• After trying a deploy like described in the previous post this was my config: I found out that a full deploy takes up too much resources on my physical host, because the automation vm consumes 1 nested host alone with…

  • Finally there are some news about the transition from the core.vmware.com pages ,and Holodeck info is now here: https://vmware.github.io/Holodeck/ Here you can find info about configuring either VCF5.2 or VCF9. The components and prereq has changed a bit, and now…

  • After the migration of the VMware website to Broadcom there where some confusion with the links we where used to, and William Lam has made a great list: I listed some of them here:

  • Looking at the supportfiles for testing in your VCF-lab, we need some support vms, and the source iso is not included in the files. You can download the Ubuntu here: $src = “https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/bionic/release/ubuntu-18.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova”$ova = “ubuntu-18.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova” rename to:bionic-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova then put it…

  • So easy installer is complete, now what? Well, you need a few more steps if you want orchestrator fully integrated with vCenter and vRa. Check your inventory, and verify vAPI and vSphere vCenter Server. we start with vAPI. Go to…

  • When deploying a VCF installation with VLC Holodeck you need to deploy the Aria software, that means Aria Lifecycle manager, Aria Identity manager and Aria Automation. We have a few others as well, but will be covered in another post.…

  • So i have been using VMware Fusion a while now on my Intel based MacBook Pro, but my latest MacBook Pro had ARM cpu, and that seemed to change a few things. The most obvious was the OS support, but…

  • Ok, so we are installing the Holodeck Toolkit 5.1 There is still missing some documentation from the Broadcom site, so lets hope they migrate everything to the new broadcom pages soon and makes them available. In the mean time… Use…

  • Some times you may need to copy a script or textfile from your mgmt desktop to a vmware mgmt vm. In my case, this happened during VCF install and configuring the CloudBuilder VM. This is a linux vm and is…

  • As Broadcom aquired VMware, the Holodeck web pages have been moved and migrated, so for a while now, Holodeck setup info and documentation has been unavailable. They where located on core.vmware.com, and are (according to Broadcom) in a transition phase.…