cloudmaniac.net - Romain Decker

While I attended many times the European event, last week was only my 2nd VMworld US and it was a blast! It has been a few days since I came back from Vegas, and I was surprised (in a good way) to see that the session recordings were already published! \o/

Deploying an OVA/OVF is a typical operation in a vSphere environment, and VMware administrators have plenty of options for that: using the VMware Web or HTML5 clients or techniques based on OVF Tool such as PowerCLI or Ansible. Recently, I have been using the govc CLI when I had to do a basic OVA deployment. Why precisely this method over a different one? Deploying OVA through the UI can be frustrating (especially when you have unknown errors, or after a vSphere upgrade) and time-consuming. ...

2017 is gone, long live 2018! After a fantastic year 2016, 2017 was just as busy and amazing… Looking back at 2017: The highlight of the year was of course the birth of my 2nd son during the summer. :) I had to step up in my role and to take additional responsibilities. I travelled a little more than 110,000 km (16 trips, 82 days), in 22 cities in 10 countries. ...

Announced during the Pivotal SpringOne conference, NSX-T 2.1.0 is GA as of December 21, 2017. Among new features and enhancements, you will find: Load Balancing: to use logical load balancers, you must start by configuring a load balancer and attaching it to a Tier-1 logical router. Inline and one-arm topologies are supported. One load balancer can be attached to a T1 router. NSX-T load balancer supports Kubernetes service or ingress resources. ...

NSX-T Manager provides a REST API to automate management activities. You can interact with the API using RESTful web service calls over HTTPS. But what about the API documentation? There are multiple ways to get to the NSX-T API documentation, such as embedded API documentation in the Manager, the API Explorer or using a Postman Collection. NSX-T API Documentation The best choice, in my opinion, is to use the embedded API documentation which is accessible via the help link in the Manager UI. ...