A Technology Journey
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.
Continue reading “The Frugal Administrator: A Minimal Nested VMware VCF Lab”The following post is very long and will contain updates as the technology changes and I figure out better ways to accomplish these tasks. VMware Cloud Foundation, or VCF, requires at least four nodes for the Management Domain. Unfortunately, I do not have hundreds of thousands of dollars for physical hardware to test and learn VCF.
Since this is a nested lab, there are a few things that will need to be set up to make this work. These items, in particular networking, have to be configured in a way to allow the nested virtual machines to communicate. This is not applicable in production where the physical hosts are cabled into Top of Rack switches.
Continue reading “Building a Nested ESXi Lab for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) (updated 2023-Dec)”