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 …

Back in 2019, Tom Fojta wrote an excellent guide on configuring NSX Load Balancer in front of a VMware Cloud Director (VCD) cluster. As I was in the process of rebuilding my home lab environment I wanted to try this out - eventually I'll probably use the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly known as AVI), but I don't …

I previously wrote here and here about using the new VMware Cloud Director (VCD) API tokens functionality first introduced in version 10.3.1 to allow scripts and automation to connect to a VCD environment. With the update to VMware PowerCLI version 13.1 the previous way of achieving this is deprecated as the …

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 had some queries on my previous blog post on using the new API Tokens in VMware Cloud Director (VCD) 10.3.1 about whether these can be used in PowerCLI scripts from PowerShell or Terraform scripts which use the VMware Terraform Provider against Cloud Director. Fortunately the answer to both questions is 'Yes' and …