With the addition of the new PowerShell module VMware.CloudFoundation.Reporting, it’s now easier than ever to create custom reports to prepare for an upcoming VCF upgrade or to provide to members of your infrastructure group. There are a lot more functions built into this module but for the sake of this post I will be focusing…
Category: VCF
Automate VCF 4 Cluster Expansion using vROps & vRO
Purpose: When most organizations discuss the benefits of public cloud a bullet point that tends to stand out as most intriguing is the auto scaling functionality that can be utilized during times of prime resource contention/utilization. Have you wanted to replicate the feature with your VCF deployment on-prem under your private cloud without the need…
vSAN On-Disk Format Version
WHAT IS IT? The on-disk format version of vSAN is much like a VMs Hardware Version or a Distributed Switches Version. In which to take advantage of the updated features of the updated release of vSphere, these versions must be upgraded aswell in order to match the vSphere version you are running. As a note,…
VCF PSA: Do not Modify NSX-T Transport Profiles!
Update: The manually created TNP issue has been resolved in VCF v. 3.10 and users are recommended to update to that version. Patch however is still available through GSS for v 3.9 users. If you’re anything like me, you like to rename most objects whether its default user names, port groups, datastores, etc., in order…
VMware Lab Constructor
VMware Lab Constructor (VLC) is a scripted method to auto deploy a nested VMware VCF implementation of 1:many vSphere hosts. Its meant to be deployed on non-production (can also be unsupported) hardware. I went through the process to deploy it on a single Dell PowerEdge R630 and documented it below. If you have any questions,…