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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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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”

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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