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vSphere Datasets - New Virtual Machine Metadata Service in vSphere 8

09.21.2022 by William Lam // 1 Comment

Since the early days of Virtual Center and ESX, the only method for creating and sharing arbitrary metadata between the vSphere Management layer and the guest operating system was to use either guest variables (guestinfo) or the OVF runtime environment.

While both of these capabilities have enabled a ton of interesting use cases and have even inspired creative solutions such as this, this, this, this and this to just name a few, it certainly has its challenges and nuances from an end user experience perspective.

For example, the persistency or the non-persistency of guest variables solely depended on when it was applied to a Virtual Machine and the power state it was in, which can be very frustrating to discover for the first time and the inconsistent behavior for end users. The lack of security and access control in both guest variables and the OVF runtime environment also means the metadata could easily be overwritten or removed by users in either the vSphere Management layer or guest operating system, making this challenging to scale for larger organizations.

This is why I am excited for vSphere 8 and the new vSphere Dataset feature!

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Categories // Automation, PowerCLI, vSphere 8.0 Tags // vSphere 8.0, vSphere Datasets

Quick Tip - vSphere with Tanzu fails to sync Content Library with 500 Internal Server Error

09.19.2022 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

While setting up a new vSphere with Tanzu environment (which can run with just 32GB of memory), I ran into a really strange issue where my vSphere Content Library templates were not being picked up by the VM Service. I was going insane as I have configured this a number of times and I have never ran into this particulare issue before. I thought maybe it was a configuration problem but the enablement of vSphere with Tanzu was 100% successful and everything was showing green.

While looking at the vmware-system-vmop-controller-manager container log, I noticed that the VM Service can see the template but it just fails to extract and process it and throws a 500 Internal Server Error message:

E0917 12:08:23.060929 1 content_library_provider.go:275] vsphere/contentlibrary "msg"="error extracting the OVF envelope from the library item" "error"="POST https://vcsa.tanzu.local:443/rest/com/vmware/content/library/item/download-session: 500 Internal Server Error" "contentLibraryUUID"="a298369b-7239-4b1c-988f-d361e5a001d6" "itemName"="ubuntu-22.04-custom-image"
E0917 12:08:23.060984 1 content_library_provider.go:275] vsphere/contentlibrary "msg"="error extracting the OVF envelope from the library item" "error"="POST https://vcsa.tanzu.local:443/rest/com/vmware/content/library/item/download-session: 500 Internal Server Error" "contentLibraryUUID"="1bfd8950-c846-46cf-bd50-55150a16bab3" "itemName"="photon-ova"
E0917 12:08:23.060998 1 contentsource_controller.go:203] controllers/ContentSource "msg"="failed to get VirtualMachineImage from content library" "error"="POST https://vcsa.tanzu.local:443/rest/com/vmware/content/library/item/download-session: 500 Internal Server Error" "clProviderName"="a298369b-7239-4b1c-988f-d361e5a001d6" "clProviderUUID"="a298369b-7239-4b1c-988f-d361e5a001d6"
E0917 12:08:23.061011 1 contentsource_controller.go:203] controllers/ContentSource "msg"="failed to get VirtualMachineImage from content library" "error"="POST https://vcsa.tanzu.local:443/rest/com/vmware/content/library/item/download-session: 500 Internal Server Error" "clProviderName"="1bfd8950-c846-46cf-bd50-55150a16bab3" "clProviderUUID"="1bfd8950-c846-46cf-bd50-55150a16bab3"
E0917 12:08:23.061032 1 contentsource_controller.go:401] controllers/ContentSource "msg"="Error in syncing image from the content provider" "error"="POST https://vcsa.tanzu.local:443/rest/com/vmware/content/library/item/download-session: 500 Internal Server Error" "name"="1bfd8950-c846-46cf-bd50-55150a16bab3"
E0917 12:08:23.061079 1 controller.go:317] controller/contentsource "msg"="Reconciler error" "error"="POST https://vcsa.tanzu.local:443/rest/com/vmware/content/library/item/download-session: 500 Internal Server Error" "name"="1bfd8950-c846-46cf-bd50-55150a16bab3" "namespace"="" "reconciler group"="vmoperator.vmware.com" "reconciler kind"="ContentSource"
E0917 12:08:23.061123 1 contentsource_controller.go:401] controllers/ContentSource "msg"="Error in syncing image from the content provider" "error"="POST https://vcsa.tanzu.local:443/rest/com/vmware/content/library/item/download-session: 500 Internal Server Error" "name"="a298369b-7239-4b1c-988f-d361e5a001d6"
E0917 12:08:23.061165 1 controller.go:317] controller/contentsource "msg"="Reconciler error" "error"="POST https://vcsa.tanzu.local:443/rest/com/vmware/content/library/item/download-session: 500 Internal Server Error" "name"="a298369b-7239-4b1c-988f-d361e5a001d6" "namespace"="" "reconciler group"="vmoperator.vmware.com" "reconciler kind"="ContentSource"

I was running out of ideas and things to try and I decided to look at the content library configuration to see if I had missed something.

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Categories // VMware Tanzu, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0 Tags // content library, ovf, vSphere with Tanzu

ESXi on Intel NUC 12 Pro (Wall Street Canyon)

09.15.2022 by William Lam // 139 Comments

Many in the VMware Community, including myself, started with the classic 4x4 Intel NUC for running a VMware homelab. Over the years, this powerful little Intel NUC continues to enable a wide variety of new VMware use cases from running vSphere, vSAN, NSX, Tanzu and even vRealize (now Aria). It felt like it was just yesterday that I had switched from using an Apple Mac Mini to the latest Intel NUC (6th Generation) to build my new vSphere/vSAN Homelab, which was more than 6 years ago! 😲

While Intel continues to expand and grow their "NUC" portfolio to include many other form factors, the classic 4x4 design still has a special place for many people in the VMware community. The classic Intel NUC is not only small, portable but also extremely capable, especially with last few releases which makes this an ideal kit for those just getting started with a new VMware Homelab.

If you are in the market for an upgrade this year, definitely check out the latest refresh of this classic 4x4 design with Intel's recent launch of the Intel NUC 12 Pro, formally known as the Wall Street Canyon NUC.

Let's take a closer look at this new Intel NUC 😀

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Categories // ESXi, Home Lab, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0 Tags // Intel NUC, Wall Street Canyon

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William Lam is a Senior Staff Solution Architect working in the VMware Cloud team within the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) at VMware. He focuses on Cloud Native, Automation, Integration and Operation for the VMware Cloud based Software Defined Datacenters (SDDC) across Private, Hybrid and Public Cloud

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