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Deploying a VCF lab using VLC

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:50:09 +0000

This post I’ll be taking another look at VLC again, a powershell script that can be used to deploy a nested VMware Cloud Foundation lab.

VLC, which can be downloaded here, is a powershell script that makes it easy to deploy a nested VCF lab. It’ll take care of creating the nested ESXi hosts, all the way to doing the bring-up process if you want to. It can even create and expand workload domains.

VMware Security Announcement VMSA-2021-0010 CVSSv3 score range 6.5 to 9.8

Tue, 25 May 2021 20:53:11 +0000

Hi everyone,

An urgent post for anyone on vCenter 6.5, 6.7 or 7.0!

NOTE: The information below is a snapshot of the VMSA-2021-0010 page, and this page may not be updated anymore after the post. For the latest information, I redirect you to the VMSA-2021-0010 link.

UPDATE: VMware just made a blog post with advise, questions, workarounds and more. You can find it here.

VMSA-2021-0010 has just been released, addressing:

VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 2: Upgrading

Fri, 24 Jan 2020 08:00:00 +0000

Hello readers,

This is part two of my VMware Cloud Foundation series. In this part, we will be upgrading all components to the latest version. At the time of writing 3.9 is the latest version and currently I am running 3.8.

In part one, we have done a bring-up on our SDDC, creating and deploying the management Workload Domain (WLD).

First what you need to do, is to connect a My VMware account, so it can download the upgrade bundles.

Highlighting PowerVCF

Sun, 19 Jan 2020 02:00:00 +0000

Hi readers,

This will be a short post. However, I want to take my time now and highlight a new creation from Gary Blake, Giuliano Bertello and Brandon Willmott called PowerVCF.

PowerVCF is, as from their GitHub page: “PowerVCF is a PowerShell Module for interacting with the VMware Cloud Foundation (SDDC Manager) public API.”

It has been tested with PowerShell 5.x and PowerShell Core 6.x
To install the module, open PowerShell as an Administrator and run:
Install-Module -Name PowerVCF
Or, alternatively, you can install the module download from the zip file in th GitHub repo:
Import-Module .\PowerVCF

VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 1: Deploying management domain with VLC

Tue, 07 Jan 2020 07:17:00 +0000

Hello readers,

In this part, we will be deploying VMware Cloud Foundation in a nested environment using vCF Lab Constructor, which you can read more about here. TLDR: it is a PowerShell script designed to automatically deploy vCF along with the management Workload Domain (WLD).

VCF Lab Constructor (aka VLC) is a great PowerShell tool created by Ben Sier and Heath Johnson working at VMware in the Technical Marketing team. A big thank you for them for making this amazing script!
Quoting from a blog post (which is how I learned about it), found here:
“It’s the easiest way to essentially deploy a Cloud Foundation nested environment, without having to manually install ESXi, Cloud Builder as well as doing lots of validation on your own.”

VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 0: Testing

Mon, 23 Dec 2019 22:57:55 +0000

Hi readers,

Currently, I temporarily have access to a server with enough memory to run a Cloud Foundation lab until January 2nd 2020.

This gave me the inspiration to build a Cloud Foundation lab and tinker around with it, along with tinkering with an automatic lab deployment script called VLC (VCF Lab Constructor). This is a Powershell program designed to make it easy to deploy a nested (means: running Virtual Machines within Virtual Machines.) Cloud Foundation lab. This is not supported by anyone other than some communities, but it seems to work great for others so I wanted to give it a try.