VMUG, AVS – Warsaw, June 2022
This year I had an opportunity to do presentation around current status of AVS (and also in comparison to other VMware implementation in Public Cloud). Below you can find my presentation. I am working to publish my screen recordings as well. This presentation is in Polish, but anyway, I am …
Kilka uwag odnośnie vmtools
VMtools stanowią bardzo istotny element infrastruktury VMware, często pomijamy czy traktowany mniej poważnie. Tymczasem jest to bardzo istotny element (tak, powiedziałem to jeszcze raz) środowiska który w równym stopniu co cała reszta odpowiada za jego stabilność i bezawaryjność. Z tego względu warto zapoznać się z ich instalacją i utrzymaniem. Ponieważ …
Configure VPN tunnel between pfsense appliance and VMware VMC.
If you are playing around the VMC soon or later you will need or you would like to configure VPN network connectivity. Direct Connect is fantastic, but I suppose not everyone can afford to buy it for your home/lab connection 🙂 Especially most of the production implementations are around BGP, …
AWS Directory Service for Cloud Director Service
CDS – Cloud Director Services – SaaS implementation of Cloud Director for VMware Cloud Providers that can be connected to VMware in AWS (VMC) and provide the interface to the customer to manage their infrastructure. CDS is a brilliant service which saves a lot of time when compared to the …
VMC, why and how to migrate to, HCX(!)
There are plenty of articles on why to migrate to VMC (VMware on AWS). But I am also facing so many trivial questions, even from people operating VMware on-prem every day. Typical question is why not migrate to the native cloud, or even to the virtual systems that are running …
Deploy and use standalone edge for VPN L2 in VMC.
For VMC you can create one VPN Layer 2. There are 3 ways to configure L2 by deploying appropriate appliances: Deploy autonomous edge Deploy HCX L2 extensions Deploy standalone edge Autonomous edge: It is quite easy when you are using the NSX Autonomous edge. There are several well described steps …
HCX – trochę teorii, modele licencyjne, jak go wykorzystać.
HCX – trochę teorii, modele licencyjne, jak go wykorzystać. To jest pierwszy z serii artykułów na temat HCX – w mojej opinii jednej z najciekawszych technologii którą w tej chwili VMware ma w ofercie. W kolejnych chciałbym się skupić na: HCX, Implementacja w połączeniu z VMC HCX, Modele migracji, jak …
vmkfstools – command options
Inspiration for today’s article is a fantastic documentation of the vmkfstools founded here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-0AC9C948-4D0A-4634-99B8-E10CC09EFE47.html vmkfstools is a cli command you can find on every ESXi host. As with everything but you always need to be careful when using it because you can potentially easily delete or mess around with your …
Virtual System fails to start on ESXi with “no space left on the device” message.
In a very rare situation VM can fails to start because of the swap file issue. Basically, VMware philosophy is to maintain for each virtual machine the swap file. This file is being used while the ESXi memory contention. Hypervisor should always guarantee that your system will always be up …
vRealize Orchestrator for beginners and not only (part 2/2).
If you were following my guide „vRealize Orchestrator for beginners and not only (part 1/2)” as well as other guides available over the Internet, you already have running environment. Now, let’s connect vRealize Orchestrator to vCenter and deploy new workflow. If you will be willing to follow this guide to …