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  • Programaticly configuring VMware Storage Profile API with Python

    Aug 12, 2020 python vsan vsphere
    Programaticly configuring VMware Storage Profile API with Python

    I was looking to programaticly configuring VMware Storage Profile recently. My scripting language of choice is Python, VMware maintain pyVmomi is which is the Python SDK for the VMware vSphere API. pyVmomi can be used to form binding and configure the vSphere Web Services API and the VMware Storage Policy API. The …

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  • vSphere with Kubernetes Homelab Build

    Apr 29, 2020 tanzu kubernetes vsphere
    vSphere with Kubernetes Homelab Build

    I’d been exploring Project Pacific during its beta in my homelab for a while. When vSphere 7 and NSX-T 3.0 went GA I took chance to rebuild lab and consolidate much of the configuration I’d been applying iteratively. My lab hardware specification is a constraint so I’ve had to deviate from …

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  • Cloudbased-init For vSphere

    Sep 26, 2019 vm guest customization cloudbased-init vra vsphere
    Cloudbased-init For vSphere

    vRealize Automation Cloud and 8.x allows you to deploy and configure cloud agnostic virtual machines. To achieve agnostic in-guest OS customization capability across for on-premises vSphere, AWS, GCP and Azure endpoints cloud-init is used for Linux guests and cloudbase-init is used for Windows guests. Inital Attempt …

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  • Understanding VMware Guest OS Customization

    Sep 11, 2019 vm guest customization cloud-init vra vsphere
    Understanding VMware Guest OS Customization

    I recently began looking more closely at cloud-init for customizing VMware guest VMs. This caused me some heachaches! I took various notes while troubleshooting and researching around this. Why Guest OS Customization Is Needed When you clone a virtual machine or deploy a virtual machine from a template it clones the …

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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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  • Installing vSphere Integrated Containers In Five Minutes

    Jul 13, 2016 docker vsphere
    Installing vSphere Integrated Containers In Five Minutes

    As it looks like vSphere Integrated Containers will feature a lot at the upcoming VMworld I took the chance to install this and find out more. The documentation available on isn’t extensive, but, contains all I needed to know and I think benefits from being to the point. The files needed to set this up are …

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  • vRealize Orchestrator 7 (vRO) Install

    Jun 14, 2016 vro vsphere
    vRealize Orchestrator 7 (vRO) Install

    While attempting to setup vRealize Orchestrator 7 at home it soon became clear the documentation isn’t great after much flipping between documents and blog posts I got this installed and working. Here I are the steps I followed. Deploy vRealize Orchestrator Deploy the OVA via web client and specify network …

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  • Create VMware Virtual Machine Templates

    May 17, 2016 vm guest customization vsphere
    Create VMware Virtual Machine Templates

    When creating virtual machine templates I’d like to do this consistently as such I’ll try and keep this post up to date with the settings I am including. CentOS 7 New custom VM named CentOS7, hardware version 11, guest operating system Linux version ‘CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64-bit)’. We’d like a …

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  • Project Bonneville - vSphere Integrated Containers

    Oct 6, 2015 docker vsphere
    Project Bonneville - vSphere Integrated Containers

    Working for a company which develops software for business I’ve been keen on following the story of containers unfold. The explosion of containers and microservices in the software development space has been a revolution in the way applications can be architected and deployed. This has put a great deal of power …

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  • VMware Projects Fargo (VMFork) & Meteor

    Oct 6, 2015 docker vsphere
    VMware Projects Fargo (VMFork) & Meteor

    There was announced during VMworld a technology preview for Project Fargo (formerly VMFork) it is likely this will be launched with vSphere6. The aim of Fargo is to provides a fast, scalable differential clone of a running VM. I see this as very similar to Redirect-on-Write (RoW) methodology used by NetApp snapshots …

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