In some cases we need to reinstall ESXi host. To avoid time consuming setting up servers, we can quickly backup and restore host configuration. To achieve this, there are three possible ways: ESXi command line, vSphere CLI or PowerCLI
In this article I will show how backup and restore host configuration data using ESXi command line.
VMware Aria Operations (ex vROps Operations) is a powerful tool for monitoring infrastructure, virtual machines, predict resource demands or costs. Use cases is much more. One of them is ability to visualize, provide logs and information from the Tanzu Kuberentes Grid clusters. To obtain insightful data from the nodes you need to use dedicated addon – Management Pack for Kubernetes.
Troubleshooting of the cluster failure can be very demanding. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to fix the fault, we often report it to the support. VMware support, usually want from us to generate log bundle from that cluster.
TKG cluster can be deployed in a many ways. You can use simple YAML file and run it from the Supervisor. You can use some automation tool like Jenkins or create Kubernetes nodes from the TMC.
Apart from that, Terraform has a dedicated Tanzu Mission Control provider (plugin) to automate many processes.
vSphere 8.0 U2 brings many improvements, fixes several problems and increases stability. After upgrading from vSphere 8.0 U1 to U2, there are some changes in vSAN as well. If vSAN cluster is running on the infrastructure, you need to rise disk version when you’re running the newest vSphere.
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