Recently I've been testing out various NAS configurations in my homelab environment - I was particularly keen to get TrueNAS Scale (TNS) working with physical and virtual VMware ESXi hosts. I'd used NFS before from TNS to ESXi servers but found performance somewhat lacking (even when using NVMe or SSD storage) and …

In part 1 of this series I looked at creating the VMs, installing and updating Proxmox VE (PVE) on them and configuring local storage and networking for each VM to form a fully functional PVE cluster running as VMs running on a VMware vSphere ESXi platform. In this second part of the series I'll continue to configure …

Over the last few years Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) has been gaining a lot of interest as a way of easily managing virtual machines and container images using Open Source software and the Linux KVM hypervisor. In my home lab I was keen to try out the latest (v8.1.3) PVE environment including advanced networking …

In my home lab I've used many different platforms over the years to host container and VM workloads, often I find I need to move VMs between different hypervisors. In this post I'll detail the steps I used to move some virtual machines from TrueNAS Scale (which uses zVol storage for VM disks and KVM as a hypervisor to …

In part 1 of this series I looked at the process for a Service Provider to allocate a public block of IP addresses to be consumable by VMware Cloud Director (VCD) tenant organizations. In part 2 of this series I showed the process by which a Service Provider or tenant organization can allocate IP Spaces for consumption …

In an earlier post I wrote about the new IP Spaces feature in VMware Cloud Director (VCD) release 10.4.1 and the ability to create public IP spaces shared by multiple tenants. In this post I'll look at the ability to create private IP spaces within a tenant organization and some of the considerations for how these can …

VMware recently released version 10.4.1 of VMware Cloud Director (VCD) - VMware add a new feature known as IP Spaces. IP Spaces allow providers and tenant customers to manage IP address allocations within VCD. What was originally meant to be a 'quick look' at IP Spaces and the capabilities they add has somehow turned …

This year VMworld has changed its name to VMware Explore and the US event is back 'in person' at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from 29th August to 1st September 2022. The European event takes place in Barcelona from 7th to 10th November 2022. There are also an additional 4 Explore events this year: Singapore and …

The PowervRA module is a great set of PowerShell cmdlets for managing a VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) environment, but I wanted to learn a bit more about the REST API available from vRA and also had a requirement - to script a deployment from an existing vRA blueprint ('Cloud Template') which had no PowervRA cmdlet. …

I'm a huge fan of VMware Photon OS as a lightweight Linux distribution for running up quick demo and development environments as well as container hosts. In particular I like the small size and multiple distribution options (including VMware OVA, AWS AMI, Azure VHD and Google GCE formats as well as installation ISO and …