Note: I am still investigating this, so whilst it looks like it might be the root cause, I am not 100% just yet. I’ll update once I confirm. I run SFTPGo in a container for my VCF file based backups, the reason is I want a clear security boundary for what VCF can (and cannot) … Read more
Authentik is an Open Source Identity Provider which I currently use outside of my VCF homelab. William Lam has published a number of different posts about Authentik, one of which is how to use it as an IdP with vCenter. I figured I’d be able to use it as an Identity Source for VCF SSO … Read more
After spending a bit of time tidying up cables in my rack, I figured I’d take the opportunity to write about my current setup. Here it is in all its glory: Not the greatest picture. From top to bottom: Here’s a diagram of how it’s all connected together. Not in the diagram is a UniFi … Read more
I’m not going to run any benchmarks as there’s plenty of information out there, but what I’m going to do is deploy VCF on a single MS-A2 and time it, I’ve included times for deploying onto a single NUC Extreme, as well as a single Xeon host for comparison. To keep things as fair as … Read more
I’ve been experimenting with VCF 9 in my homelab recently and I’ve been trying out some day 2 activities. Invariably, with homelabs you end up having to rebuild some (or all) of it as you experiment, and I found myself in that position. I do intend on writing a blog covering how my lab is … Read more
My homelab currently comprises of 3x Intel NUC Extremes (11th gen, 1x i9, 2x i7) along with 2x Xeon workstation based hosts. Whilst I like the NUCs, I’ve been wanting to replace the Xeon workstations. They started off in a Dell SFF workstation, but due to heat management issues I removed the CPUs and I’ve … Read more
I previously blogged about how you can get BGP working between a UDM-SE and NSX Edge. I wanted to revisit the topic as BGP is now built into the UDM itself as of GW firmware 4.1 I believe, and there is no requirement to visit the command line except to troubleshoot and verify. I also … Read more
I recently upgraded my Domain Controller to the Server 2025. Not long after the upgrade, I noticed I could no longer sign into vSphere with AD accounts. Under Single Sign On in vCenter Server, against my domain I saw the following error message: A vCenter Single Sign-On service error occurred Under the configuration for LDAP … Read more
I see quite a bit of confusion about this internally and with customers, so I figured I would write a quick blog post on the subject. Starting with HCX 4.9, you are able to active HCX Enterprise services using VCF Solution Licensing. To save you a little bit of reading, here is the TL;DR: If … Read more
HC 4.10 has just been released and with it come a whole host of excellent new features. You can read the release notes here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-HCX/4.10/rn/vmware-hcx-410-release-notes/index.html In this post, I want to concentrate on what will be welcome to customers who operate their own private datacentres and have no use for encryption. Historically, the traffic between … Read more