Hi everyone, You may have heard me mention VMware Hands on Labs a few times, but what exactly is it? VMware Hands on Labs allows you to test drive products within your browser, at no cost. With HOL, you can evaluate the features and functionality of VMware products without the need to have your own physical lab …

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 …

Hi everyone, This post will be about a nice trick I learned to get the maximum out of your VMware Homelab. TPS, or Transparent Page Sharing, is a function where, in short, multiple identical virtual memory pages are pointing to the same page within the memory of the host. Here is a whitepaper that goes more in-depth. …

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). …

Hello! Inspired by my last blog post, here are more PowerCLI scripts to make life easier. Script one; get VMs on a specific host with a specific Port Group $viserver = "vCenter IP/FQDN here" $t_host = "ESXi FQDN/IP here as used in vCenter" $portgroup = "port group name here" Connect-VIServer $viserver Get-Cluster …

Hi everyone, In this post I am sharing a PowerCLI script that I made in order to easily migrate VMs from one network to the other. There are two versions of this script, one version has a hard-coded ESXi/vCenter instance, and the other one asks for the vCenter on each run. Version 1 (hard coded ESXi/vCenter): Do { …

Hi everyone, This post will be out about me moving back from NSX-T to NSX-V due to weird deploying issues. NSX-V is no longer being developed, so this has caused me to try to migrate to the new NSX-T, however I moved back to NSX-V when my NSX-T Edge nodes started to fail. The Geneve tunnels to the ESXi host randomly …

Hey everyone, As some of you know, I have my own IPv4 and IPv6 subnet, along with my own Autonomous System Number, in my case AS208751. I am not a LIR (Local Internet Registry, you can read more about that here.) myself, so I had to get a sponsoring LIR to request my ASN. Once that was taken care off, I got myself a …

Hi readers, This short post will be about how I had to set-up a static route on ESXi to my VPN subnet. My setup is as follows: I have an ESXi server in DC1, and a ESXi server at home. The Home ESXi server has vCenter and vRealize Operations Manager on it. My goal was to have vRealize Operations Manager give rightsize …

Hi readers, This post will be about my ‘adventure’ of getting my own AS number, IPv6 subnet, and peering with Hurricane Electric to announce my IPv6 subnet over a 6to4 tunnel. I started to chat with someone on Discord about getting my own IPv6 subnet. They’re not that expensive. I got mine from SnapServ. I purchased a …