There’s a new host in town! Called i4i.metal.. What can it be used for? What does it cost? Here’s all the answers. The shiny new i4i.metal host features 64 cores, 1TB of memory (1024 GiB) and ~20.46 TiB of usable blazing fast NVMe storage capacity. That’s a lot of power in a single host. It’s kind of double what the …

This post you are reading is a follow-up to the older post I made here: Ordering VMware Cloud on AWS through AWS as a private individual. In that post, I talked about how you can consume the VMware Cloud on AWS service while getting billed to your AWS Billing account, meaning no $1000 credit card fee*, and you can use …

In this post, we will be deploying a single node VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. An SDDC is a software-defined data center. VMware Cloud on AWS combines the power and services of AWS and their infrastructure, with the well-known VMware SDDC stack. (vSphere (ESXi), vCenter, vSAN and NSX Data Center). To get started, we head …

This post will be all about how I went through the unknown road of ordering VMware Cloud on AWS as a private individual through AWS. First I want to give a huge thanks to Troy Lindsay for helping me massively with all the issues that we came across. Before I get into it, what exactly is this path? Well, simply put, …

Hi everyone, It’s been a while since I have posted here. An update on what has been going on will follow soon, however, this post will be about my experience with the VMC on AWS Guided Hands-On Workshop I took as part of a VMUG. I have to say, overall it went pretty good. This was the first time that they were doing …

Hello reader, For a while I’ve been having an idea for an offering I have not been able to find anywhere. Currently, if you want to pay for VMware Cloud on AWS through a credit card, you have to pay $2000 up-front which expires after 60 days. Not everyone can do this, so this is where this comes in. The idea is that …

Hi, In this post, we’ll be talking about setting up a Site Pair and interconnect with HCX, between your on-prem datacenter and your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. Video version here. Written version: In this post, we are going to create a Site Pair in HCX and an interconnect. Like the name suggests, a site pair pairs two …

Hi everyone, In this blog post, we will be going over how to deploy HCX on both your VMware on AWS SDDC and also on-prem. So what exactly is HCX? One of the main features of HCX is stretching networks between on-prem and your VMC on AWS SDDC. (It does not have to specifically be to/from a VMC SDDC). Also you can …

Hi readers, In this post, we will be taking our previously deployed TKG workload cluster and make it accessible through a public IP using NAT. First, we deploy an application. I’ll use yelb. See the previous post on how that works. Here we see that our application is deployed. Let’s look at the load balancer IP. As we …

Hi everyone, In this post we will be making our own deployment VM to deploy Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on VMware Cloud on AWS. There is a demo appliance, but I would like to use the latest versions of everything. If you would like to know more about Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, please check out this link. This also works for …