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Because i was unable to deploy multiple time i created an issue then a PR that got merged to master repo Automated VMware Cloud Foundation Lab Deployment Credit to LucD from VMTN Updated link
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Follow-up on 02/14/2023 previous issue. Found that the root cause to be a nested lab environment use case or CPU-I/O contention on the hosts, occurring on a task towards the end of the bringup called "Configure Base Install Image Repository on SDDC Manager", that copy VCSA ISO and NSX OVA to an NFS on the 4 …
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B.O.M 308€ Used AMD Ryzen7 3700X 3,6 GHz 7NM L3 = 32M at 158€ This link is dead Netac SSD 2tb M2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4 at 150€ This became cheapper! Ordered on 02/11/2023 and received 03/03/2023 but was worth the wait, not only did it come from the Official Netac store but on the back it says Quality Check "QC PASS …
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VMware Cloud Foundation with a single ESXi host for Workload Domain? williamlam.com. This will give room to play Workload VI Domain in the futur or AVN although AVN require 2 NSX Edges and there is contrainst to run these on separate ESXi host.
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Removing NSX CPU/Memory reservations when deploying a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Management or Workload Domain williamlam.com. 03/21/2023 Update I followed the steps but in my case i had some issues with directory returned by ovftool wich needed /${NSX_FILENAME}/ in the path of the commands and as final step to get …
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First the ovas import wizard don't need to be filled as the default are already set for our environment when used the Export option from VCF Lab script Export option - Vyos One thing to do on the vyos console is to remove occurence of old mac address "hw-id" and any new interfaces in the config.boot file …
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Similar to 02/08/2023 previous issue 1) NSXT MANAGER root admin audit account Just as in the post before click on the 3 dots and REMEDIATE using same password used in the deployment script. 2) ESXI service accounts Steps to recover expired Service Accounts in VMware Cloud Foundation (KB 83615) SSH into each of the 4 …
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PR Allow additional NSX-T Edge nodes #32 Now merged William vSphere with Tanzu using NSX-T Automated Lab Deployment Note: the script still use ha mode "ACTIVE_STANDBY" and edge uplink profile policy "FAILOVER_ORDER", but we can deploy more one edge in the same edge cluster with this PR.
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After a complete VCF Management deployment, at first logon SDDC Manager show alert Account Disconnected NSXT MANAGER The trick here is to understand, the text "Specify the password that was set manually on the component", that means the same password we set on the deployment script, more than the misleading …
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Troubleshooting Cloud Builder issue with minimal lab memory. Clicking on NSX Install Fail.. we see that the ESXi host is lacking memory. This 2nd Esxi Node happened to be one hosting the NSX VM but it had more than 13GB of free memory. We can work around this issue by live migrating the NSX vm to the 3rd ESXi node, and …
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