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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If you do know how to connect the VirtualInfrastrure then that can be done in one liner powershell to export the VApp: Get-VM -Name vcf-m01-* | Export-VApp -Destination "D:\VM\Nested\Vapp" -Force -Format Ova | Out-Null If you don't, i'll soon make a PR to William Lam's script to add ExportVM option (Just leave option …

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Just asked for it few days ago here, then shared some of these tips on William Lam website and on the same day, (would you believe it ?) a PR and a merge make it happen ! The virtualization community is fast 😀. Automated VMware Cloud Foundation Lab Deployment This version include fix for step 1,3,4 (need to follow the …

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Everything run virtually in a single box PHYSICAL LAB B.O.M 900€ (GPU & HDD not counted) RYZEN 2700 BOX (230€) officially support 64GB but it takes 128GB DDR4 Patriot 4 x 32GB at (100€) each with few BSOD MEMORY MANAGEMENT MOTHERBOARD MSI X570 (170€) 1TB SSD NVMe M.2 Micron P1 (100€) (100GB for OS and 831GB for LAB …

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