Bits, Bytes, & Radio Waves

A quiet journey through discovery and understanding.

  • VMware Identity Manager and NSX Advanced Load Balancer (ALB)

    Overview You think there would be plenty of good resources documenting this, but I couldn’t find one. I found all kinds of resources for configuring against a Horizon environment, though. In this post, I am deploying a VMware Identity Manager cluster from an Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (LCM). This is my configuration of setting up…

  • MyLab: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Edge Node Cluster Diagram

    Overview I am not much of a drawer, so this is the best that I could come up with. The Tier-0 Gateway is a logical gateway, it is backed by the edge-node-1 virtual machine and edge-node-2 virtual machine. The two Edge transport Nodes are part of an Edge Cluster, called vcf-edge-cluster, but I did not…

  • VCF Legacy Certificate Management

    Overview If you are here, you are probably trying to install certificates and all you see or have seen for hours is, “Certificate installation is in progress.” If you think it’s not working, you are probably correct. Hopefully after reviewing this post, you will be able to have properly installed certificates.

Notes from practice

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Aaron Rombaut

Technologist & Writer