A first look at Heptio Velero (previously known as Ark)
Those of you who work in the cloud native space will probably be aware of VMware's acquisition of Heptio back in December 2018. Heptio bring much expertise and a number of products to the table, one of which I was very eager to try it. This is the Heptio Velero product, previously known as Heptio Ark. Heptio Velero provides a means to back up and restore [...]
Pivotal and Harbor – x509 certificate issues
After deploying and configuring the Harbor tile in Pivotal Ops Manager, I ran into a couple of issues with certificates. The first was encountered when I was trying to [...]
PKS and NSX-T: Error: Timed out pinging after 600 seconds
I'm still playing with PKS 1.3 and NSX-T 2.3.1 in my lab. One issue that I kept encountering was that when on deploying my Kubernetes cluster, my master and worker nodes kept [...]
New vRealize Automation, Cloud Assembly integration with SPBM
At VMworld last year, Duncan Epping and I presented on the power of Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM for short). You can find all of the slides and recordings here. One [...]
Reviewing PKS logs and status
After a bit of a sabbatical, I am back to looking PKS (Pivotal Container Service) again. I wanted to look at the new version 1.3, but I had to do a bit of work on my [...]
vSAN Erasure Coding Failure Handling
I had a very interesting question recently about how vSAN handles a failure in an object that is running with an erasure coding configuration. In the case of vSAN this is [...]
VMware vSAN 6.7U1 deep dive book now available
I am delighted to announce the availability of our newly updated VMware vSAN 6.7U1 Deep Dive book. This is the 3rd edition of the book. As the title states, this book's [...]