I recently needed to migrate all VMs from one vCenter to another. I had planned to use the native Cross vCenter vMotion GUI, but I ran into a couple of issues. Although using it for one VM works fine-ish, using it for multiple VMs at a time becomes quite a Read more…
For any familiar with PowerCLI, this is one of the first scripts someone may learn. It is just long enough to need more than one-liner, but short enough to feel like you don’t need to be an expert. Here is one I posted on this site over a decade ago: Read more…
Normally I frequently use Powershell when it comes to vSphere automation, but lately, I have been wanting to develop tools and scripts that are user-friendly and easily reusable. With those objectives in mind, it is hard to find a better tool than Ansible playbooks. Ansible playbooks often use ssh for 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. On the Workload Management page, lets click Get Started. Select 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 to start deploying. However, as a quick review let’s look 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 will be on the workload network. The two IP addresses 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. I mentioned previously I also decided to do HAProxy in 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 deployment and do the steps manually. The first thing we 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. Earlier, this year I decided I was going to do Read more…
Upgrading VCSA is pretty straightforward, however when I recently worked toward upgrading my homelab to 8.0 I came upon a problem I wasn’t expecting. The top section outlines the existing VCSA deployment, and the bottom section defines where the VCSA is hosted. It requires this information because to upgrade the Read more…