After deploying VMware Cloud Foundation 9, there are several critical steps before your environment is truly ready. In this post, I walk through registering your VCF instance, configuring the online depot, and deploying Operations for Logs and Networks — including a few licensing and deployment issues I ran into in my homelab. … More VCF 9: post deployment – part 1
You know that feeling when you’re all set to start working on something, your plan is clear, and you’re ready to take action — but your homelab decides otherwise? That was me recently. I urgently needed a few print screens for a presentation I was giving at the UK VMUG, but of course, that’s exactly … More VRA doesn’t start
People that follow me on Twitter, know that we (vExperts) received an awesome gift from Cohesity. During VMware Explore in Barcelona we received a NUC for our homelab. How cool is that, an excellent gift to extend my homelab. Content blog article 1. Extra hardware Like with any NUC, you need to buy some extra … More Extending my homelab with the vExpert gift
Accepting the role as Belgian VMUG leader made me seriously neglect my homelab. So once I’ve found some time again to focus on my homelab, all my licenses and passwords were expired and I had to upgrade from 8.3 to 8.8. Because I’ve deployed everything with LCM I had to do it step-by-step, and for … More Lessons learned: upgrading homelab from 8.3 to 8.8
A huge advantage of being a vExpert is that you have a lot of licenses at your disposal. So if you have the necessary hardware, you can test a lot of products. Today I’ll be deploying vROps / vRNI & Log insight with LCM. Content blog article Upload vRNI to LCM Create environments vRLI config … More Homelab: Installing vROps/vRNI & Log Insight
As you know from my previous post I was so eager to start deploying LCM & vRA that I downloaded the wrong version of the appliance. So currently I’m at 8.2 while the latest version is 8.3. In this article I will update LCM & vRA to 8.3 and VIDM will be upgraded to 3.3.4. … More Homelab: LCM & vRA upgrade
After installing vCenter, it was time to install LifeCycle manager and vRA. And I’m going to start directly with a note to myself => Make sure you download the latest version :-D. I was so enthusiastic to deploy LCM, that I just downloaded the first version I’ve encountered, which was 8.2. But the actual version … More Homelab: LCM & vRA setup
Till today I was able to run a basic setup on my developer workstation with 64GB of RAM. But once you want to start working with several products as vSphere, vRA & NSX it just doesn’t cut it anymore. So I finally decided to invest in a real homelab for further experimenting. However, the only … More My vSphere 7 Homelab
Today, in part 4 we will create our ESX’es. 1. Go to the tab VMs. You need to click on the “+ sign” if you don’t see a list of available VMs to add. 2. Click on the “+ sign” next to the “Empty ESX”. 3. In the general tab we update the Name & … More How to build my ESXi Home lab in the cloud (part4) – Deploy ESX’es
In this 3rd episode we will configure our shared storage for our home lab.We will take care of that with a FreeNAS VM which is available in the Ravello repo => linkSearch for FreeNAS and click on “Add to Library”. 1. Create the FreeNAS VM 1. We go to the tab VMs. You need to … More How to build my ESXi Home lab in the cloud (part3) – Deploy FreeNAS
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