Configuring vROps 7.5 Management Pack for Container Monitoring

The vROps Management Pack for Container Monitoring is something that I had been meaning to install and configure for a while now, but I just haven't had a chance until very recently. If you didn't know. VMware's vRealize Operations has a Management Pack for Container Monitoring. This includes adapters for both the Pivotal Container Service (PKS) as well as [...]

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Kubernetes Storage on vSphere 101 – ReadWriteMany NFS

  June 20, 2019
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Over the last number of posts, we have spent a lot of time looking at persistent volumes (PVs) instantiated on some vSphere back-end block storage. These PVs were always [...]

Kubernetes Storage on vSphere 101 – Failure Scenarios

  June 18, 2019
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We have looked at quite a few scenarios when Kubernetes is running on vSphere, and what that means for storage. We looked at PVs, PVC, PODs, Storage Classes, Deployments and [...]

Kubernetes Storage on vSphere 101 – StatefulSet

  June 12, 2019
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In my last post we looked at creating a highly available application that used multiple Pods in Kubernetes with Deployments and ReplicaSets. However, this was only focused on [...]

Kubernetes Storage on vSphere 101 – Deployments and ReplicaSets

  June 6, 2019
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In my previous 101 posts on Kubernetes Storage on vSphere, we saw how to create "static" persistent volumes (PVs) by mapping an existing virtual machine disk (VMDK) directly [...]

Kubernetes Storage on vSphere 101 – StorageClass

  June 4, 2019
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In the first 101 post, we talked about persistent volumes (PVs), persistent volumes claims (PVCs) and PODs (a group of one or more containers). In particular, we saw how with [...]

Celebrating 20,000 #vSAN Customers – Thank you

  June 2, 2019
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Wow - more than 20,000 vSAN customers. What an amazing journey it has been. If you haven't seen it, vSAN license bookings grew over 50% year-over-year in Q1 with a total [...]

Kubernetes Storage on vSphere 101 – The basics: PV, PVC, POD

  May 30, 2019
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I've just returned from KubeCon 2019 in Barcelona, and was surprised to see such a keen interest in how Kubernetes consumed infrastructure related resources, especially [...]