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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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Kasten K10 – Air gap installation using Harbor Image Registry

In this blog post, I will cover the steps for an air-gap installation for Kasten K10. For situations where your Kubernetes cluster doesn’t have available internet access to pull down the container images directly from their online locations. Pre-requisites Image Registry that is accessible by your Kubernetes cluster In this example I am using the … Continue reading Kasten K10 – Air gap installation using Harbor Image Registry

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Data Management for VMware Tanzu with vRealize Automation as Custom Resources

In this blog post, we will cover the technical configuration to import the packages that myself and Katherine Skilling (Twitter, LinkedIn, Blog) have created. This work is to show the possibility of creating custom workflows to integrate other products that are not natively supported within vRA, by exploiting Dynamic Types. A further write-up will detail … Continue reading Data Management for VMware Tanzu with vRealize Automation as Custom Resources

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MongoDB Container data loss issue – A Journey

Over the past month or so I noticed an issue with my Pac-Man Kubernetes application, which I use for demonstrations as a basic app front-end that writes to a database back end, running in Kubernetes. When I restored my instances using Kasten, my Pac-Man high scores were missing. This issue happened when I made some … Continue reading MongoDB Container data loss issue – A Journey

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vRealize Operations – Creating interactions between separate dashboards

Whilst reading some of the older vRealize Operations documentation, I stumbled on something I didn’t think was possible. The ability to create interactions between separate dashboards. At first, I thought could not be correct? I don’t remember seeing this option. But sure enough it’s there. So, I thought I’d write a quick blog about it … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Creating interactions between separate dashboards