Create a new workload domain in VCF 5.2 via GUI
Kader I’ll be following the following configuration mgmt, overlay – vds1 – vmnic0, vmnic1 vsan, vmotion – vds2 – vmnic2, vmnic3 Datacenter name and vsan datastore name are not an option…
Example JSON for VCF 5.2 deployment for cloud builder – lab
The main thing in this json is that only one nsx-t manager (this can be modified to include the other nsx-t managers) will be deploy and no license keys have…
Delete a task in sddc manager
In sddc manager click on the task Get the id in the url ssh to sddc manager Login as vcf Su Run the following with the id obtain from above…
Resize NSX-T edges in a VCF SDDC environment (Tested on VCF 4.5.1, 5.2, 5.1)
Prechecks Take an NSX-T Manager backup via SFTP – this will backup the edges as well. Ensure NSX is healthy. NSX UI, System > Fabric > Nodes > Edge Transport…
Adding additional hosts to an existing cluster in SDDC Manager GUI – VCF 5.2
Now supports more than two nics hosts need to commissioned into sddc manager Login to sddc manager Under inventory, click workload domains, click your workload domain, click clusters, click the…
Quick notes for ESXi prep for VCF bring-up
-Configure network for the 5 esxi hosts via vsphere client- vlan, ip, subnet mask, gateway, dns, fqdn-make the virtual machine network same vlan as management-mark disks as all flash if…
Fix a NSXT edge mismatch via api (tested on NSX-T 3.2)
example - The ip address below is the nsx-t manager vip and id was obtained from the nsx-t manager gui for the edges. I used postman. #State should show edge…
Convert vcf-ems-deployment-parameter .xlsx to .json for VCF cloud builder (VCF 5.1.1 tested)
This process is to convert the build sheet you use for the vcf bring up during a vcf deployment from the excel format .xlsx to .json. You can do this…
Cloud Foundation 5.0 using the Holodeck – DNS Entries
Ray After adding few extra VLANs to the Holodeck setup, i wanted to create additional DNS entries, the Holodeck setup is running maradns so it was pretty easy to add the…
Cloud Foundation 5.0 using the Holodeck – additional VLANs for other usecases
Recently i was playing around with Holodeck and i wanted to expand the setup with additional VLANS, after messing around with cloud-builder (L3 interfaces), finally managed to add few extra…