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Spinning up a Kubernetes HA configuration is made easy with two open source utilities, K3sup and Kube-VIP. Using both of these utilities, we can easily stand up multiple control nodes using a virtual IP address and use the VIP to join the additional nodes to our Kubernetes cluster. For the K3s control nodes, I have spun up (3) Ubuntu Server virtual machines running in VMware vSphere. Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction - 0:00 Introduction to K3sup - 0:42 Introduction to Kube-VIP - 1:22 Overview of the installation process for K3sup - 1:57 Getting started curling the K3sup executable and installing - 2:20 Generating your public key pair - 2:47 Discussing the ssh-keygen command - 3:09 Copying the public key to your K3s nodes - 3:22 Running t he ssh-copy-id command - 3:40 Reviewing steps so far - 4:02 Creating the Kubernetes cluster using K3sup - 4:29 Running the K3sup command to create the first node in the cluster - 5:57 Looking at kubectl get nodes command - 6:17 Getting started with Kube-VIP - 6:40 Discussing the RBAC manifest - 7:02 Running the RBAC manifest - 7:36 Pulling the latest Kube-VIP image - 7:47 Creating an alias for the kube-vip command - 8:06 Creating the daemonset for Kube-vip - 8:36 Starting to ping the virtual IP address for Kube-VIP - 9:20 Looking at the daemonsets using kubectl - 9:30 Discussing joining the remaining nodes - 10:09 Running the k3sup join command - 10:30 Discussing the parameters of the k3sup join command - 10:43 Running the k3sup join command - 11:11 Joining the final node - 11:35 Editing our kubeconfig file to point to the virtual IP address - 11:55 Discussing the test of HA for Kubernetes - 12:39 Pinging the virtual IP and disconnecting the network adapter from the control plane node that owns VIP - 13:10 Pings start returning once again - 13:38 Concluding thoughts on Kubernetes HA - 13:49 Read my blog post covering the details of Kube-VIP here: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/11/kube-vip-configuration-for-k3s-control-plane-ha/ Read about automated K3s clusters using K3sup here: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/11/k3sup-automated-k3s-kubernetes-cluster-install/ Traefik ingress example with K3s: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/05/traefik-ingress-example-yaml-and-setup-in-k3s/
Easy K3s Kubernetes in minutes - K3sup and Kube-VIP
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One of my year-end projects for the home lab server rack has been cleaning up some cabling, introducing a patch panel, and rerouting some cabling. This video shows the time lapsed footage of this process and the end results of the project for now. I hope you guys enjoy! Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction to new cable management project for the home lab - 0:00 No patch panel or other cable management - 0:28 Phased approach to cleaning up the server rack - 0:30 Repositioning network equipment - 0:58 Introducing the time lapse video 1, repositioning network equipment - 1:47 Removing another Panduit unit and dropping down some of the network equipment - 2:40 Lowering the 10 gig switch and moving other equipment up - 3:25 Going over next steps in phase two of cleaning up the server rack - 3:57 Looking at the new patch panel with built-in keystones - 4:45 No punchdowns requireed - 5:25 10 gig rating on the patch panel - 5:30 Looking at the Panduit cable management for Twinax - 6:30 Discussing the plan for Twinax cable management - 7:40 Talking about the plan with the patch panel - 8:00 Looking at tension bar on the back of the patch panel - 8:12 Installing the new patch panel in the server rack - 9:12 Installing in the slim run patch cables - 9:27 Working on the side of the rack bundling up the cable on the side - 10:00 Looking at the end result - 10:35 Concluding thoughts on the cable management project for the home lab server rack - 11:59 Take a look at my list of home lab gear: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/home-lab/ Supermicro VMware home gear: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2020/06/supermicro-vmware-home-lab/
New Home Server Rack Cable Management - New Patch panel and cabling!
