VMware Cloud Director: Deployment and Initial Configuration

Overview

I stood up a nested VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) lab and decided to delve into the world of VMware Cloud Director. I ran into a couple issues and wanted to make sure that I documented them here so that I do not run into them again in the future. I have a good feeling that this will be the first of many posts regarding this technology.

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The Frugal Administrator: A Minimal Nested VMware VCF Lab

Overview

I have other posts on my site here for more built out installations of VMware VCF. However, while I was researching a build script for a recent nested installation I was building, I came across a post on William Lam’s website about a single host VMware VCF install. This surely piqued my interest and I decided I would give this a go and document all the pieces I have found in my research and own learning.

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Nested VMware NSX

Disclaimer:

While I worked for VMware from March 2019 and up until the Broadcom acquisition in November 2023, and continued on with Broadcom, this post (and website as a whole) is solely for my purposes and in no way represents VMware or Broadcom’s views or best practices. Heck, for all I know, this is accidentally working in my lab. Either way, VMware nor Broadcom are officially backing this post.

Introduction

It’s odd to me that I have been a part of the virtual world for quite a while now and have just finally come to terms that I really should figure out the basics of VMware NSX. With Broadcom’s shift to pushing VMware VCF, this just makes sense. However, even with a Cisco CCNA certification under my belt for the last seven years and working with networking equipment for the past ten years, VMware NSX continues to confuse me and only recently am I starting to make sense of it.

Hopefully this post will help others out there that are trying to learn VMware NSX and the nuances that go long with it, especially in a nested lab.

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Configuring Smart Card | Common Access Card (CAC) | Personal Identity Verification (PIV) in VMware vSphere and VMware Horizon

Overview

I use a YubiKey 5Ci (by Yubico) in my lab. This allows me to log in with a smart card interface. If you are looking for information on how to configure smart card access in your lab, please reference the following post: MyLab: Smart Card Authentication

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