PKS 1.0 has gone GA on the 8 Feb 2018! Its kinda weird that there is not much announcement on the web.   I am super excited about PKS as it has native integration with NSX-T! Features Create, resize, delete, list, and show clusters through the PKS CLI Native support for NSX-T and Flannel Easily obtain kubeconfigs to use each cluster Use kubectl to view the Kubernetes dashboard Define plans that pre-configure VM size, authentication, default number of workers, and addons when creating Kubernetes clusters User/Admin configurations for access to PKS API Centralized logging through syslog In the following blog post, I’m going to start blogging about my experience on installing PKS 1. ...

In this post, you will face the configs of the NSX 6.2.6 on-demand LB what was spun up by vRA 7.01. For HTTP, you can select Cookie or Source IP for Persistence.   For HTTPS, SSL Passthrough is enabled by default. No persistence is configured. You can select Source IP or SSL Session ID for Persistence. The algorithm is configured Round-Robin by default. ...

In this blog post, I would like to find and list out whats available for NSX LB in vRealize Automation 7.3. You can read more about the announcement on vRA 7.3 NSX features here. There is a virtual server section where you can select what type of traffic you would like to load balancer. If you add a new virtual server and you can customise the protocol. ...

More details coming up. For now, screenshot first.     vSAN AF Performance on a 1Gbps network.   Some other performance testing before setting up the vSAN cluster. Single Node vSAN on Supermicro E300 Cache Tier: Samsung NVMe SSD 960 Evo M.2 **Capacity Tier: Samsung Evo 1TB SSD ** Samsung Evo 1TB M.2 convert to SATA on Supermicro E300 Samsung NVMe SSD 960 Evo M.2 240GB on Supermicro E300 ...

In the past 3-4 years since I have been started playing around with NSX-v, first version 6.0.4, I have been testing features here and there, performing demos after I join VMware, without really documenting down. Its always test and forget. So now, I’m going to start documenting down my tests with blogging, recording videos and diagrams. *Disclaimer: You will find incomplete blog posts because with my work commitments and being a dad of 2 young kids, its really tough to blog in a single block of time. ...

  Was pretty disappointed when I found out I am not able to install ESXi 6.5 on my SM E300 on mSATA SSD, which means no vSAN 6.6 goodness for me. I purposely purchased more SM to run a 4 node vSAN cluster so replace my unstable NFS on a single VM, single SSD. I also took the chance not to use USB for the boot drive because I have been burnt many times with USB. ...