October 2021

Revisiting installing vSphere with Tanzu while using NSX Advanced Load Balancer

In my earlier post, Deploying vSphere 7.0 U2 with Tanzu while using NSX Advanced Load Balancer, I conducted a thorough walkthrough of the process of installing vSphere with Tanzu while using NSX Advanced Load Balancer (NSX ALB) for load balancer services. While vSphere 7.0 U3 does not differ too largely from 7.0 U2, I wanted …

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Revisiting installing NSX Advanced Load Balancer for use with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and vSphere with Tanzu

Several months ago, I did a walkthrough of installing NSX Advanced Load Balancer (NSX ALB) for use with both Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) and vSphere with Tanzu. This was on the 20.1.3 version and there have been a few updates since then. I also wrote a post on upgrading NSX ALB a month later but …

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Using multiple availability zones for a workload cluster in TKG 1.4 on vSphere

Before TKG 1.4, when you provisioned workload clusters on vSphere, the nodes mostly ended up randomly spread out across the available ESXi hosts. This wouldn’t provide the best experience when you’re planning for DR scenarios and want to ensure some redundancy. There is now the ability to spread nodes across multiple clusters within a single …

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Upgrading a TKGI 1.11 Management Console installation to 1.12

I’ve been through several TKGI installs over the last couple of years but not too many upgrades. The last time I went through one was going from 1.7 to 1.8, as documented in my previous post, A Walk-through of Upgrading Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (Enterprise PKS) from 1.7 to 1.8. Much has changed since …

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