Laying Plan with tools at hand, namely VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Planning and Preparation Workbook, VMware NSX Reference Design Guide 4.2, Automated VMware Cloud Foundation Lab Deployment Branch Fork Vlan and Vyos At a starting point we'll use this logical design from VMware NSX Reference Design Guide 4.2 (download …

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Follow-up Deploy VMware NSX Edge Cluster via VCF API Follow-up of previous post of this serie on VCP-VCF VCP-VCF, After Bringup, Planning Workbook, Configure VLANs, DNS, NTP, BGP, Deploy VMware NSX Edge Cluster via VCF API Add AVNs Verify with Upstream Router connectivity Deploy VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Verify DNS …

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Follow-up Automated VMware Cloud Foundation Lab Deployment Branch Fork Vlan Follow-up of previous post and start of this serie on VCP-VCF Automated VMware Cloud Foundation Lab Deployment Branch Fork Vlan Important Note: I downloaded on 20 March 2025, before VMware by Broadcom changed the way to download on 24 March …

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Laying Plan with tools at hand, namely VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Planning and Preparation Workbook, VMware NSX Reference Design Guide 4.2, Automated VMware Cloud Foundation Lab Deployment Branch Fork Vlan and Vyos At a starting point we'll use this logical design from VMware NSX Reference Design Guide 4.2 (download …

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Lab Tutorial: Deploy and Convert vSphere 2 Nodes vLCM on NFS to VCF Management Domain with NSX Deployment on the new VCF Management Domain Considerations Before Converting or Importing Existing vSphere Environments into VMware Cloud Foundation 21/01/2025 Updated to VCF 5.2.1.1 Bill Of Software Materials Nested ESXi …

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Lab Tutorial: Deploy and Convert vSphere to VCF Management Domain with NSX Deployment on the new VCF Management Domain Thought: VCF Import Tool 5.2.1.0 first release as been superseded by the new complely revamped in 5.2.1.1 and now 5.2.1.2 to the point where the previous release download are no more available, there …

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Lab Tutorial in two Steps: 1st Deploy and Convert vSphere to VCF Management Domain, 2nd Deploy NSX on the new VCF Management Domain Bill Of Software Materials Nested ESXi 8.0u3 OVA on Flings VMware vCenter Server 8.0U3a - 07/18/2024 VCF Drivers and Tools VCF-SDDC-Manager-Appliance-5.2.0.0-24108943.ova(4.32 GB) - Jul …

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Troubleshooting Cloud Builder issue with minimal lab memory. Clicking on NSX Install Fail.. we see that the ESXi host is lacking memory. This 2nd Esxi Node happened to be one hosting the NSX VM but it had more than 13GB of free memory. We can work around this issue by live migrating the NSX vm to the 3rd ESXi node, and …

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Just asked for it few days ago here, then shared some of these tips on William Lam website and on the same day, (would you believe it ?) a PR and a merge make it happen ! The virtualization community is fast 😀. Automated VMware Cloud Foundation Lab Deployment This version include fix for step 1,3,4 (need to follow the …

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Everything run virtually in a single box PHYSICAL LAB B.O.M 900€ (GPU & HDD not counted) RYZEN 2700 BOX (230€) officially support 64GB but it takes 128GB DDR4 Patriot 4 x 32GB at (100€) each with few BSOD MEMORY MANAGEMENT MOTHERBOARD MSI X570 (170€) 1TB SSD NVMe M.2 Micron P1 (100€) (100GB for OS and 831GB for LAB …

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