Virtualization - Dennis Faucher's Blog

All the Ways VirtualBox Remote Access Fails 🙂

Why? So, over the past few years, I have moved my Home Lab from ESXi & Proxmox to Kubernetes on Linux and finally to Docker on Linux. I have very little need for virtual machines these days, except to try out cool distros (like Garuda) or desktop environments (like Budgie)

Kubernetes

A Working Kubevirt Tutorial 🙂

A Working Kubevirt Tutorial 🙂 Why? Well, after failing 27 ways to install RedHat OpenShift Virtualization (You can read that post here), I decided to add kubevirt manually to Kubernetes. The tutorials out there mostly don’t work. I finally found a process that works and thought I would write the

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SUSE Harvester for Dummies

SUSE Harvester for Dummies Why? Well, the Broadcom acquisition of VMware, and subsequent packaging and pricing changes, have caused customers to look for options. To be the most help to my customers, I have been getting my hands on as many "VMware Alternatives" as possible - Nutanix, Proxmox,

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KVM VMs & Networking Quickstart

KVM VMs & Networking Quickstart Why? Well, the Broadcom acquisition of VMware, and subsequent packaging and pricing changes, have caused customers to look for options. To be the most help to my customers, I have been getting my hands on as many "VMware Alternatives" as possible - Nutanix,

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Automagical vCenter Documentation with MkDocs

Automagical vCenter Documentation with MkDocs ❓ Why ❓ Everything as Code has been a very popular topic over the last 5 years or so. Mostly, as IT continues to move faster and automation is needed to meet business timelines and guaranteed quality. This past week, I have been helping a customer set

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Monitoring Plex in VMware vRealize Log Insight

Monitoring Plex in VMware vRealize Log Insight Why This week, I have been migrating from a nice FOSS logging solution (GrayLog) that became corrupted (my fault) back to the lovely, solid, and easy to use VMware vRealize Log Insight (Now called VMware Aria Operations for Logs). Part of this process

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Pushing vSphere Events to Phone Notifications

Pushing vSphere Events to Phone Notifications Why I’m embarrassed to say, I created this hacky hack because I’m not smart enough to get the email functionality of ghettoVCB working 🙂 I use the free Pushover service for other notifications in my Home Lab, so I thought I would give

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Brute Force vRealize Network Insight Cloud & vCenter

Brute Force vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) – Part 2: Install a vCenter Data Source Why? (Recap from Part 1) Well, two reasons actually. One, I have always thought vRNI was really cool and valuable and two, I signed up to teach one of the VMware Customer Connect webinars on vRNI Cloud.

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Brute Force vRealize Network Insight & AWS

Brute Force vRealize Network Insight Cloud (vRNI) – Part 1: Install an AWS Data Source Why? Well, two reasons actually. One, I have always thought vRNI was really cool and valuable and two, I signed up to teach once of the VMware Customer Connect webinars on vRNI Cloud. I know enough

Kubernetes

Managing Tanzu Community Edition with vRealize Operations

Managing Tanzu Community Edition with vRealize Operations Why I’ve been spending many hours working with VMware Tanzu Community Edition (TCE) since TCE was released. This has been an excellent education in Tanzu as well as in Kubernetes. You can find my first experience installing TCE in this blog post

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Hands-On with VMware Tanzu Community Edition - AWS Option

Hands-On with VMware Tanzu Community Edition AWS Option (Image Credit: This Page) Why In my last post, I covered in gory detail how to use the Tanzu Community Edition CLI on your Mac to create and manage a Kubernetes cluster on vSphere. Very cool and it actually works. Oh, and

Kubernetes

Hands-On with VMware Tanzu Community Edition - vSphere Option

Hands-On with VMware Tanzu Community Edition vSphere Option (Image Credit: This Page) Why VMware Tanzu Community Edition (TCE) was just released the other day. Tanzu is one of the best heterogenous, multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms today. Now that there is a free version, I wanted to install TCE in my Lab

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VMware Monitoring on Apple/Android Smart Watch

VMware Monitoring on Apple/Android Smart Watch Why A few years ago, I was very active in the Android Watch Community including designing custom watch faces with programmatic actions. I eventually moved back to actual watches where I did not have to worry about battery life. Recently, I have been

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Demo: VMware Tools Guest Content Distribution

Demo: VMware Tools Guest Content Distribution Why (Image Source: Oreilly.com) vSphere 7 U2 was released on March 9, 2021. You can find the release post here. Update 2 is a huge release with many impressive features for customers. When you have the time, I suggest reading the VMware post

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vRealize Operations REST APIs for ESXi-ARM GPIO CPU Temp

vRealize Operations REST APIs for ESXi-ARM GPIO CPU Temp Why As an IOT device, I’ve been thinking of possible data collection scenarios for the Raspberry Pi 4 running ESXi-ARM. My first proof of concept was to collect hygrometer data and send to vRealize Log Insight. You can watch that

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Ansible and ESXi-ARM on Raspberry Pi4

Ansible and ESXi-ARM on Raspberry Pi 4 Why When I heard about Project Monterey at VMworld 2020, especially running ESXi on Smart NICs, my head just about exploded. Amazing. Imagine network segmentation and bare metal provisioning running ON THE NIC. Five days after VMworld 2020, the ESXi-ARM Fling was released.

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Terraform vSphere VM Creation Tutorial

Terraform vSphere VM Creation Tutorial Tutorial Explaining How to Use Terraform to Automate vSphere VM Creation Why My customers are all looking to see how Terraform fits in their multi-cloud strategy, so I figured some Terraform hands-on couldn’t hurt. Quick Demo Video Here is a quick demo video of

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Hey Google, Automate VMware

Hey Google, Automate VMware Why My electric company gave me a free Google Home for signing up and I needed to see what I could teach it to do. I have been blogging (blog.faucher.net) about interesting developments in VMware lately, so this seemed like a good idea. Requirements

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Kubernetes on vSphere 7 Demo - Developer View

Kubernetes on vSphere 7 Demo – Developer View Part 1 You can find Part 1 of this series, focusing on setting up the Kubernetes Supervisor Cluster, here. What VMware just released information on vSphere 7 and all the new features included. One of those is native Kubernetes. To see an amazing

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Kubernetes on vSphere 7 Demo - Admin View

Kubernetes on vSphere 7 Demo – Admin View What VMware just released information on vSphere 7 and all the new features included. One of those is native Kubernetes. To see an amazing clickable mind map drilling into all new features see this page. Why It is March 17th, 2020 as I