Month: November 2022

Deploy VCF 4.5 Lab on AMD Ryzen – Part 3

Featured by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in NSX, vSphere

In last two parts, we had seen how to setup base VMs and Infrastructure to prepare for VCF Bringup. In 2nd part, we had gone over SDDC Bringup process and issues I had encountered during deployment. In this last part, we will cover how to deploy Edge cluster in SDDC Manager to be used for either AVN, Workload Management or Custom. This is where it gets tricky as Edge VMs get stuck in Registration Pending state due to AMD Ryzen CPU, so we will see how to get past this.

Link to Other two parts in this series –

Let’s start deploying VCF 4.5 on our lab environment.

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Why vSAN and vVols are Best for VMware Cloud…

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

This document discuss benefits of using #vSAN and vVOLs with #VMware #VCF

Why vSAN and vVols are Best for VMware Cloud…

This document covers the value that HCI with vSAN, vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols)-enabled SAN/NAS, and traditional SAN/NAS bring to Cloud Foundation. The best way to summarize it is “good, better, best” where traditional SAN/NAS is good, vVols is better, and vSAN delivers the best value with […]

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Introducing the New VMware SD-WAN Client for…

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

Introducing the New VMware SD-WAN Client for…

Today at VMware Explore Europe, we are announcing a new offering in our award-winning, market-leading SD-WAN platform. To answer the need for remote SD-WAN access without a hardware SD-WAN edge, VMware is introducing the software-based VMware SD-WAN Client, to be available soon.

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Deploy VCF 4.5 Lab on AMD Ryzen – Part 2

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in NSX, vSphere

In first part, we had seen how to setup base VMs and Infrastructure to prepare for VCF Bringup. In 2nd part, I am going to cover SDDC Bringup process and issues I have encountered during deployment. Link to first part is down below. It also has a sample JSON file, which I have used to cut on comonents to save on precious compute and storage in a lab environment.

Let’s start deploying VCF 4.5 on our lab environment.

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Getting Started with NSX Application Platform…

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

Getting Started with NSX Application Platform…

A quick guide on getting started with our high-performance security analytics platform, NSX Application Platform (NAPP).

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What’s new in VMware Aria Operations – October…

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

What’s new in VMware Aria Operations – October…

The latest release for VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations Cloud) is now available! There have been quite a few leaps forward in many areas of VMware Aria Operations including sustainability, certificate monitoring, NSX-T support, VMware Cloud on AWS outposts, public clouds, […]

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Deploy VCF 4.5 Lab on AMD Ryzen – Part 1

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in NSX, vSphere

This is a very delayed post which was roaming in my head for a long time. I always wanted to deploy a fully functional lab for VCF on my home system to play around with API and automation. There is execellent tool VLC (VCF Lab Constructor) which will help you prepare base infrastructure and deploy VCF to play around with. But in my case, it is bit different as I am using VMware Workstation and wanted to experience bring up process. In this multi part series, I will cover how to deploy VCF and then Edge Cluster to have a functional Consolidated Management Domain.

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