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From VMware PKS architecture, slide from VMworld 2017 US, you can see there is NSX to provide the network & security services for BOSH. To be more precise, this is going to be NSX-T. In the following few posts, I will cover setting up the vSphere Lab and prepare the hosts for NSX-T, and be ready for PKS.   Introducing NSX-T 2.1 with Pivotal Integration {.single-title} https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2017/12/nsx-t-2-1.html/ As you might have guess it by now, the version of NSX-T I will be using the lab will be 2. ...

Pivotal Container Service (PKS) was announced in VMworld 2017 US. Its not GA yet but through the VMworld CNA sessions, I learnt that its going to use BOSH to spin up Kubernetes cluster, thus the name KUBO – Kubernetes on BOSH. Through my googling, I saw my fellow colleague Simon from Ireland had the same thinking and did a fantastic job in detailing in the installation steps required to get KUBO up and running. ...

I was very excited when William Lam develop an automated NSX-T 2.0 Lab deployment and I always wanted to try it out. I had tried to install NSX-T 2.0 manually couple of weeks back and I know its quite painful to install it so since there is an automated way of doing it, its going to save me lotsa time. However, its not so straight forward to use William script whole sale and below I am going to list a few things to be taken note of. ...

Few of you all know I used NSX Load Balancer for Name-based Virtual Hosting in my home lab as I only got a single Public IP Address and I got a few websites that I would like to host. For example, this blog you are reading now is actually being hosted behind a NSX LB. Try resolving blog.acepod.com and nsx.acepod.com, they will both resolve to same IP address ie. 101.100.182.15 but when you access these URLs, they are actually different web servers. ...

Recently had the opportunity to set up an all flash vSAN on OVH BMaaS to facilitate a Customer NSX POC. Took the chance to run some vSAN throughput test. This is the server built that we got from OVH. We selected the Mini-HG and configure it with 3 SSD. Its physical locally in the OVH BHS (Canada) DC.   This was the service we selected. Basically, I used the vRACK service and put vSAN traffic on the 2nd NIC ie. ...

I always wanted to learn more about Angular JS and I thought Project Clarity would be a great way to start. A couple of months back I tried to install npm, it failed and I did not bother to look at it and partly I was busy with other stuff. Last couple of weeks I have been putting vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) into my Lab to prepare myself before going to Customer place for VIC + NSX POC. ...