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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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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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Terraform vSphere Provider – Error while creating vApp properties

The Issue When using Terraform to deploy a virtual machine OVA using Terraform, I kept hitting the below error: Error: error while creating vapp properties config unsupported vApp properties in vapp.properties: [vm.vmname vami.gateway.DMS_agent_VA vami.netmask0.DMS_Agent_VA vami.DNS.DMS_Agent_VA vami.searchpath.DMS_Agent_VA vami.ip0.DMS_Agent_VA vami.domain.DMS_Agent_VA] on Agent_appliance/main.tf line 20, in resource “vsphere_virtual_machine” “vm”: 20: resource “vsphere_virtual_machine” “vm” Pretty simple right? In my … Continue reading Terraform vSphere Provider – Error while creating vApp properties

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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