Backing up the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is crucial for maintaining the integrity and availability of your virtual infrastructure. The recommended and most effective method for backing up the VCSA is to utilize its built-in backup and restore functionality.
PowerCLI is a PowerShell-based command-line interface developed by VMware for managing and automating VMware vSphere environments. It provides a comprehensive set of tools. It allows IT professionals to automate various aspects of vSphere management, including virtual machines (VMs), networking, storage, and guest operating systems.
This a second part of the deployment vSphere IaaS Control Plane with Avi Load Balancer and VDS. In this post, we will enable Workload Management, create vSphere namespace and a cluster. Also, I’m going to deploy 3 tier app inside the Kubernetes workload cluster.
vSphere IaaS Control Plane with VMware Avi Load Balancer and vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) provides a robust architecture for managing and delivering containerized applications in a virtualized environment. This setup, enables unified environment where Kubernetes applications can run alongside with traditional virtual machines. Administrators can deploy K8S workload clusters directly on vSphere environment. For some time, this product was know as vSphere with Tanzu or Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service, aka TKGs.
VMware Aria Operations is a tool for monitoring infrastructure, virtual machines, predict resource demands or costs and more. Most of you want to visualize, provide logs and information from the VMware vCenter Server.
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