Are you ready to dive into the world of Cloud Native applications and discover the real scoop on what works and what doesn’t? Join Orhan Biyiklioglu & I at VM Explore Barcelona for a session that promises to be enlightening and inspiring: “Unleash the Power of Cloud Native – Insights from a Leading Cloud Provider [MAPB1236BCN].” Session Details: Title: Unleash the Power of Cloud Native – Insights from a Leading Cloud Provider [MAPB1236BCN] Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Nov 7 | 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM CET | Hall 8.0, Room 33 Session Overview: In this session, you will get an exclusive peek into V ..read more

Delivering K8s as a Service had been a popular ask by many of our VMware Cloud Providers lately, where many has already started their journey with such offering, others are still looking where to start. We have been working closely with many of our providers to bring their K8s as a Service to market with great success. VMware Cloud Providers who are approaching their Kubernetes as a Service offering often had the following questions on their mind: How can they build a solid Kubernetes as-a-Service offering based on VMware Tanzu? How can they spread their K8s as a Service installation across m ..read more

Proud to be a part of the team who had worked hard over the past year on getting VMware Cloud Director Multi-Cloud Extension to the beta stage. This unique extension will allow VMware Cloud Director to enter a new era beyond where many saw VMware Cloud Director venturing. Welcome VMware Cloud Director to the Multi-Cloud Space. I am sure many of our Cloud Providers will be excited about this extension. Some of you have been asking if VMware Cloud Director will be getting multi-cloud capabilities and this extension beta is a part of our efforts on that. While VCD federation with VMware Cloud Dir ..read more

After upgrading my home lab to VMware Cloud Director 10.3, I started having Remote Console issues. While searching online, it sounds to affect many others and though I will share the two issues I have and how to resolve them. The first one, I kept getting the following error when trying to access VMware Remote Console “Connection error: could not negotiate SSL.”, as shown below: For those who are more of a Web Console users, I just kept getting a disconnected error every time I try to connect using it as shown below. Alright, so now you have the same problem. How to resolve it? It sounds lik ..read more

The release of VMware Cloud Director 10.3.2 brings some exciting new features for our Cloud providers. Here I will highlight the most anticipated ones, which I think many of my Cloud Providers will find appealing. VMware Cloud Director GPU as a Service (GPUaaS) VMware Cloud Director GPU as a Service (GPUaaS) allows customers to use the processing power of NVIDIA managed vGPU by leveraging the VMware Cloud Director without the need of purchasing dedicated high-end GPUs. The capability is focused on general purpose AI/ML with compatible Nvidia hardware. Cloud Director multi-tenanted v ..read more

While I was installing VMware Cloud Director 10.3 in my home lab, I have received the error “OS Configuration Phase has failed.”. This happened as I tried to access the configuration page at https://<My VCD IP:5480 at the first reboot after deploying the appliance from an OVA. Here is a screenshot of the actual error: Checking the /opt/vmware/var/log/firstboot as instructed in the error, and I found: 2021-10-27 17:33:16 | Updating /etc/hosts file ... 2021-10-27 17:33:16 | System hostname is: photon-machine 2021-10-27 17:33:16 | [ERROR] Hostname was not updated via dns reverse-lookup. Fail ..read more

VMworld 2021 is here, and as you would expect many big announcements are in the making. As it’s easy to get lost between Arctic, Ensemble, Capitola, Cascade, Monterey, Radium projects announcements, so here is small summary about each one. It can help as well in case you missed one of them or looking for more details:- Project Arctic:- Project Arctic will bring multi-cloud to the fingertips of vSphere customers, by natively integrating cloud connectivity into vSphere – making vSphere cloud-aware, and making hybrid cloud the “default” operating model.  Millions of IT Admins who use vCente ..read more

On June 4, 2021 VMware Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) has become available to our VCPP Cloud Provider. It is a quite exciting news to many of our Managed Service Providers that are trying to offer Kubernetes added services across Multi-Cloud. Tanzu Mission Control will help unlocks new opportunities for VMware cloud providers to offer Kubernetes (K8s) managed services for a multi-cloud. TMC can manage multi-tenant K8s clusters created on VMware Cloud Director (VCD) in addition to any CNCF conformant K8s clusters on public clouds as well. This includes the native K8s implementation at hyperscaler ..read more

While trying to Connect my VMware Cloud Director to my Tanzu Kubernetes Grid environment (TKGS) in vSphere 7 update 2, I kept hitting a certificate error. The error presented itself during the step to configure the Kubernetes policy for my Provider VDC. After following the wizard at: Resources ==Cloud Resources ==Provider VDCs ==Kubernetes. The Wizard goes properly till I get to the Machine Classes tab which is where VMware Cloud Director get to check on the certificate of the supervisor cluster. That when the below error present itself: “VMware Cloud Director cannot verify the Kubernetes API ..read more

My colleague Guy Bartram had been leading over 30 VMware Cloud Providers focused sessions where he host a different expert on each. I was hosted previously on the Bitnami and App Launchpad Feature Friday previously. I highly recommend every VMware Cloud Provider to take a look at these sessions and subscribe to the VMware Feature Fridays Youtube Channel. Below are the list of feature Friday available as of the day this article is written. Please refer to the above link for the VMware Feature Fridays Youtube Chanel link above to keep updated with newer sessions: Feature Friday Episode 33 – Ter ..read more