VCF Automation: Understanding the Difference Between All-Apps and VM-Apps
Automation in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) plays a central role in enabling consistent, repeatable infrastructure and application deployments. As environments evolve toward more modern application architectures, VMware has introduced different automation models to support both traditional virtual machine workloads and modern application stacks. Two key deployment models in VCF Automation are All-Apps and VM-Apps. Understanding…
Building Virtual Appliances with OVF Properties and GuestInfo
I’m currently working on building virtual appliances that require configuration inputs during deployment. There are several ways to create a virtual appliance (I’ll cover those methods in a future post). One simple and effective approach is: In this post, I’ll focus on how to add deployment-time inputs (OVF properties) and how to reliably read them…
VMware Holodeck 9.0.2
If you want to play around with VMware Cloud Foundation, the perfect place is to use Holodeck. Note: This requires a subscription to use this, the Holodeck is free, but the binaries, that is used for the deployment of VCF requires a download token that has permissions to download VCF binaries. This is a complete…
Using LACP in VCF 9 deployment
When using the VCF Planning and Preparation Workbook excel spreadsheet, you can not choose to use LACP and LAGs for your network design and deployment you will have to configure that your self in the JSON file, used for deployment. I use the VCF Planning and Preparation Workbook and the VCF.JSONgenerator powershell scripts to generate the JSON…
VMware ESXi 8.0 Free Edition
VMware by Broadcom has released a new ESXi free edition. with the the latest 8.03e version, that got realeased today. Download here According to William Lam this comes with a build in non expiring license key that has the same feature like the old free edition. See Linked in blog by William here See the…
Aria Automation Cloud Template Sample 1
I have a custom that needed to have a Cloud template where it was possible to use both automatic and static IP assignment for the network on the deployment of VM’s The requirements for this is to configured Network Profiles and also have configured IP Ranges on the networks. The static Assigned address needs to…
VMware has Released NSX 4.2
VMware by Broadcom has released NSX 4.2 What’s new: See the full release notes here.
VMware Aria Suite 8.18 Released
VMware by Broadcom has released VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18, VMware Aria Automation 8.18, VMware Aria Operations 8.18, VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.18 and VMware Aria Operations for Networks 8.13. Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18 I do not like that deprecation of the connection to “My VMware or Customer Connect” this was a great feature…
VMware vCloud Foundation 5.2 Released
VMware by Broadcom has released VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2. Personal note: This i a stepping stone release for the next version, properly version 6.0, where there will be many major changes, including major upgrade of UI. NOTE July 24th 2024: Before upgrading please read the release notes for know issues and other. There is important…
VMware VCF and changing DNS server
I was trying to change DNS servers in an VMware Cloud Foundation environment, but I ran into some problems. The first problem was that the customer already had removed access to the old DNS server, so the SDDC Manager could not talk to the vCenter. I tried to make the change in the OVF properties…