Today we’ll look at the new licensing workflows in VCF 5.0. If you’ve already had experience with older versions of VCF, you’ll know that the licensing can be a bit fiddly. The SDDC manager doesn’t manage this process end to end, so you end up adding the license keys to SDDC Manager, then manually to…
The long awaited VCF 5.0 was recently released, here’s a post regarding my lab upgrade experience. Before you begin, read all the documents: !! VCF 5.0 Licensing Fulfillment Delays !! Official Release Announcement Release Notes VCF 5.0 Important KB Articles The source version for this upgrade is VCF 4.5.1, let’s get into it! Urgh, let’s…
In this article, I’d like to talk about some advanced networking use-cases when deploying a VLC Holodeck environment into your lab. The supplied documentation only covers deployment onto a single host – this can be restrictive due to the amount of compute resources required to spin up a nested VCF environment. By following this guide,…
I recently had to troubleshoot a network connectivity issue, and was seeing some strange behaviour when comparing the Windows Client -> Photon Server trace to the same in the reverse direction. From Photon to Windows I was getting timeouts, and the trace never completed. When Windows was the source, it worked fine. After some research,…
When I was purchasing SSDs for my Home Lab, there wasn’t a lot of useful benchmarks out there for my use-case. I started out with the cheapest, they are all the same right? Wrong. My main use-case is nested VMware Cloud Foundation which is already very resource intensive, but hammers the storage due to the…