When you create a network extension, you have the option to enable Mobility Optimized Networking (MON). MON can help to reduce network latency between VMs that have been migrated to a network extension and other network resources at the same site as that extension. By default, a VM that has been migrated to an extended …
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If you have come to a point where you no longer need a specific Site to be included in your HCX+ inventory, you’ll find that the process to remove it is fairly easy. You will start from the bottom of your configuration and work your way up. If you have any VMs that live on …
If you’ve gone through the steps in my previous HCX+ posts, you should be at a point where you can test a VM migration. There is a three-tier app running in Site A (Sofia in this example), with VMs whose names all start with “dist”. These VMs are all on NSX-backed segments that have been …
Assuming you enabled the Network Extension Service when you created the Site Pair, you should now be able to extend one or more networks. This will allow you to migrate VMs from one site to another without worrying about having to change their network configuration or manually configuring any new networking infrastructure at the destination …
I’ve written a few posts in the past about using packages (previously extensions) within the context of TGK clusters installed on vSphere (Upgrading from TKG 1.3 to 1.4 (including extensions) on vSphere, How to configure external-dns with Microsoft DNS in TKG 1.3 (plus Harbor and Contour), Working with TKG Extensions and Shared Services in TKG …
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Following up on my previous post, vSphere 8 with Tanzu and NSX Installation, you’ll find that one of the first things you can do with Workload Management deployed is to create and use Namespaces in the Supervisor cluster. Note: Please refer to the My Environment section in my previous post, vSphere 8 with Tanzu and …
I’ve been using vSphere with Tanzu for various purposes over the last few years but have never done a complete walkthrough of the installation. With the recent release of vSphere 8 and NSX 4.1, I decided now was a great time to take that on. My Environment The following lays out some of the configuration …
I’ve stepped away from many of the Tanzu products for the last few months but was recently asked by one of my coworkers who supports Tanzu Observability if we could get an instance of Tanzu Application Service (TAS) running in a vSphere environment with NSX-T networking. I had never used this particular product before but …
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Windows workloads on Kubernetes have been supported as a beta feature in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition for some time but with the release of TKGI 1.9, it’s finally a GA feature. It is only supported on vSphere with NSX-T networking though so keep that in mind before heading down this road. I’ll walk you …
I recently had an opportunity to run though a massive upgrade effort of a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI, formerly Enterprise PKS) installation from 1.7 to 1.8. This also included a vSphere upgrade from 6.7 U3 to 7.0b and an NSX-T upgrade from 2.5.1 to 3.0.1. TKGI 1.8 was just released on June 30th …
