HobbitCloud has been enjoying somewhat of an infrastructure refresh recently, with the entire estate being renamed and Windows Servers migrating to 2016 and 2019. Part of this project was to increase resilience in my on-premise data warehouse by implementing a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availability Group (AAG) running on Windows Server Core. Continue reading
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Where to find me at VMworld 2018 US
This year I shall be attending VMworld 2018 US in Las Vegas, 26-30 August. If you’re interested in where I’ll be and what I’ll be up to, read on!
Configuring Hybrid Linked Mode between VMConAWS and a multi-site on-premises environment
A few weeks ago, I joined the VMware Cloud on AWS VMUG Community and entered a contest to win one month of free Single-Host SDDC. I was lucky enough to be selected as one of the winners. Before I start with the post, I would like to thank the team for selecting me and giving me the opportunity to test this solution. Continue reading
Removing failed clusters from Pivotal Container Service
Recently I decided to move my cloud native workloads from my primary datacentre in Utrecht to the secondary in Southport, UK. After getting NSX-T up and running in my nested compute cluster, it was time to begin the installation of Pivotal Container Service (PKS). As PKS 1.1 had just been released, it made sense to go with the latest version. Continue reading
Moving vRealize Automation blueprints between environments with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 1.2
When large enterprises deploy a cloud management platform like VMware vRealize Automation, they often have a number of different environments. To ensure best practices, blueprints and orchestration scripts are created in development before being tested in another environment, before finally being transported into Continue reading
Deploying Kubernetes with vRealize Automation
A number of customers are very excited about the upcoming release of PKS. However, some are itching to get started with Kubernetes today, and are wondering how they can leverage VMware’s Cloud Management Platform, vRealize Automation, to do so. In this post I will show how you can design a blueprint which with two clicks can deploy a Kubernetes cluster for your users. Continue reading
I’ll be speaking at the UK VMUG UserCon on Thursday 16 November
Next Thursday the UK VMUG UserCon will be held at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham. This is a jam-packed event with speakers covering a wide-range of topics such as digital transformation, end-user computing, containerisation and of course, automation. Continue reading
Building containerized apps through vRealize Automation
As a cloud admin, you need a certain toolset to get the job done. Occasionally these tools are not readily available, or updated ones are released and you need to be able to consume them without too much fuss. Running these apps as containers are often a great way to achieve this, and by far the best way of provisioning them is though vRealize Automation. Continue reading
Vulnerability scanning with VMware Harbor 1.2 and Clair – Part 1: Building Harbor
At VMworld 2017 VMware announced the latest release of vSphere Integrated Containers, version 1.2. This release also included updated versions Admiral, VMware’s container management platform; and Harbor, their enterprise-class container registry. VMware makes all these products available to consume from a single OVA which can be Continue reading
“Invalid IP Address input” error when requesting a vRA blueprint via Code Stream
The other day I successfully demonstrated the power of Code Stream at the UK North-West VMUG. The Management Pack for IT DevOps (codenamed “Houdini”) migrated blueprints between Development and Production, and at the end of the session I built a pipeline for deploying a WordPress application in development. Even though the audience wouldn’t have Continue reading
