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Living The Dream @ VMware´s Telco PSO
When I was a teenager in the early 2000´s I was obsessed with Amateur radio and earned my FCC license and call sign (KI4KZV) when I was...

William B
Sep 5, 20235 min read


Understanding Architecture Failure Modes & Weaknesses
Every cloud platform designed and built by humans has weaknesses and faults. The value that a platform might bring to its users is partly...

William B
Jul 16, 20231 min read


vSphere Design Considerations: Availability
Designing new platforms can be complicated. When you are in charge of designing and managing your own vSphere infrastructure, you will be...

William B
Apr 13, 20231 min read


vSphere with Tanzu Cluster Fails to Deploy
I ran into an issue when deploying a TKG cluster where the cluster object in vCenter would be created under Namespaces but for some...

William B
Dec 24, 20221 min read


VMware Telco Cloud Automation Airgap Server Deployment
VMware has its own Telco Cloud Platform solution which is ready to host modern 5G telecommunications workloads while giving the end user...

William B
Nov 21, 20224 min read


Design Considerations for Multiple Availability Zones in VCF3.11 (NSX-T 3.0.3)
NSX-T provides software defined networking for the VCF platform. Prior to VCF4.0, NSX-V was used in the Management domain. This has been...

William B
Oct 29, 20227 min read


vIDM Cluster VM Boots into Emergency Mode
Recently we needed to power off our VMware vIDM cluster nodes. I performed this operation gracefully using the vRealize Lifecycle...

William B
Sep 27, 20221 min read


How to Setup Local Yum/DNF Repository on RHEL 8 Server on vSphere 7 with NSX-T
Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems usually require that you download some linux package dependencies in order to install features...

William B
Aug 11, 20222 min read


Submitting a vSphere Feature Request
vSphere continues to get better as time goes on. VMware has been very good at listening to their customers and adding features that make...

William B
Jun 30, 20221 min read


VCAP-DCV Deploy 2022 Exam Experience
I recently passed the VCAP-DCV Deploy 2022 exam. I was able to take this exam remotely from the comfort of my own home, which ended up...

William B
Jun 20, 20222 min read


How to build a Harbor server on Photon 4 OS
Harbor is a CNCF application and code repository, and is one of the preferred ways to get code and applications into and out of an...

William B
May 11, 20223 min read


vSphere 7 / VCF 4.X Feature Requests
I am currently responsible for several vSphere 7 related projects. We have a high level of VMware competency in our organization, which...

William B
Apr 25, 20223 min read


Joining the vExpert Modernization Program
I was notified just before the weekend that I have been accepted in the VMware vExpert Modernization program. One of the reasons that I...

William B
Apr 17, 20221 min read


How to install PX-Backup on TCE
It is important that modern platforms have a robust backup and DR design as part of the implementation. I made a previous post about...

William B
Feb 21, 20221 min read


How to Install Portworx Enterprise on TCE
I mentioned Portworx in previous posts. In short, Portworx is an enterprise-grade storage solution for Kubernetes. It can run on bare...

William B
Feb 21, 20223 min read


Tanzu Community Edition Node-level Troubleshooting
There may be times that you need to perform operations on the actual TCE Node VM itself. I was recently troubleshooting an issue related...

William B
Feb 3, 20221 min read


Kubernetes Platform Design Considerations for Tanzu Part 5: Security
The final blog post in this series is about security. All Tanzu platform versions support vanilla-upstream Kubernetes, as as such many of...

William B
Feb 1, 20221 min read


Kubernetes Platform Design Considerations for Tanzu Part 4: Recoverability
This blog post is focused on recoverability (Disaster Recoverability). Organizations should have a DR plan, which is an IT-focused plan...

William B
Feb 1, 20224 min read


Kubernetes Platform Design Considerations for Tanzu Part 3: Performance
Moving forward from my last post about Manageability, we will focus on performance. Performance is an extensive topic with simply too...

William B
Feb 1, 20223 min read











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