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Quick Tip - Retrieving NSX segment information from vCenter Server

06.07.2024 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

Since vSphere 7.0, it has been much simpler to correlate between an NSX network segment defined in NSX Manager and its representation as a vSphere Distributed Virtual Portgroup (DVG) in vCenter Server as demonstrated in screenshot below using the vSphere UI.


With the additional NSX information such as NSX Transport Zone ID, Transport Zone ID Name, Logical Switch ID, Segment Name and VNI (Virtual Network Identifier), users can streamline debugging and troubleshooting issues with their network team by quickly providing this relevant information.

I recently had a user ask about retrieving the VNI information for a given NSX segment in vCenter Server using PowerCLI, so here is a quick snippet including other NSX information for those interested.

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Categories // Automation, NSX, PowerCLI, VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere 8.0 Tags // NSX, PowerCLI, VMware Cloud Foundation

PowerCLI automation for VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA (PAIF-N)

04.02.2024 by William Lam // 2 Comments

With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.1.1, customers can now take advantage of the new VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA (PAIF-N) solution, providing an optimized and validated platform by NVIDIA for running modern AL/ML workloads on VCF. To learn more about the PAIF-N solution for VCF, there is a comprehensive PAIF-N Guide that includes the full software build-of-materials (BOM) as well as a step-by-step implementation guide for deploying the solution.

If you are interested in exploring the new PAIF-N solution, I recently came to learn the PowerCLI team have created some really useful PowerCLI scripts which fully automates the deployment of PAIF-N and makes setting up the environment a breeze!

There are 4 PowerCLI scripts that is included in the PAIF-N automation:

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Categories // Automation, PowerCLI, Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA, VMware Cloud Foundation Tags // NVIDA, PAIF-N, PowerCLI, VCF, VMware Cloud Foundation

Automated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Workload Domain deployment using PowerVCF

02.13.2024 by William Lam // 4 Comments

Using my Automated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Lab Deployment script, you can quickly get to a functional VCF Management Domain which includes deploying the required Nested ESXi VMs and the Cloud Builder appliance, end-to-end automated deployment .


After recently enhancing the script to support the latest VCF 5.1 release and enabling users to also specify the Nested ESXi VMs that can be used to setup a VCF Workload Domain, I wanted to take it one step further and also automate the VCF Workload Domain deployment and utilizing the infrastructure that was setup in the initial deployment script.

Previously, if you wanted to create a Workload Domain, you would need to deploy the required Nested ESXi VMs, commission the ESXi hosts into SDDC Manager and then either use the Workload Domain creation wizard in SDDC Manager or manually construct the required JSON configuration file for an automated installation.

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Categories // Automation, PowerCLI, VMware Cloud Foundation Tags // PowerCLI, PowerVCF, VCF, VMware Cloud Foundation

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