New Fling: Easy Deploy for NSX Load Balancing a.k.a EasyAvi

When customers start using cloud infrastructure, there are five key networking components they want to replicate within their virtual cloud environment: Router Switch Firewall VPN Load-Balancer Out-of-the-box, VMware Cloud on AWS gives you the first four components but the Load-Balancing was somehow lacking. Yes, we could use virtual appliances from vendors like F5. Yes, we […]

Mini-post: Dev_overrides Terraform Block

I have blogged in the past about the various options you can use a ‘custom’ Terraform provider – that is to say, a private or experimental provider not hosted on the Terraform Registry. There are many ways to achieve this but in the latest 0.14 Terraform version, there is a great option that makes it […]

Fixed Network Segment vs Flexible Network Segment in NSX-T

This post will cover some caveats with regards to NSX-T segments and APIs. I will focus on VMware Cloud on AWS and Terraform but many of the comments will also apply to standard NSX-T. Let’s go through a concrete example. Creating a Network Segment with Terraform Most of the Terraform for NSX-T examples I have […]

My Monthly Roundup – February 2021

Second edition of my monthly roundup! Customer Engagements With my role changing recently, I am less involved directly with UK customers but I tend to work with any customers worldwide around discussions on automation or advanced networking and security. I also focus on being a bridge between our customers and our product teams, to ensure […]

Automated Consumption of the VMware Marketplace

Since I last blogged about the VMware Cloud Marketplace, a lot of has happened with this service: they’ve merged it with the VSX (VMware Solution Exchange) and renamed it to VMware Marketplace (see the announcement). I hadn’t had many reasons and opportunities to use it but I’ve been thinking about the whole VM provisioning recently […]

New Fling: SDDC Import/Export for VMware Cloud on AWS

Today (8th February 2021), I’m delighted to announce the release of our new Fling : SDDC Import/Export for VMware Cloud on AWS. A common request from VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS customers and partners is the ability to save the configuration of a VMC environment (a Software-Defined Data Center – SDDC) and restoring it to […]

Terraform for VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud

My favourite tech trends of the past 5-10 years would probably be (in no particular order): Serverless & Function-As-A-Service Infrastructure-As-Code Software-Defined WAN So when my buddy Antoine told me he had written his own custom Terraform provider with VMware SD-WAN (by VeloCloud), I had to try out: not only it combines some of my favourite […]

PyVMC Update: Release 1.2

The Python Client for VMware Cloud on AWS has had a few minor upgrades over the past few months. It’s been great to hear that more and more customers that are using it for automation, operation and migrations. The code is also being used for side projects such VMware Hands on Labs or for other […]

Scale Testing with the Terraform count, for_each and dynamic arguments

I recently came across a requirement to make some scale tests on my VMware environment. I had to validate whether a limit was a hard limit (literally, the system prevents you from going above) or a soft limit (you can go above but it’s not recommended and you’re no longer supported). Given that the limit […]

Mini-Post: Importing API call to Postman

While I was troubleshooting API calls this week with some of our API developers, I came across a nice little trick I hadn’t used before. I talked in my previous post how you can use the Google Network Debugger to capture the API calls done when you’re interacting with a browser. What you can even […]