Network Insight Cloud installation and configuration

As a vExpert you get some perks. Some of those are very useful, like a Cloud instance of vRNI (https://cloud.vmware.com/network-insight). I have been using vRNI for a while in my (companies) lab/demo environment and found it very nice to work with and to demo as well. The “problem” with it, is that (as always) resources are scarce and vRNI asks quite a lot of that. The medium installation for 5.0 asks: And: Especially the amount of resources that the Platform…

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