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ESXi contains powerful built-in commandline commands allowing admins to perform troubleshooting, configuration, management, and other tasks without the GUI. We look at the top 10 ESXi CLI commands you need to know and how they are used. Special thanks to Vembu for sponsoring this video! Download Vembu here: https://www.vembu.com/vembu-bdr-suite-download/?utm_source=virtualizationhowto.com&utm_medium=bloggerbanner&utm_campaign=download Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction - 0:00 Video Sponsor - BDRSuite by Vembu - 0:49 Overview of the esxcli command and subcommands - 1:38 Looking at all the esxcli options - 1:52 Discover IP addresses - esxcli network ip interface ipv4 get - 2:10 More network details using - esxcli network ip interface list - 3:10 Netstat for ESXI! - esxcli network ip connection list - 4:23 Special ping for ESXi - vmkping command - 5:05 Running the vmkping command - 5:37 Verifying jumbo frame connectivity with vmkping - 6:21 Introduction to esxtop - 6:53 Highlighting one use case for esxtop - 7:20 Launching esxtop - 7:56 Esxtop network view and viewing which vmnic a VM is communicating on - 8:05 Restarting management services - 8:51 Services.sh restart command - 9:15 Discussing the behavior when restarting management services - 9:35 Launching the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) from the command line - 10:13 Setting maintenance mode from the commandline - esxcli system maintenanceMode set --enable true - 11:01 Verifying maintenance mode from the commandline - 11:31 Updating your ESXi server from the commandline - 11:45 Unmapping thin provisioned blocks from the commandline - esxcli storage vmfs unmap -u - 12:32 Wrapping up the top ESXi CLI commands - 13:40 Upgrade to ESXi 8 in three ways: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/esxi-8-0-upgrade-in-three-ways/ Change ESXi hostname from command line: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/08/esxi-change-hostname-with-gui-and-command-line/
Top 10 VMware vSphere CLI commands you need to know!
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If you are looking for the ultimate Kubernetes GUI tool to work with Kubernetes, Openlens may be the solution you are looking for. It provides a beautiful GUI for interacting with multiple Kubernetes clusters and allows easily working with your cluster configurations, management, monitoring, etc. Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction to GUI Kubernetes tools - 0:00 Introduction to Lens where it came from - 0:46 Commercial release of Lens - 1:10 A free and open source version of Lens - 1:35 Talking about the origins of Lens - Openlens - 1:52 There are no official binaries made available - 2:15 Availability by community member to download binaries for Openlens - 2:38 Looking at the available binaries - 3:05 Looking at installing Openlens - 3:54 Launching Openlens and viewing the opening dashboard - 4:12 Automatic browsing for Kube config files - 4:37 Looking at the first dashboard and metrics from a cluster - 5:00 It displays errors and issues in the home dashboard - 5:20 How to turn on the metrics integration for Openlens - 5:30 Looking at our Kubernetes nodes in Openlens - 6:11 Looking at actions we can take on the nodes - 6:20 Looking at workloads and information - 6:40 Pod information and searching for specific pods - 6:58 Navigating from side or top menu - 7:18 Quickly retrieve network information for your Kubernetes cluster and pods - 7:25 Namespaces, types, network IP information, loadbalancer config, Cluster IPs, ports, etc - 7:40 Storage information for persistent volume claims, persistent volumes, storage classes - 8:14 Helm menu in the Openlens interface - 8:28 Access controls, roles, custom resources - 8:45 Looking at the Openlens Hotbar - 8:55 Flipping back and forth between clusters - 9:28 Run command prompts connected to multiple Kubernetes clusters - 9:38 Final thoughts and thinking about the features of Openlens - 10:26 My write up on Openlens IDE and how you can download it: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/11/openlens-kubernetes-ide-opensource-lens-desktop/ Take a look at the Lens IDE where you can download the Personal license for free: https://k8slens.dev/
Ultimate Kubernetes Dashboard tool for beginners! Openlens GUI
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Many want to start getting into running Docker containers in their home lab environments. However, some struggle to understand what use cases, services, and solutions are good to run as containers. We take a look at the Best Docker Containers for Home Server environments, looking at my top 5 Docker containers I run in the home lab. Hopefully, this list will help inspire you guys to share what containers you are running and maybe try out some of the containerized services I am using. Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction to the Best Docker Containers to run on a home server - 0:00 Number 1 - Introduction to Rancher and using it to manage Kubernetes - 0:33 Looking at cluster management in Rancher - 1:12 Node templates with Rancher - 1:44 Looking at the Apps catalog and helm charts - 1:57 Why Rancher is my top pick - 2:24 Number 2 - Introduction to Portainer - 2:42 Talking about Portainer and its graphical interface - 3:05 Talking about the Portainer dashboard - 3:19 Looking around the containers dashboard and capabilities - 3:41 Integration with Docker Compose - 4:10 Built-in registry for apps contained in Portainer - 4:43 Number 3 - Introduction to Gitlab - 5:17 Talking about DevOps and Platform engineering - 5:47 Use cases for Gitlab - Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines - 6:02 Checking in code in the home lab and triggering processes - 6:20 Looking at the Docker container for Gitlab - 6:36 Creating new Gitlab projects - 6:46 Talking about CI/CD pipelines with Packer to automate build processes - 7:20 Number 4 - Introduction to Hashicorp Vault - 8:23 Thinking about how you deal with passwords and secrets in Infrastructure as Code - 8:44 What Hashicorp Vault does - 9:02 How I use Hashicorp Vault - 9:20 Talking about installing Hashicorp Vault from the Rancher helm chart - 9:40 Looking at the Vault pods in Kubernetes - 10:05 Logging into Vault - 10:22 Different types of secrets engines and what you can do with them - 10:30 Creating new entries in Vault - 11:14 Number 5 - Introduction to Dashy - 11:55 The use case for a home lab dashboard - 12:11 How I use Dashy for my home lab dashboard - 12:25 Looking at my home lab dashboard - 12:36 Creating new sections and entries to your Dashy dashboard - 13:25 Wrapping up my thoughts on the top 5 Docker Containers for Home Server and home lab - 13:38 How to install Portainer on Ubuntu 22.04 and upgrade existing installations: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/04/how-to-install-portainer-on-ubuntu-22-04-and-upgrade-existing-installations/ My detailed blog post on how to install Hashicorp Vault in Kubernetes: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/11/install-hashicorp-vault-in-kubernetes/ How to create Kubernetes clusters with Rancher and VMware vSphere: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/01/create-kubernetes-cluster-with-rancher-and-vmware-vsphere/ Home lab dashboard with Dashy: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/09/home-lab-dashboard-with-dashy/
Best Docker Containers for Home Server!
