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Enhancement in VCF 9.0.1 to bypass vSAN ESA HCL & Host Commission 10GbE NIC Check

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VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0.1 is the first maintenance release for VCF 9.0, delivering a number of important fixes but also several exciting enhancements for lab deployments or running proof-of-concepts (PoC).

VCF 9.0 had already introduced a number of built-in capabilities and some neat “tricks” that makes it easier than ever to deploy a minimal VCF footprint, which you can read more about here.

However, there were still a couple of minor annoyances around vSAN ESA HCL or Host Commissioning pre-checks that could be improved to provide a better customer experience when deploying VCF for non-production usage. With feedback to VCF Engineering, I am pleased to share that these issues have now been addressed as part of VCF 9.0.1 release!

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MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Configuring Model Store using Harbor for VMware for Private AI Services (PAIS)

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In this blog post, we will setup an AI Model Store using Harbor, which will allow us to download Hugging Face models and upload that to our private Harbor registry for use with VMware for Private AI Services (PAIS).

Requirements:

  • VM to install Harbor or an existing Harbor instance
  • Docker Client installed on your local desktop
  • Hugging Face CLI installed on your local desktop (Refer to the official documentation for installation steps)
  • VCF CLI installed on your local desktop (Refer to the official documentation for installation steps)

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MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Configuring Authentik Identity Provider VMware for Private AI Services (PAIS)

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In this blog post, we will walk through the configuration of an Identity Provider (IdP) and create an OIDC Public Application Client, which will be used to grant access to a PAIS deployment. As of this blog post, the instructions for setting up the required IdP will be based on Authentik (which I have blogged about before), which is a free and self-hosted IdP solution.

Note: I am also looking to get this working using Keycloak, but currently I am still debugging some issues, so will provide an updated blog post once I can also use Keycloak as an IdP for PAIS.

Requirements:

  • DNS entry for IdP (e.g. auth2.vcf.lab)
  • DNS placeholder entry for the PAIS deployment instance (e.g. pais.vcf.lab)
  • vSphere environment to deploy the IdP

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