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…
Home Lab – Overclocking the Supermicro M11SDV-8C+-LN4F (MBD-M11SDV-8C+-LN4F-O Mini ITX Server)
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…
Tanzu Kubernetes on vCenter 7 – 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 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…
Tanzu Kubernetes on vCenter 7 – Deploy Guest Cluster
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…
Tanzu Kubernetes on vCenter 7 – Namespace Setup
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
Tanzu Kubernetes Content Library in vCenter 7
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
Tanzu Kubernetes on vCenter 7 – Deploy Supervisor Cluster (WCP)
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
Home Lab – Deploy vCenter 7 and vSAN on nested ESXi
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…
Home Lab – pfsense xml dump
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.
Home Lab – Configuring the baremetal ESXi7
So now that we have our SuperMicro server setup, and we’ve installed ESXi7, the next step is to do some basic configuration on our BareMetal ESXi7. We will setup the network, view the storage, and prepare the esxi for the nested esxi environment. Network Configuration Storage Configuration This is basically the whole setup for the…