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?
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”
In my first blog post, I covered the prerequisites and how to deploy the components for the Data Management for VMware Tanzu platform. In this blog post we will cover using this new infrastructure for Self-Service Database-as-a-Service deployment and configuration. Configure Database Templates and Instance Plans Log into your Provider Appliance as the Provider administrator … Continue reading Data Management for VMware Tanzu – Self-Service DBaaS
In this blog post I’m going to cover setting up the Multi-cluster support for Kasten when you’ve installed the software to multiple Kubernetes clusters. One K10 cluster you have deployed will become the primary node. You will use this node and dashboard interface to access the cluster UI. The primary cluster defines policies and other … Continue reading Configuring Kasten Multi-Cluster Manager across Tanzu and OpenShift
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