Recently as part of Tanzu Vanguard community we’ve been privileged to be introduced to VMware Tanzu Hub (previously known as Aria Hub). Personally I’ve heard about this offering already in the past as it was quite a hot topic during VMware Explore US and I guess will be the same in Barcelona. However, despite I’ve heard about it there was no chance to play and test it on my own. So taking the opportunity of Tanzu Hub Free Tier (you…
Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) provides centralized management and visibility over various K8s clusters in a multi-cloud environment. You can read more about TMC in my other article where I described it’s core feature – policy based management. As part of the other article I moved through all the steps to deploy TKG 2.4 Management cluster. Now I’ll use it to demonstrate how you can connect and further manage it via TMC. For the purpose of this demonstration I’m using SaaS…
One of the most tricky parts of vCD – networks. It took my some time to to digest how those network relations between different types of network in vCD works. Just to remind we distinguish: External Networks VDC Organization Networks vApp Networks Moreover for both VDC Orgzanization and vApp networks we distinguish folowing types: Directly connected to upper layer network Routed network Isolated Network To complicate even further vApp directly connected network can be fenced 🙂 All networks apart from…
Today new version of VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers was released. There are plenty of new features and enhancements like: vVols support Increased vCD-vCenter latensy up to 100 ms Multisite feature which lets service providers offer a single port of entry to Tenants having multiple Virtual Data Centers (Org vDC’s) in different instances of vCD Ability to manage routing between two or mogr Org vDC Networks with NSX DLR PostgreSQL database support as an externam database There are a few…
Tomorrow starts VMUG Virtual EMEA 2017 – it is a great oppportunity for all of those who missed VMworld or was not able to participate in-person or even online. It is a huge oportunity to learn about newest technology from VMware and supporting companies, play around with dedicated Hans-on labs and so on. You can register for the event here. As of VMUG website definition it is a FREE day-long event is meant to empower you through education, training, and collaboration…
In the previous part importing steps of Dukes Bank Sample Application Blueprint were described. Now it’s time to perform additional configurations steps to makes it works. (If you thought that you will be able to request sample three-tier app out of the box after you import it, you were wrong! Do not worry I overinterpreted it also when first seeing it during a training long time ago ;)) But going back to vRA Dukes Bank App – after successful import…
It is almost a tradition or habbit for me to share my experience about VMware exmination taken so far. Well, it happened, I eventually passed the VCAP6-CMA Design exam which together with previos passed VCAP6-CMA Deploy exam gave me VCIX6-CMA tiltle and badge. It looks like this:Nothing special, it was not an easy way to get it, though! The biggest problem with that IMHO is that it is and old version which is based on vRA 6.X, whilst we currently…
Have you just installed the vRealize Automation in your lab and do not know how to start the journey with services? The Dukes Bank for vSphere application might be a perfect start for you! But what is that mystery Dukes Bank application ? It is not widely known that there are let’s say “embedded” samples of multi-tiered vRealize Automation blueprints that includes multiple machine components with networking and software components. The reason that it is not known by many is…
VMware Log Insight is still one of the VMware’s products which are not widely known and used (especially in Poland). In the past Log Insight was included in vRealize Operations, nowadays it is a separate product which is available in two licensing models. The first one is per operating system image (OSI) with one flat rate for collecting logs from any server, virtual machine or hypervisor. The second model is per CPU, for one flat rate fee for collecting all…
We have received a few questions about our lab which is rather extraordinary 🙂 Some of you wanted us to publish a picture of it. Unfortunatelly, I’ve got only the old one (nowadays cables are better organised so it looks far more better). I’m sorry for the quality of the picture as well. Anyway, at this moment we are in implementation phase – the management cluster is going to be expanded to four host cluster. We are planning to implement…