vSAN – Remove capacity disk from disk group and make it available when required.
Kad This was done in my VCF lab on 5.2 on OSA vSAN Check de-dupe and compression is off Check your virtual machine capacity total and check your storage policy. Workout…
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Offline upload bundles transfer for VMware Cloud foundation – Prep for VCF upgrade from 4.5.2 to 5.2.1
Tested and working process in my lab current version VCF 4.5.2 and upgrading to VCF 5.2.1 using offline bundle. VCF 5.2.1 Bomhttps://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vcf/vcf-5-2-and-earlier/5-2/vcf-release-notes/vmware-cloud-foundation-521-release-notes.html#GUID-bea9c4f4-f376-4a63-9787-114a8b767ed2-en_id-0ca57a6f-9a25-40f4-d248-8489e66cf554 Offline bundleshttps://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/5.2/com.vmware.vcf.vxrail.doc/GUID-8FA44ACE-8F04-47DA-845E-E0863094F7B0.html
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…
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…
Edge build API / VyOS 1.5 configuration for VLC VCF 2024 for 172.16.x.x network
The below configuration is for VLC VMware Cloud Foundation configuration for the 172.16.x.x Network for Vyos. I decided to build another VCF instance network in my lab so I can…
SDDC Manager error – Update not possible while vcenter is in failed state. (update postgres database)
When I tried to upgrade within sddc manager I have the following message “SDDC Manager error – Update not possible while vcenter is in failed state.” I confirmed nothing is…
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.…
VMware Holodeck 1.3 Review – basically two nested VLC VCF environments side by side
I just finished installing and setting up holodeck in my lab environment, this is basically two nested VMware cloud foundations (VCF) environments. I wont go into installing it as the…