One of the great things about running a virtualized infrastructure on NC2 on AWS is the close proximity to all the cloud native services. One of those highly useful services is the AWS ELB or Elast...
If you’re using Dell servers for your DC or home lab, there used to be an option to download the ESXi ISO file directly from the Dell support site under “Enterprise Software”. This year the ability...
This is a quick note to show a concept of using the ChatGPT API for translation. In this case for English to Japanese, but it could be changed into any language. Since we want to talk to it we use ...
For those who have remained on 7.0, perhaps it is time to look at what new features were introduced in 8.0 to see if an upgrade is in order. This is especially pertinent as the 7.0 u3 release will ...
Summary In this blog post we explore two ways to use Nutanix Move 5.3 to migrate Virtual Machines from an existing VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) environment to Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS (NC2). Thi...
When running a home lab for vSphere, hardware is oftentimes not on the official VMware / Broadcom HCL. Creating custom images is therefore a must to get the required drivers for storage, networking...
Problem statement For infrequent VPN connectivity between on-prem labs / data centers and AWS it doesn’t make sense to have a permanent VPN connection up 24/7. However, configuring the on-premises...
Summary Did you ever wish you could host your own multi-player gaming servers with k8s? In that case I have great news, because in this post we’re covering how to deploy online multi-player game s...
This is a beginner-friendly intro to creating (and destroying!) VMs on VMware vSphere using Terraform. It includes code with plenty of comments to show what option does what. Bonus: Want to run a ...
VMware Cloud on AWS is configured to be highly secure from the get-go. However, there are additional add-on services both on the VMware Cloud on AWS side and the AWS native service side which can b...