Daniel Micanek virtual Blog – Like normal Dan, but virtual.
While updating and testing my Automated Lab Deployment Script for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), I often found myself checking whether the bringup process has completed or not using the Cloud Builder UI. Ideally, I could configure some type of notification that would alert me immediately when […]
Slow but steady. That’s how I would describe the pace and progress around making SDDC.Lab version 6 the new default and recommended version of the project. If you’re not familiar with the SDDC.Lab project, it’s a collection of Ansible Playbooks that perform fully automated deployment and […]
Continuing with my Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam preparations we’re now going to take a look at upgrading a Kubernetes cluster.
Questions and answers pertaining to VMSA-2023-0023 AND CVE-2023-34048, CVE-2023-34056. Updated at 0800 PST (-0800) on January 19, 2024
Retrieving detailed vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) Image information from vSphere Cluster using PowerCLI
As more and more users are adopting vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) to simplify the lifecycle and configuration management of their ESXi hosts, you may want to get more information about a given vLCM image that has been associated with a specific vSphere Cluster. While you can certainly get this information using the vSphere UI, you […]
At VMware, we take reliability, uptime, and availability as importantly as we take performance, security and other desirable benefits of virtualization. What if, when a vMotion operation is invoked, the operation waits for an Administrator-configurable “clearance” from the Guest Operating […]
The VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Holodeck Toolkit has become quite popular amongst our field teams for quickly spinning up a fully self-contained VCF environment, running on just a single physical ESXi host for educational and hands on experience. Internally, we have a Holodeck Google Space […]
There is a new book that shall be interesting to read for VMware admins that want to learn more about DevOps and some step-by-steps for deployments and managing applications at scale with Docker containers and Google Kubernetes.
I had a meeting last week with a customer and a question came up around the minimum number of hosts a cluster requires in order to use. particular RAID configuration for vSAN. I created a table for the customer and a quick paragraph on how this works and figured I would share it here as well.
One of the security enhancements that came out with vSphere 8 U2 and we haven’t talked yet is vSphere 8 U2 Identity Federation with Entra ID/Azure AD. This feature is an enhancements of the vSphere identity federation feature that are part of VCP exam topics here – VCP-DCV on vSphere 8.x […]
