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VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) v0.7.2

03.09.2022 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

The VEBA team is excited to share that we have just published our v0.7.2 release, which is a minor release and contains a number of enhancements as well as fixes that our users had observed in earlier v0.7.x releases. Highlighted below are some of new user facing capabilities along few of the backend updates. For a detailed change log, please refer to the v0.7.2 release notes.

What's New:

  • New Knative PowerCLI template (quickly get started on building new functions)
  • PowerShell Slack Function enhancement to be event agnostic + customizable message
  • New PowerCLI example function (here and here) to enforce VDS & DVPortgroup configs
  • Syslog now captures all logs via Fluentbit
  • RabbitMQ (triggers) now supports function scaling to scale out when there's a burst of events
  • Added Let's Encrypt documentation
  • Various Fixes

Backend Updates:

  • Updated OS to latest Photon OS 4.0 Rev2
  • Updated Knative Serving/Eventing stack to v1.1.0
  • Updated Kubernetes to v1.21.5
  • Migrated container runtime from Docker to Containerd
  • Pipeline and automation overhaul, publishing artifacts to GCR for scale and address docker rate limit issues
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Categories // Automation, vSphere Tags // VMware Event Broker Appliance

Creating a VMFS datastore greater than 2TB on a USB device in ESXi

02.04.2022 by William Lam // 4 Comments

I recently had an inquiry from one of our Technical Account Managers (TAM) with an interesting question from their customer. They were looking to manually migrate VMs from one environment to another and because these were isolated and secured environments, they were looking to use an encrypted USB device that would be formatted with VMFS. While researching this topic, they came across several mentions in the community that VMFS on USB has a 2TB limitation, which was not going to work for them.

I personally have never tried nor had the need to ever create a VMFS datastore that was greater than 2TB on a USB device, but I have certainly heard simliar claims in the past and this finally piqued my interests. I reached out to a few folks within VMware Engineering that works on our USB stack and came to learn that is no such limitation when using VMFS on USB. In fact, they also pointed out that some of the reported errors in the community was most likely due to hardware issues rather than capacity of the underlying USB device. This was actually great news and of course I wanted to verify for myself before replying back.

First off, VMFS on USB is NOT officially supported by VMware, so I just want to make sure that is clear. With that said, this is a fairly common practice within the community, especially for VMware Homelabs which I have also demonstrated this capability as early as 2011 and most recently in 2015 for use with vSAN and in 2020 for a vSAN Witness with ESXi on Arm. While most USB storage devices, especially those found in the consumer space are not durable enough for Enterprise usage, it does NOT mean you can not have a reliable USB storage device. I actually wrote about this topic a few years back where you can use inexpensive M.2 enclosures to house an NVMe device that can then be connected via USB/USB-C to have a more reliable storage medium that can also be cost effective.

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PowerShell community module for Application Transformer for VMware Tanzu

02.03.2022 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

In the previous blog post, we explored the Application Transformer for VMware Tanzu REST API and how it can be used for automation and more advanced workflows. To simplify the consumption of the App Transformer REST API and how I started to explore and learn about the APIs, I created a PowerShell module for App Transformer that implements a number of the App Transformer REST API that can easily be consumed using the following functions:

  • Connect-AppTransformer
  • Get-AppTransformerApplication
  • Get-AppTransformerComponent
  • Get-AppTransformerComponentSignature
  • Get-AppTransformerCredential
  • Get-AppTransformerNetworkInsight
  • Get-AppTransformerVCenter
  • Get-AppTransformerVM
  • New-AppTransformerCredential
  • New-AppTransformerCredentialAssociation
  • New-AppTransformerNetworkInsightCloud
  • New-AppTransformerVCenter
  • Remove-AppTransformerCredential
  • Start-AppTransformerIntrospection


🥳 To help celebrate the official GA of Application Transformer for VMware Tanzu today, I have just published my PowerShell Community Module for App Transformer into the PowerShell Gallery!

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Categories // Automation, Cloud Native, PowerCLI, VMware Tanzu, vSphere Tags // Application Transformer, powershell

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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 technologies, Automation, Integration and Operation for the VMware Cloud based Software Defined Datacenters (SDDC)

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