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vSphere with Tanzu – Can I disable DRS?

Can I disable DRS? No. Why can’t I disable DRS when Workload Management is enabled? DRS is a mandatory feature for workload management, the WCP service relies on objects such as Resource Pools to operate. Update – 29th October The vSphere with Tanzu Documentation has now been updated with this statement. Caution: Do not disable … Continue reading vSphere with Tanzu – Can I disable DRS?

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Using vRealize Log Insight Cloud to archive on-premise Log Insight Data

vRealize Log Insight 8.6 brings the ability to build a hybrid log management platform, utilizing the functionality of an on-premises deployment of vRLI and vRLI Cloud. From the release notes, in this blog post we’ll be looking at how to configure the following: Simplify Log Archival with Non-Indexed Partitions: Use vRealize Log Insight Cloud to … Continue reading Using vRealize Log Insight Cloud to archive on-premise Log Insight Data

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How to create vRO Dynamic Types for vRA Custom Resources

This follow on blog post, diving into how we created the vRA integration with DMS comes from Katherine Skilling, who kindly offered to guest spot and provide the additional content regarding the work we have done internally. You can find her details at the end of this blog post. In an earlier blog post Dean covered … Continue reading How to create vRO Dynamic Types for vRA Custom Resources

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Kubernetes Troubleshooting – Kubelet Unable to attach or mount volumes – timed out waiting for the condition

The Issue When I updated my Kasten application in my Kubernetes cluster, I found that one of the pods was stuck in “init” status. dean@dean [ ~ ] (⎈ |tkg-wld-01-admin@tkg-wld-01:default) # k get pods -n kasten-io -w NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE aggregatedapis-svc-78564d4697-wl9wg 1/1 Running 0 3m9s auth-svc-7977b9684b-zph27 1/1 Running 0 3m11s catalog-svc-7ff7779b75-kmvsr 0/2 Init:0/2 … Continue reading Kubernetes Troubleshooting – Kubelet Unable to attach or mount volumes – timed out waiting for the condition

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vSphere with Tanzu – Creating cluster fails with “storage class is not valid”

The Issue When you have attached a vSphere Storage Policy to your vSphere Namespace, and tried to create a cluster using the Storage Policy Name, you find it will fail with an error such as: Error from server (storage class is not valid for control plane VM: StorageClass ‘Tanzu Storage Policy’ is not assigned for … Continue reading vSphere with Tanzu – Creating cluster fails with “storage class is not valid”