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  • Cloud Assembly VM Guest Management With Ansible

    Aug 1, 2019 ansible cloud assembly
    Cloud Assembly VM Guest Management With Ansible

    VMware Cloud Automation Services is a product suite comprising three products, Cloud Assembly, Service Broker and Code Stream. Cloud Assembly provides a blueprinting engine and manages connectivity to multiple cloud endpoints. Service Broker provides a unified catalog for publishing blueprints with role-based policies. …

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  • NSX-T for Planespotter

    Feb 14, 2019 nsx flask planespotter
    NSX-T for Planespotter

    Moving towards application centric infrastructure suitable for microservices applications requires a good example application to work with. I saw an NSX demo presented by Yves Fauser where he used just such an application called planespotter. My first task towards understanding this more was to get this setup in my …

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  • Controlling NSX-T with Terraform

    Jan 7, 2019 nsx terraform
    Controlling NSX-T with Terraform

    Hashicorp Terraform is a tool which enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure by defining its configuration as code. VMware NSX-T is a product which enables software defined network infrastructure. The Terraform NSX-T provider allows us to deliver and maintain NSX-T configuration …

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  • NSX-T for OpenShift

    Jul 28, 2018 nsx openshift kubernetes
    NSX-T for OpenShift

    While looking at the various documentation sets I found it difficult to understand the NSX-T and OpenShift integration. A lot was masked by configuration performed by Ansible scripts. Here I try and record my understanding of the technology and then work through getting this running in a capacity constrained lab …

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  • Calling the NSX REST API with vRO and Navigating The XML Response

    Jun 20, 2018 nsx vro rest
    Calling the NSX REST API with vRO and Navigating The XML Response

    While the NSX for vSphere plugin for vRealize Orchestrator is useful, occasionally there are limitations. For example when creating an NSX Edge Services Gateway we use this method. NSXEdgeTrinityBasicController.createEdgeV4 That method returns void, so next you need to make a second method call using filter by name to …

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  • VCDX6-DCV Defence Experience

    Jun 7, 2018 vcdx
    VCDX6-DCV Defence Experience

    In 2013 I was a systems engineer, I worked mostly on automation scripting for consistently delivering virtualized infrastructure on VMware. A job I’d enjoyed but was ready to move my career forwards, my at the time colleague Richard Dowling and I started looked into pursuing advanced VMware certification. In …

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  • VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Design

    Jun 7, 2018 vcap
    VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Design

    Having passed the VCAP5-DCD exam with little to no studying only eighteen months ago and VCIX6-NV since. All things considered I was pretty confident of doing well in the VCAP6-DCV Design exam, and when I completed exam I was pretty sure I’d passed. To my surprise I failed the exam with a 285, to make matters …

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  • VMware Data Encryption At Rest

    Apr 13, 2018 encryption vsan vsphere
    VMware Data Encryption At Rest

    Encryption of data at rest is a requirement for many customers, with VMware hosted Virtual Machines (VMs) there are two ways to achieve this. VM data can be encrypted using vSAN whole-datastore encryption or using Storage Policy (VMcrypt). Both VM Encryption and vSAN Encryption require a Key Management Interoperability …

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  • vRealize Orchestrator NSX Plug-in Troubleshooting

    Feb 6, 2018 nsx vro
    vRealize Orchestrator NSX Plug-in Troubleshooting

    The NSX-V Plug-in for vRealize Orchestrator offers some great functionally, however creating custom workflows caused me some headaches. When building some custom workflows using the vRO API explorer there are inconsistencies, I’ve learned to not rely on the vRO API explorer for NSX plug-in documentation and …

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  • Controlling vSphere & NSX-V With Python

    May 15, 2017 nsx python
    Controlling vSphere & NSX-V With Python

    My former colleagues had made me aware of pyVmomi an open source library which VMware provide and mostly maintain for managing vSphere, so its here I shall start. Since then NSX for vSphere has also an open source library NSX RAML Client provided by VMware so I’ll then move to that. I am performing this learning …

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Darryl Cauldwell

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