Resolving VMC – Objects with non-compliant storage policies in SDDC

The Issue Overnight I received an email from the VMware Cloud Services platform regarding a VMC environment I am an administrator of. The opening paragraph was as below: Please be advised that you have VMs and or objects in your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC that do not comply with the VMC SLA i.e. they … Continue reading Resolving VMC – Objects with non-compliant storage policies in SDDC

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How to Escape Strings in Terraform with a Dollar Sign ($)

The Issue When using Terraform to perform an action, and the input is using a $, you can end up with an output such as the below. │ Error: Invalid character │  │  on main.tf line 104, in resource “vra_blueprint” “this”: │ 104:      network: ‘${resource.Cloud_Network_1.id}’ │  │ This character is not used within the language. This … Continue reading How to Escape Strings in Terraform with a Dollar Sign ($)

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Tanzu Mission Control – Using custom policies to ensure Kasten protects a deployed application

The Issue A while ago I was chatting to Michael Cade, and we pondered the question “How do we ensure Kasten is protecting a newly deployed application in our Kubernetes environment”. We chatted about how one of the best ways to make your Kasten protection policy flexible is by using metadata labels. We came up … Continue reading Tanzu Mission Control – Using custom policies to ensure Kasten protects a deployed application

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Deploying OpenShift clusters (IPI) using vRA Code Stream

This walk-through will detail the technical configurations for using vRA Code Stream to deploy Red Hat OpenShift Clusters, register them as Kubernetes endpoints in vRA Cloud Assembly and Code Stream, and finally register the newly created cluster in Tanzu Mission Control. The deployment uses the Installer Provisioned Infrastructure method for deploying OpenShift to vSphere. Which … Continue reading Deploying OpenShift clusters (IPI) using vRA Code Stream