It’s also worth setting the physical ESXIs in your home lab to run on a High Performance setting. The default is Balanced, and after modifying mine to High performance, I am definitely seeing a performance improvement.
AKO – L7 Ingress on vSphere with Kubernetes (WCP – TKGs) with NSX-T
Long title, but basically this is a guide to deploy L7 ingress on top of your WCP and NSX-T setup. If you’ve followed my previous guides, you should have NSX and WCP configured, and a supervisor cluster and guest cluster already configured. We will need to add a little bit more config to NSX-T and…
Tanzu Kubernetes on vCenter 7 with NSX-T – Deploy an Application (Blue)
This is really the final step in setting up TKGs, testing the deployment. We will create a simple 2 pod deployment and use the NSX as the load balancer. Deploy the Blue Application in Tanzu Guest Cluster Login to the guest cluster and enable privileges Run the following commands to login to the vSphere Tanzu…
Tanzu Kubernetes on vCenter 7 – Deploy Supervisor Cluster (WCP) with NSX-T
In this guide we will configure Workload Management for vCenter 7. We’ll be using NSX-T. Licensing for Supervisor Cluster Configuring Workload Management with NSX-T
Home Lab – Deploy vyos Router
The vyos router will be deployed inside vCenter and it’s sole function is to route between your home network and the NSX-T network. We will configure iBGP between the two, so that any new segments you add in NSX-T will auto populate to the vyos router. Likewise, we will NAT on the vyos, so that…
Home Lab – Create NSX Distributed Switch
In order for NSX-T to run properly, we need to first create a distributed switch in vCenter and add to it, the esxi hosts. From VMware: NSX Virtual Switch is based on vSphere distributed switches (VDSs), which provide uplinks for host connectivity to the top-of-rack (ToR) physical switches. Add a distributed switch in vCenter Add…
Home Lab – NSX-T Troubleshooting
If you’ve made it this far and you’re still seeing errors in your lab (as I did) then there are a few things you should look for. DNS NTP MTU DNS I would ssh into all the components we’ve created (esxis, nsx-mgr, edge, vyos, etc…) and do some digs and nslookups. If any of them…
Home Lab – Deploy NSX-T Manager and Edge
Since our lab will be running NSX, we’ll need to deploy the NSX Manager and do some configuration. Then we’ll deploy one NSX Edge, and test connectivity to a segment. Deploy NSX-T Manager Download NSX-T Manager Download the ISO file from VMware, should see a file like this: nsx-unified-appliance-3.2.1.0.0.19801963.ova Deploy the NSX-T Manager OVA Standard…
Home Lab – Deploy vCenter 7 and vSAN on nested ESXi UPDATED
https://mattadam.com/2021/07/26/deploy-vcenter-7-and-vsan-on-nested-esxi/
Home Lab – Configuring a DNS Server
Do you really need a DNS server? I would say probably. I guess technically you could just modify your host file and get to all the fqdns that you need, but a DNS server definitely makes your environment more streamlined. Also, vCenter is pretty picky with DNS and might cause problems down the road. Bottom…