After creating prereq vm, setting all parameters and deploying 4 esxi hosts in the first part of the article I started the third part by configuring accessibility as more and more elements were needed, more and more elements needed access between environments, I decided to run routing and NAT on prereq VM. additionally, to make it easier for me to get into the environment, I added static routing and hosts entries to solve fqdn names after setting up accessibility i started vCenter setups and set up the following one by one Virtualization extension Datacenter Cluster (HA, DRS, vSAN) Add host…

following the blow to our already existing environment, I added the vcenter installation part. What we have already achieved so far can be found here at the very beginning, on our prereq VM, we download the tool for downloading images from VMware as well as vCenter itself, due to the fact that vCenter is a large file, it takes a while, and after finishing we will remove the iso so as not to clutter the machines for deployment, it uses the option of deploying vcenter using CLI, and to make it non-interactive, we prepare a template in accordance with our…

I was fascinated by VCF, VLC, and other scripts, including those provided by William Lam. I decided to create my own script using PowerShell, which was a lot of fun and helped me develop a deeper understanding. I am hoping that this is the first part of many articles to come. I would like to create a script that would set up the environment for vRA with just one click, without the need to download any additional elements. I want everything to be included in the script. The first part is to prepare a prereqVM that will work as PXE,…

Recently, I managed to replace my worn-out Lab with something that has a little more power, I changed the memory from 92GB to 1024 ?. So, due to the greater computing power, I decided to set myself a solution that has been tempting me for a long time and I dealt with its part through my career. I’m talking about the VCF here. The choice fell on VMware Cloud Foundation version 4.5. This solution includes the following products As you can see, we have a lot of fun ahead of us, but some of it is already known to you…

Hi, today’s article will be about NSX-T, segments and various other things, but I apologize in advance if I write nonsense here. I’m not a network and NSX specialist, but I needed to create some functionality, which on NSX-V I did in 30 seconds, here it took me a bit and kept me awake at night because everything is built differently. The article will be about creating Segments that will have access to the Internet, as well as from my home network I will be able to access these segments so that I can test different solutions in my nested…

The current times provide us with many solutions related to automation as well as the so-called Infrastructure as a Code. Everything would be great, but we must tell ourselves that administrators, engineers, devOps or other technical people are not the only people who want to know how websites, services, and data flows are built. Therefore, one of the tasks when creating code or providing some functionality is to provide documentation for the solution. VMware, because my work is mainly based on this environment, provided us with vRealize Orchestrator (VMware Aria Orchestrator) version 7.x tools that automatically created workflow documentation. It…

Hello my readers I’m sorry that my articles are published so rarely, but I am still so fascinated by the world of vmware that it’s hard for me to break away and write something. Recently, I had the task of looking at the monitoring of Aria Automation infrastructures, previously known as vRealie Automation, or more precisely, Aria Automation Assembler, previously known as VMware Cloud Assembly after digging through various possibilities, a script in PowerShell was created that monitors ABX, CAS and Cloud Account along with all the possibilities that are unfortunately I can’t share this script so I went the…

Hi, Good Morning, I invite you to read the new article, which for me is an article for learning the VMware technology that I know the least, and by the way, having fun in creating a workflow and helping the community to create interesting solutions. As you already know from the title of the article, today I will be talking about NSX-T, API and vRO in vRA.But let’s start from the beginning. The NSX-T was released in 2016, i.e. 8 years ago, but I think most of you started looking at it from version 2, i.e. from the end of…

hi, recently I moved my lab to the basement so I can dig a little deeper in the infrastructure and connection. At first glance, I took the RBAC (Role-based access control). Based on the documentation from vRA, I created a map of what groups should be in the environment there is a bit of it so we can click it, but I made a simple script that will create it for me in AD for sure you can write it better but the script does its job and you can find it on my GITHub https://github.com/lukasz-tworek/vRA8 ok we have set…

I’ve been using vRealize Orchestrator a lot lately. I created various types of workflows, some did quite simple things, other in my opinion were quite well advanced. At one of the calls with VMware employees, I received quite an interesting teaser about vRealize Build Tools. I was very interested in this, so I would like to introduce you to this solution briefly, starting with building the environment. Installation The first element that is required is Java JDK which you can download from this page after logging in https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/#java8 The second element is Maven. Briefly about what is below an excerpt…