Shutdown and Online VMware operations manager 8.12 cluster via API Postman
Kad Below you can see my cluster is Online within vrop admin Open postman, change the URL to POST, add the below URL next to POST but replace the ip address…
Lower fan noise on a Dell PowerEdge R720
I have a dell poweredge server r720, I ran the following commands to lower fan noise in my home lab. ssh to the idrac racadm set system.thermalsettings.FanSpeedOffset 255 racadm set…
Deploy and setup an ESXi vSAN witness.
What is a vSAN witness host? The vSAN witness host is basically an ESXi host that does not store VM data, It stores the witness components for each VM object…
Installing VMware Integrated OpenStack on a Single Host Pt3 (VIO)
Nick Deploying VIO After the prior 2 parts we should now have all the basic requirements prepared in order to deploy our OpenStack instance. Throughout this part we will be deploying…
Upgrade VCF from 4.5.1 to 5.0.0.0
This blog is a walk-through upgrading from VCF 4.5.1 to VCF 5, my environment is nested using an advanced VLC build. The VCF build is running on my DELL PowerEdge…
Setting up vCenter High Availability (vcha) on vSAN
In this blog I am going through setting up vCenter HA on a 4 vSAN hosts cluster and testing failure by powering off the ESXi host with the primary vCenter…
Installing VMware Integrated OpenStack on a Single Host Pt2 (NSX-T)
Now that we have our resource cluster created the next step will be to integrate NSX-T into the resource cluster, deploy our edges and create some OpenStack Specific Objects. Within…
Layer 2 (L2) Edge bridge with VMware cloud foundation (VCF)
Layer 2 (L2) edge bridge allows virtual machines to communicate via layer 2 and establishes a bridge between sites. This can be use for migrating virtual machines between sites for…
Walk through upgrading VCF from 4.4.1.1 to 4.5.1.0
Below is my current version that matches 4.4.1.1. I have already uploaded my bundles to sddc manager and configured a custom esxi iso. Should always upgrade the management domain first.…
Installing vCenter on a new vSAN environment OR your first host
So, the scenario is you have built your first ESXi host that will be a part of a vSAN cluster and you want to put that new vCenter you built…