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Change VMTools Upgrade Policy with Ansible

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…

By vNoob, 1 yearApril 6, 2024 ago
Ansible

Running Ansible Playbooks against vSphere

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…

By vNoob, 1 yearMarch 9, 2024 ago
Kubernetes

Tanzu Homelab: Deploy Tanzu

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…

By vNoob, 2 yearsAugust 15, 2023 ago
Kubernetes

Tanzu Homelab: Deploy HAProxy

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…

By vNoob, 2 yearsAugust 15, 2023 ago
Kubernetes

Tanzu Homelab: Deploy pfSense

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…

By vNoob, 2 yearsAugust 15, 2023 ago
Kubernetes

Tanzu Homelab: Network Planning

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…

By vNoob, 2 yearsAugust 15, 2023 ago
Kubernetes

Tanzu Homelab: Storage Policy and Content Library

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…

By vNoob, 2 yearsAugust 15, 2023 ago
vSphere

Upgrade VMware Workstation hosted VCSA

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…

By vNoob, 3 yearsNovember 28, 2022 ago
vSphere

NSX’s TOFU remembers your IP forever

I had a frustrating issue recently where I was creating security groups in NSX, and I noticed that under the IP section of the groups it had more IPs than the one IP assigned to the VM. For the purposes of this post, let’s say the 240 IP is the Read more…

By vNoob, 5 yearsNovember 5, 2020 ago
vSphere

Installing ESXi Raspberry Pi

Like a lot of the VMware community, I bought a Raspberry Pi immediately when the announcement was made ESXionArm was out. I ordered an 8GB model here are the steps I went through to get it up and running. For the full documentation, please check out the fling site. I Read more…

By vNoob, 5 yearsOctober 20, 2020 ago

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