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Home Lab – SuperMicro Home Lab Components

Posted on June 29, 2022July 12, 2022 by Matt Adam

This components list is for the 2022 version of the Lab. I basically doubled everything on the server side, so I could have 2 servers instead of 1. Component List for Servers I pretty much followed this guide, except for a few small changes since some of the parts were discontinued or changed model number. Quantity Name…

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Tanzu Kubernetes on vCenter 7 – Deploy Avi Controller and Service Engines

Posted on October 12, 2021September 8, 2022 by Matt Adam

In order for tkgs to function, we need the Avi load balancer deployed. This is a very easy step and if you prefer to follow the official documentation it can be found here: https://avinetworks.com/docs/latest/installing-avi-vantage-for-vmware-vcenter/ Download Avi ova from VMware portal. Login to your account at https://my.vmware.com/ and go to Products and Accounts ->Products -> All…

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Home Lab – Overclocking the Supermicro M11SDV-8C+-LN4F (MBD-M11SDV-8C+-LN4F-O Mini ITX Server)

Posted on October 6, 2021September 8, 2022 by Matt Adam

This is not a required step to build your home lab. It’s just an extra step that will give you a slight performance boost if you want it. Obviously you should know that modifying any of these BIOS settings can break your system and I nor Supermicro are responsible for it. I’m providing this as…

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Tanzu Kubernetes on vCenter 7 – Deploy an Application (Blue)

Posted on October 5, 2021September 23, 2022 by Matt Adam

This is really the final step in setting up TKGs, testing the deployment. We will create a simple 2 pod deployment and use the Avi load balancer 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…

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Tanzu Kubernetes on vCenter 7 – Deploy Guest Cluster

Posted on July 30, 2021September 23, 2022 by Matt Adam

Now that we have the supervisor cluster up and running and our namespace created, we can deploy a guest cluster via the CLI. I installed an ubuntu 20 vm in vCenter for use as my jumpbox. I installed kubectl and the vsphere plugin in this environment. There are windows plugins and plugins for all the…

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Tanzu Kubernetes on vCenter 7 – Namespace Setup

Posted on July 27, 2021September 8, 2022 by Matt Adam

After deploying the supervisor cluster, the next step is to setup the namespace where we will deploy our guest cluster. Create Namespace Configure Dev Namespace

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Tanzu Kubernetes Content Library in vCenter 7

Posted on July 26, 2021September 8, 2022 by Matt Adam

Before you can setup workload management in vCenter 7, you need to create a content library and setup the subscription to point to vmware’s library. Add Content Library

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Tanzu Kubernetes on vCenter 7 – Deploy Supervisor Cluster (WCP)

Posted on July 26, 2021September 8, 2022 by Matt Adam

In this guide we will configure Workload Management for vCenter 7. We’ll be using vCenter Server Network (DSwitches) instead of NSX-T. Additionally we’ll be using the Avi Load Balancer (NSX Advanced Load Balancer). Licensing for Supervisor Cluster Configuring Workload Management

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Home Lab – Deploy vCenter 7 and vSAN on nested ESXi

Posted on July 26, 2021September 8, 2022 by Matt Adam

If you’ve followed the guide this far, you’ve deployed 3 esxi hosts nested on your baremetal esxi install. This guide takes it a step further by deploying vcenter and creating a vSAN cluster on the esxi hosts. Download vCenter Server Login to your account at https://my.vmware.com/ and go to Products and Accounts ->Products -> All…

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Home Lab – pfsense xml dump

Posted on July 22, 2021September 15, 2022 by Matt Adam

This is the xml dump from my pfsense router. If you prefer to use a step by step guide to configure your pfsense router, see This Guide.

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My name is Matt Adam and I’m a Product Line Manager at VMware.

I support the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks) with a focus on containers and Kubernetes. I have a background in load balancing, automation, development, and public cloud.

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