While VMware Cloud Director is a powerful and easy way to provide a multi-tenant environment to clients for service providers, often client will want to bring their own networking and load balancing technologies to the environment. This is the philosophy of “use what you know” and I strongly recommend it,…

Back in 2022, VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1 introduced API Tokens. This allows a user the ability to generate API tokens for programmatic access to VMware Cloud Director. An automation script or 3rd-party solution can then use the API token to make API requests to Cloud Director on behalf of the…

Today I sat and passed VMware Exam 2V0-33.22 to obtain the certification VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud 2023. In this post I’ll list the resources I used to study for the exam to help you on your journey to this certification. It’s relatively new so not a lot of material is…

So recently I was working with a client who was attempting to convert an Oracle Linux OVA to run on ESXi, and asked for some suggestions. Of course, my first thought was don’t, but that’s a topic for a different post. Instead I suggested given the lack of time they…

Earlier this week on January 30th, 2023 the first iteration of the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions speciality exam training material went live. This is following the release of the actual exam about two weeks prior, but I did not want to write about it until the training material was…

One of the great advantages of IBM Cloud VMware as a Service – single tenant over the previous IBM Cloud VMware Solutions Shared offering is that it allows for you to bring your own licenses (BYOL) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows. Through this you are able to take…

In my last few posts (located here and here) I’ve talked about setting up a IPSec VPN between on-premise devices and VMware Cloud Director, specifically to IBM Cloud VMware as a Service. I’ve also written about starting to use Terraform as part of your deployment, located here. The question is…

Last week I covered setting up a VPN between IBM Cloud VMware as a Service and a Juniper vSRX. The purpose of this guide is to provide a quick guided tutorial that can be used to demonstrate the basic initial steps of connecting via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) a…

This post provides a quick tutorial that demonstrates the basic steps of connecting via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) a VMware as a Service – single tenant instance with a Juniper vSRX. The vSRX can either be deployed in IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure or in a client datacenter. The steps…

At VMware Explore 2022 Europe I was privileged to assist the team in announcing IBM’s new VMware offering – VMware as a Service. While this offering provides a great combination of the ease of a managed service combined with the security and performance of dedicated hardware, it also provides a…