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Identifying vSphere with Tanzu Managed VMs

04.25.2024 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

With an increasing number of customers enabling the vSphere with Tanzu capability, which is included in both VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), more and more Virtual Machines will be deployed using the more modern approach of declarative provisioning using the powerful VM Service feature.


When using the vSphere UI, you can easily distinguish between a vSphere with Tanzu managed VM from a traditional VM by checking whether it is provisioned within a vSphere Namespace or whether it contains the "Developer Managed" label as shown in the screenshot above.

However, how do you identify a vSphere with Tanzu managed VM when using the vSphere API for Automation purposes?

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Categories // Automation, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Tanzu, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0 Tags // VM Service, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0, vSphere Kubernetes Service

Quick Tip - New remote version of ESXCLI 8.x

09.08.2023 by William Lam // 1 Comment

I was recently made aware of a nice update from our developers that we now have a new version of the remote ESXCLI utility that is much simpler to install across any operating system and is fully backwards compatibility with ESXi hosts running 6.7.x, 7.x and 8.x.

Many of you are probably familiar with the local version of ESXCLI which is available when connecting to ESXi whether that is over SSH or directly in the ESXi Console. However, a remote version of ESXCLI has been available since the introduction of ESXCLI back in vSphere 4.0, but surprisingly, I still come across users who never knew that this was possible!

In the past, the remote version of ESXCLI was platform specific and it was distributed in a number of diffrent ways from being bundled as part of the vSphere CLI (6.7) to being a standalone download (7.0) and this inconsistency brought many challenges, not just from an internal development standpoint but also operationally for users who needed to deploy this utility across their administrative systems.

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Categories // Automation, ESXCLI, vSphere, vSphere 8.0 Tags // esxcli, vSphere 6.7, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0

Quick Tip - Automating allowed and not allowed Datastores for use with vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS)

01.25.2023 by William Lam // 5 Comments

One of the recent features of the vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) is the ability configure the vSphere Datastores that vCLS is allowed to use to provision the required service VMs, which can be on a vSphere Cluster under Configure->vSphere Cluster Services->Datastores as shown in the screenshot below.


In addition to the vSphere UI, you can also programmatically update this configuration using the vSphere API and with tools like PowerCLI as one of the interfaces to the API.

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Categories // Automation, PowerCLI, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0 Tags // vCLS, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0

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