Bits, Bytes, & Radio Waves

A Journey Through Discovery

  • VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), and VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (ALB) (Avi)

    Overview So besides all the variations of product names in play, pre-Broadcom acquisition and post, there is something that has been baffling me for quite some time. How to create the globalenvironment in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle using VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (ALB) (Avi) as the load balancer. Installation Issues Things I am still…

  • iXsystems TrueNAS CORE and VMware

    Overview iXsystems publishes a White Paper, titled TrueNAS for VMware, which provides Best Practices for VMware. In this post, I am going to breakdown each of the best practices with an example. Hopefully this will help others, newcomers and experts, alike, at an optimally configured TrueNAS. For me, it will help ease the pain of…

  • Networking with Nested ESXi Hosts

    Overview I recently had to add an additional host to my lab as I was running out of compute (thank you VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and all the things…Aria Suite (specifically the clustered VMware Identity Manager), NSX, Avi Load Balancer). In addition to getting the additional host, I was fortunate enough to also upgrade the…

  • VMware Cloud Foundation Bringup – Resolving VCF_ERROR_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR

    Overview I was rebuilding my nested VCF Lab and after only four items of validation, I received a Failed status. Well okay, sometimes that happens. I re-ran it and received the same error. I checked the JSON file for anything out of sorts and didn’t see anything, so I thought maybe I will re-use the…

  • VMware Identity Manager and NSX Advanced Load Balancer (ALB)

    Overview You think there would be plenty of good resources documenting this, but I couldn’t find one. I found all kinds of resources for configuring against a Horizon environment, though. In this post, I am deploying a VMware Identity Manager cluster from an Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (LCM). This is my configuration of setting up…

  • MyLab: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Edge Node Cluster Diagram

    Overview I am not much of a drawer, so this is the best that I could come up with. The Tier-0 Gateway is a logical gateway, it is backed by the edge-node-1 virtual machine and edge-node-2 virtual machine. The two Edge transport Nodes are part of an Edge Cluster, called vcf-edge-cluster, but I did not…

This is how it all started…

I started this site with the intent to aggregate as much information as possible in one place. I use this to record lessons learned or frustrating configurations I have experienced on the job or just tinkering (learning) and just couldn’t find a better resource available. I have tried to be as thorough and accurate as possible, but technology is rapidly evolving and every environment is different. I may miss things along the way and my setup most likely differs compared to yours.

I hope you find this site has some value to you.

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Aaron Rombaut

Writer & Technologist