Bits, Bytes, & Radio Waves

A quiet journey through discovery and understanding.

Technology

  • iXsystems TrueNAS CORE and VMware

    Overview iXsystems publishes a White Paper, titled TrueNAS for VMware, which provides Best Practices for VMware. In this post, I am going to breakdown each of the best practices with an example. Hopefully this will help others, newcomers and experts, alike, at an optimally configured TrueNAS. For me, it will help ease the pain of…

  • Networking with Nested ESXi Hosts

    Overview I recently had to add an additional host to my lab as I was running out of compute (thank you VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and all the things…Aria Suite (specifically the clustered VMware Identity Manager), NSX, Avi Load Balancer). In addition to getting the additional host, I was fortunate enough to also upgrade the…

  • VMware Cloud Foundation Bringup – Resolving VCF_ERROR_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR

    Overview I was rebuilding my nested VCF Lab and after only four items of validation, I received a Failed status. Well okay, sometimes that happens. I re-ran it and received the same error. I checked the JSON file for anything out of sorts and didn’t see anything, so I thought maybe I will re-use the…