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Quick Tip - How to deploy OVF/OVA to multiple networks using OVFTool?

03.16.2022 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

For automation purposes, customers use the handy OVFTool, which is a multi-platform command-line utility for uploading or exporting OVF/OVA images. During an upload, users would typically specify the --network argument which will assign the desired vSphere Network to the deployed VM and if the VM included multiple network adapters, it would assign the same network which can then be modified during post-deployment.

What if you had a OVF/OVA that included multiple network adapters and you wanted a different network for each adapter? Luckily, this is also supported with OVFTool by using the --nic argument, which expects the network name as codified within the OVF/OVA to tell OVFTool which vSphere Network to assign. You can find OVF/OVA network name by simply running OVFTool command against the OVF/OVA without any arguments and you should see the name as shown in the screenshot below.


Note: The network name in the OVF/OVA MUST be unique to be able to assign different networks during upload.

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Categories // Automation, OVFTool Tags // ovftool

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

Categories // Automation, vSphere Tags // VMware Event Broker Appliance

New VMware Community HCL

03.07.2022 by William Lam // 12 Comments

If you are not using or can not use the official VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) to identify hardware systems and components that are officially supported with a given version of vSphere ESXi, then the experience in finding hardware can be quite daunting for both new and even existing users. Typically, users might start off by searching online or posting in the VMTN Community Forums and although I have attempted to help in this space with my VMware Community Homelab project, which attempts to crowd source working configuration and build-of-materials (BOM) that can assist, it certainly is a big challenge.

Even if you are successful in the initial assessment, there are no guarantees that your hardware configuration will be compatible with future vSphere ESXi releases and the investigative process will likely have to start all over again or simply with trial and error, which can also be frustrating for new users. I have always wanted and I know many of you in the community have also expressed similiar options in having a VMware Community HCL that can be used and maintain by the community.

Today, I am excited to share that we now have a platform that can enable an "unofficial" VMware Community HCL!

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Categories // ESXi, Home Lab Tags // hcl, homelab

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