The lab has been running out of memory with all the new requirements for VCF 9.1 services cluster, so it’s time for an upgrade!I was tossing around a few options for the upgrade, I’ll detail below: Buy more DDR4 Memory – lol, it’s way too expensiveIntel Optane DC-PMM – These Optane SSD modules plug into…
Welcome back, in Part 2 of this HCX series we configured a Service Mesh between site-a and site-b in a Holodeck lab, to enable network extension and workload migration. In this post we’ll demonstrate the migration capabilities of HCX. First up, I’ll do some prep work. I’m creating an NSX Network Segment with CIDR 10.1.12.1/24…
In Part 1 we covered the deployment of HCX using the new VCF 9.1 Lifecycle process. In this post I’ll demonstrate the configuration of HCX by linking Holodeck Site-A to Site-B and migrating a VM from one site to another. First up, log into the site-a Holodeck HCX Manager at https://hcx-mgmt-01a.site-a.vcf.lab/ Browse to Sites and…
VCF 9.1 can now deploy HCX Appliances and manage the lifecycle via VCF Operations.In this post I’ll demonstrate the process, and in a followup I’ll show the process to link two sites for workload migration. First up, we’ll deploy – note that all IPs/Hostnames are conforming to the Holodeck standard. Step 1 – we’ll need…
Welcome back to the VCF 9.1 series. Next up, What’s New in VCF Operations. The release notes have a great overview of everything that’s new with VCF Operations, but I’ll highlight some of these things in this post. We have some nice UI improvements which better organize the menus based on the workflows you’ll be…
Operations in VCF 9.1 now has the ability to display real-time (2sec) granular metrics for vCenter, ESX, NSX and vSAN. This is essentially bringing ESXTop metrics into VCF Ops for a more streamlined experience. Before we can utilize this, we need to deploy the real-time metrics component into the VCF Management Services Cluster. Deployment Browse…
VCF 9.1 brings more integration for log management with the newest improvements for VCF Operations for Logs. Until now, this component was either a standalone appliance VM or a cluster – with VCF 9.1 the Ops for Logs functionality is brought into the VCF Management Services Cluster and fully managed via VCF Operations. We’ll start…
VCF Management Services The VCF 9.0 Identity Broker cluster started the trend towards moving VCF Management Services away from dedicated appliance VMs to containerized services running on a managed k8s cluster.With VCF 9.1 this is now being expanded further with the VCF Management Services Cluster, which is now a mandatory requirement for all VCF Deployments….
In this post, I’ll show the Upgrade process from VCF 9.0.2 to VCF 9.1.*Note: Screenshots are from a Beta version, GA may differ slightly. The overview for this process is as follows:1: Upgrade VCF Operations2: Upgrade SDDC Manager3: Deploy the Services Cluster with SDDC Manager4: Upgrade Management Components5: Upgrade core Management Domain Components (vCenter/NSX/ESX) First…
With the release of VCF 9.1, we have some new features and changes with the Installer & Deployment Wizard that I’ll cover in this post. First up – we’ve got a lot of new components in the Depot for the VCF Deployment.**Note: Screenshots have been taken from VCF 9.1 Beta. The GA version may differ…