I believe it was last year when I first heard about Project Keswick and how VMware wanted to streamline and change how ESXi hosts are deployed at the edge. It sounded cool and exciting, and I made a note to Read more…
In the last post, we got Tanzu configured, however, before we can get any services deployed there are a few more items we need set up. The first is getting a Namespace setup, followed by permissions and storage. Fortunately, all Read more…
Now for the moment of truth, it is time to deploy Tanzu. Assuming all the prerequisites are configured correct, this is actually a pretty straightforward process. Start by going to Workload Management, this is under the main vCenter navigation pane. Read more…
With Tanzu requiring either NSX or HAProxy in order to be deployed, I decided HAProxy would probably be the smaller lift for my smaller home lab. After walking through what networking requirements are needed for HAProxy we should be ready Read more…
For my requirements, pfSense is going to be the router for the second network which will be the workload network. This translates to pfSense having two nics. One nic will be on my main home network, and the second nic Read more…
The Tanzu Quickstart guide does a good job of outlining the IPs needed, and sizing considerations for the workload subnet. I chose to do /24 subnet for my workload network because it is the easiest one for me to manage. Read more…
This post references the QuickStart guide heavily. The Quickstart guide also has some scripts for some of these sections to speed up the deployment process. Wanting to become familiar with the whole deployement process, I elected to skip the scripted Read more…
Deploying Tanzu in my homelab has been something I have been wanting to do for a while, for the longest time however, the effort to get it deployed and figure out the networking components seemed too big an obstacle…..and procrastination. Read more…
Even though the process hasn’t changed much from 7.0, I thought I would post my walkthrough of how I deployed my vSphere Center 8.0 to my home lab on VMware Workstation. After downloading the VCSA ISO, I first mounted the Read more…
Toward the end of December I was able to pass my CKA exam. I wanted to take some time to share some tips which I think will help someone who is preparing CKA exam. Some of these tips will also Read more…