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Quickly deploying vSphere IaaS (formerly vSphere with Tanzu) Control Plane Services via YAMLs

07.09.2024 by William Lam // 10 Comments

I recently deployed the Local Consumption Interface (LCI) which is a new vSphere IaaS (formerly vSphere with Tanzu) Control Plane Service that was just introduced with the release of vSphere 8.0 Update 3 into my homelab.

Successfully deployed the new vSphere IaaS (formally vSphere w/Tanzu) Local Consumption Interface (LCI) Service https://t.co/1fbTUiNjJd

Needed to refer to docs to figure out how to actually access the LCI UI, its under Resources within vSphere Namespace! #vSphere80U3 pic.twitter.com/Wu9afjzVx6

— William Lam (@lamw.bsky.social | @*protected email*) (@lamw) July 7, 2024

While going through the manual vSphere UI deployment, I noticed there were only handful of vSphere IaaS services that are shipped out of the box including the VM Service (VM Operator), Velero vSphere Operator and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Service.


The workflow to register a new vSphere IaaS service is not difficult, but it does take multiple steps from downloading the deployment YAML file, uploading the file to vCenter Server and then confirm the deployment before the deployment of the service begins and this would have to be done for each vSphere IaaS service you wish to deploy!

There has to be a better and more streamline way, especially for those that do not like to click to many times in the UI 😅

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Categories // Automation, Kubernetes, VMware Tanzu, vSphere 8.0 Tags // vSphere 8.0 Update 3, vSphere IaaS, vSphere Kubernetes Service

Decoding vSphere (vCenter/ESXi), vSAN & Tanzu License Keys

06.10.2024 by William Lam // 2 Comments

For most users, you probably have a large collection of vSphere license keys that have been provisioned over the years and keeping track of the product SKU, entitled features and capacity can be a challenge, especially if you are just looking at the raw 25 character license string.

While the Broadcom Support Portal (BSP) is recommended for all license management operations(view, split, merge, etc), did you know you could also use vCenter Server to help decode a particular license key?

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Categories // Automation, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Tanzu, VMware vSphere Foundation, VSAN, vSphere Tags // license, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere Foundation

Identifying vSphere with Tanzu Managed VMs

04.25.2024 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

With an increasing number of customers enabling the vSphere with Tanzu capability, which is included in both VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), more and more Virtual Machines will be deployed using the more modern approach of declarative provisioning using the powerful VM Service feature.


When using the vSphere UI, you can easily distinguish between a vSphere with Tanzu managed VM from a traditional VM by checking whether it is provisioned within a vSphere Namespace or whether it contains the "Developer Managed" label as shown in the screenshot above.

However, how do you identify a vSphere with Tanzu managed VM when using the vSphere API for Automation purposes?

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Categories // Automation, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Tanzu, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0 Tags // VM Service, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0, vSphere Kubernetes Service

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