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Big updates to the vCenter Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) Fling

03.10.2020 by William Lam // 1 Comment

The vCenter Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) team has been working hard over the last couple of months on some pretty exciting enhancements and today we are pleased to announce the release of VEBA v0.3 which can be download from the VMware Fling site. Although this is a "dot" release, do not let that fool you as this release contains a large number updates including a major re-architecture in how events are consumed and processed at the core of VEBA.

While this re-architecture does introduce some breaking changes, it does unlock a number of new capabilities that our current users have been asking for. It also provides us with a solid foundation for delivering on future enhancements such as multi-vCenter Server support and additional event sources from NSX-T, vSAN and other VMware Cloud Services to just name a few. Today, the "V" in VEBA stands for vCenter, but in the future, I do see it changing to just "VMware" as it can support so many other solutions.

Having said that, some of the breaking changes also improves the overall user experience, especially as it relates to defining and consuming vCenter Server events as well as troubleshooting and debugging. The team is super excited to get this release in the hands of our community and we look forward to hearing your feedback!

What's New:

  • Introduction of the VMware Event Router which provides a modular and flexible architecture for decoupling the stream "Providers" such as vCenter Server from the actual stream "Processors" like OpenFaaS. More details including its architecture and design can be found here

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Categories // Automation, VMware Cloud on AWS, vSphere Tags // Fling, VEBA, VMware Event Broker Appliance

Automating the creation of NSX-T "Disconnected" Segments for DR testing on VMware Cloud on AWS 

03.05.2020 by William Lam // 1 Comment

Disaster Recovery (DR) and Disaster Avoidance (DA) on VMware Cloud on AWS is still one of the most popular use case amongst our customers, just second to Datacenter Migration and Evacuation. The VMware Site Recovery service makes it extremely easy and cost effective for customers to protect their critical workloads without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. Most often, the biggest cost of having a dedicated DR site is the on-going operational and maintenance cost of that infrastructure.

Most recently I have seen several requests come in where customers were looking to streamline their DR testing which is fantastic to hear. Just having a DR solution is not enough, you actually need to exercise it and verify that your workloads and applications are functioning as expected. Today, customers can verify that their applications are functioning as expected by creating NSX-T network segments that are "Disconnected" and then using a VM-based router to provide internal connectivity between these isolated environments.

Here is a screenshot of the VMware Cloud console and under the Networking & Security tab, when creating a new segment you can specify whether the segment is "Connected" (Routed) or "Disconnected".


Obviously, the NSX-T UI is just one way of creating a segment. In fact, most customers that have asked about this is wanting to do this via Automation which not only brings speed to testing but also consistency! With that, I have updated my NSX-T PowerShell Community Module for VMC to include two new updates. If you have never used this VMC module before, please take a look at the Getting Started guide here.

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Categories // Automation, NSX, PowerCLI, VMware Cloud on AWS Tags // NSX-T, VMware Cloud on AWS

How to fix "extensions/v1beta1" & missing required field "selector" for Yelb Kubernetes application? 

03.03.2020 by William Lam // 1 Comment

As you can see from my recent tweets, I have been spending some time with Kubernetes Cluster API (CAPI) and specifically Cluster API Provider vSphere (CAPV) and deploying upstream Kubernetes (K8s) running on VMware Cloud on AWS 🙂

Looks like this week’s theme for me will be:

🔸CAPI (K8s Cluster API)
🔹CAPV (K8s Cluster API Provider for vSphere)
🔸KIND (K8s in Docker)
🔹TKG (@VMwareTanzu K8s Grid)

Already learned quite a bit in last 24hrs, huge thanks to @vmmannimal & @KendrickColeman for answering quest.

— William Lam (@lamw.bsky.social | @*protected email*) (@lamw) March 2, 2020

Just deployed my first @VMwareTanzu K8s Grid Management and Workload Cluster (12-Node), using #CAPI via #CAPV all running on #VMWonAWS 🥳 pic.twitter.com/TI9AEbkBew

— William Lam (@lamw.bsky.social | @*protected email*) (@lamw) March 2, 2020

After successfully deploying my first K8S Workload Cluster, I knew the first k8s application that I had to deploy on my shiny new K8s Cluster was Massimo Re Ferre' and Andrea Siviero famous "Yelb" application which I had demonstrated several years ago running on VMware PKS. In fact, I had even deployed it recently (late last year) in one of my Project Pacific cluster without any issue, so I was surprised when I ran into some challenges as you can see from the title of the blog post.

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Categories // Automation, Cloud Native, Kubernetes, VMware Cloud on AWS Tags // CAPI, CAPV, Cluster API, K8s, Kubernetes, yelb

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