In this post we intend to explore vSphere with Tanzu and why the product is interesting for customers to choose, compared to running Kubernetes in a manual setup maintaining it by your self or choosing another solution to orchestrate the orchestrator Kubernetes, for
This post describes how a backup of the PostgreSQL database for Cloud Director can be setup to be scheduled and automated
In the VMware documentation there is only a description on how one could take a manual backup of the Postgres DB. In normal Operations it can
Problem: You can’t find the advanced vSAN setting ’SwapThickProvisionDisabled’ that you want to check/set to make sure all vSAN swap objects/files get thinly provisioned.
Solution: This setting has been moved to the UI in vSphere Client, called ’Thin
So in this post I wanted to describe how a setup with Cloud Director 10.1 with embedded PostgreSQL DB can be set to automatic failover. As described in VMware documentation see Link
So starting with VMware Cloud Director 10.1 the automatic failover functionality
In this short post I wanted to describe a procedure on how you should put you Cloud Director 10.1 appliances with the embedded PostgreSQL DB into maintenance mode.
Both for the VCD Service and also the DB to be moved if the cell
VMware has released a critical security patch for vCenter Server 6.7 named VMSA-2020-006. It has a CVSS score of 10, which is all you really need to know to get a sense of the urgency to install this patch. The short version of our recommendation is therefore
In December, VMware posted a security bulletin VMSA-2019-0022 which describes a serious vulnerability in ESXi 6.x (and Horizon DaaS, but that is not covered in this blog post) that allows an attacker
Problem: On a newly installed NSX-T 2.5 Bare Metal Edge node, you can only see 3 available physical NICs/uplinks, even though your physical server has 4 of them installed and connected. (Or 7 uplinks if you have 8
Hi! In this post I will detail the process of what is needed inorder to consume network resources from NSX-T Data Center. As of today with vCloud Director 10 and NSX-T 2.5 there are restrictions, requirements and design decisions that are related to both vCloud Director and NSX-T that
Problem: When installing a Bare Metal NSX-T 2.x Edge from the ISO (as described here), you aren’t asked to set passwords for the ‘root’ and ‘admin’ accounts.
