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Beta for VMware Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI) formally Project Cascade

09.30.2022 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

When Project Pacific was first announced back in 2019, most of the focus was on Kubernetes and how it would be re-architected into vSphere, basically the "how" or the implementation details. As much as I enjoy diving into the tech, what really stood out to me about Project Pacific was the implication it would have on workload evolution for vSphere.

In fact, I wrote about this very topic in this blog post: Project Pacific - Workload Evolution in vSphere because I felt that most of the focus was only on the "how" but not the "why". Here is a quote from the blog that summarizes why I was excited for Project Pacific:

However, Project Pacific is actually more than just Kubernetes but with all the new lingo like Supervisor and Guest Clusters, one can easily get lost in the implementation or what I would refer to as the "how" part of Project Pacific. If you ask me, the "why" part is much more significant and Project Pacific is fundamentally re-defining what and how to deploy a workload in vSphere.

Fast forward to today, vSphere with Tanzu has been delivering on the vision of Project Pacific since its introduction with vSphere 7 back in 2020. Developers, DevOps and Platform Engineering teams can easily deploy workloads like Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Clusters (TKC) or Virtual Machines into a vSphere Cluster that has been enabled with vSphere with Tanzu, also known as a Supervisor Cluster.

While the current vSphere with Tanzu experience works well for most environments with a handful of Supervisor Clusters, but what happens when you need to support more users, teams and an increased number of Supervisor Clusters across different locations? How do you manage access control for these users and the compute resources that they can consume while providing a simple and intuitive developer ready interface? This is where VMware Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI), formally known as Project Cascade comes in!

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Categories // Aria, Automation, Kubernetes, VMware Cloud, VMware Tanzu, vSphere 8.0 Tags // Cloud Consumption Interface, VMware Cloud, vSphere 7.0 Update 3, vSphere 8.0, vSphere with Tanzu

Quick Tip - Avoid network conflicts with Docker Bridge Network on the vCenter Cloud Gateway for vSphere+/vSAN+

07.12.2022 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

The new vSphere+/vSAN+ cloud service is now generally available for all customers! For those interested, I recently wrote about my first experience using the new vSphere+vSAN+ service with my vSphere Homelab environment, which I will also be updating based on the generally available service.

In addition to the resources above and in the VMC Cloud Console, here is a link to the official vSphere+/vSAN+ documentation including pre-req.

During my initial deployment of the vCenter Cloud Gateway (VCGW) used by the vSphere+/vSAN+ service, I did not run into any issues but upon deploying my second VCGW for a different environment, I ran into some networking issues. After a bit of debugging, I came to learnĀ  that the VCGW application and services are composed of various Docker containers and there was a network conflict with the default Docker Bridge Network that the VCGW has been configured by default with.

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Categories // VMware Cloud, vSphere 7.0 Tags // vCenter Cloud Gateway, VMware Cloud

A first look at the new vSphere+ & vSAN+ Cloud Service

07.01.2022 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

vSphere+ and vSAN+ was just announced this week and if you have not heard the news, I recommend checking out this blog post (includes a nice video with testimonials from early customers and partners) that goes into greater details for the new vSphere+ and vSAN+ offering (hint, it is more than just a subscription). If you prefer audio, the Unexplored Territory crew also covered the vSphere+ and vSAN+ news in their latest podcast Episode #20.

I was also curious about how this new VMware Cloud service would work and rather than reading about it, I had the opportunity to kick the tires and I figure I might as well try it out on my own personal vSphere homelab!

wow, that was easy! Just registered my on-prem vCenter Server to @vmwarecloud and converted to the new @VMwarevSphere+ & @vmwarevsan+ subscription service (Dev Env)! pic.twitter.com/CtauidnhkF

— William Lam (@lamw) June 30, 2022

Although I was using our Staging/Development environment for my setup as the new VMware Cloud service has not officially GA'ed, it should give folks an idea of what to expect. I also wanted to share some additional insights and considerations that I had came across for this upcoming new service.

UPDATE (07/25/22) - The free trial for the new vSphere+/vSAN+ service is now available, you can sign up for a 15 day trial at https://vmc.vmware.com/infrastructure/vsphere-plus/overview

Here is your 1st look at the new VMware Cloud vSphere+ and vSAN+ Service!

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Categories // VMware Cloud, VSAN, vSphere Tags // VMware Cloud, VSAN, vSphere

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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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