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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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Deploy VCF 4.5 Lab on AMD Ryzen – Part 2

November 9, 2022November 24, 2022 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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Deploy VCF 4.5 Lab on AMD Ryzen – Part 1

November 2, 2022November 24, 2022 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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Script to add Tag to multiple VMs

August 9, 2021July 21, 2022 by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in vSphere

What happens if you need to add a tag to multiple Virtual Machine in vCenter server. Well one way to do is go to vCenter and add it manually by going to individual Virtual Machine. Or fun way to do it, create a Powershell script. In my case, it was couple hundred Virtual Machines, so I went with 2nd option. Follow on to read more.

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Decoding PSOD (Purple Screen of Death) of ESXi to find initial cause of crash

February 15, 2019February 19, 2019 by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in Troubleshooting Series

What is the VMkernel?

The VMkernel is the operating system core of ESX/ESXi. The kernel handles resource scheduling and device IO. Device IO is handled by the VMware network and storage stacks, which serves as a layer between the virtual file system, network devices and the device drivers that control physical devices.

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