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For those that are running VMware ESXi in their home lab or production environments, there are many configurations that you will likely want to make on your ESXi host. Many of the configuration changes that need to be made will help to prepare your host for high availability, proper time synchronization, network configuration, storage, licensing, and adding your ESXi hosts to vCenter Server. In this video, I cover the first things I do on a VMware ESXi installation. Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction to configuration changes to VMware ESXi - 0:00 Configuring the management interface - 0:48 Describing the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) - 1:12 Configuring the management network - 1:33 Network adapter configuration - 1:45 Adding an additional network adapter for the management interface - 2:00 Configuring a specific VLAN for management traffic - 2:32 Setting a static IP address - 3:39 DNS configuration and DNS servers - 3:52 Setting the hostname - 4:00 DNS suffixes for DNS search suffixes - 4:13 Applying the changes and restarting the management network - 4:35 Logging into the ESXi host client - 4:55 Enabling SSH on your ESXi host - 5:12 Testing SSH connectivity to the ESXi host - 5:24 Patching the VMware ESXi host - 5:35 Software profiles and how they are used - 5:58 Getting the software profile - 6:06 Using the esxcli software profile update to update the ESXi server - 7:01 Setting the NTP server configuration in VMware ESXi - 7:35 Starting the NTP service - 8:38 Pointing your ESXi host to a syslog server - 9:03 Restarting the syslog service - 9:46 Adding the software iSCSI adapter - 9:54 Configuring iSCSI software adapter - 10:33 Adding a standalone ESXi host to a vCenter Server - 11:20 Beginning the add host wizard in vSphere Client to add to vCenter Server - 12:05 Behavior of the host after first adding to vCenter Server - 13:05 Adding VMkernel adapters in vSphere on your ESXi hosts - 13:29 Beginning the process to add VMkernel adapters and IP addresses - 14:00 Configuring the port properites - 14:25 Licensing the ESXi host - 15:22 Adding the license in the host client - 15:48 Adding a license in vCenter Server - 16:20 Concluding thoughts on ESXi settings I add on my VMware ESXi hosts - 17:32 VMware ESXi 8.0 Host client 2: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/vmware-esxi-8-0-new-host-client-2-and-logo/ Upgrade to ESXi 8.0 in three ways: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/esxi-8-0-upgrade-in-three-ways/ VMware vSphere 8 download links: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/vmware-vsphere-8-download-links-for-esxi-8-and-vcenter-server-8/
Before I do anything with VMware ESXi I do this first
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Using automation provides a powerful way to ensure your virtual machines, containers, and hosts are configured and managed across the environment consistently, seamlessly, and securely. We take a look at using home lab automation tools to keep VMs and home lab infrastructure updated, configured, and using it to deploy new templates and virtual machines. Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction to home lab automation tools I use - 0:00 Hashicorp Packer - what it is and what it does - 1:05 Looking at Packer and a demo of running the command - 1:46 Talking about Packer and how it fully automates operating system installation - 2:20 Introduction to Terraform, what it does, and how you use it - 2:54 Looking at executing Terraform, state files, and configuration - 3:53 Introduction to PowerShell, background, and what it does - 5:08 Introduction to PowerCLI module for PowerShell and how PowerShell is extensible - 5:44 Looking at installing the PowerCLI module - 6:14 Using PowerShell and PowerCLI with Visual Studio Code - 7:04 Introduction to Ansible and configuration management with Playbooks - 7:37 Looking at an inventory file, the Ansible ping command - 8:46 Running an Ansible Playbook to update Linux VMs - 8:56 Wrapping up and thoughts on automation tools in the home lab - 9:20 Building an Ubuntu 22.04 template with Packer: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/04/packer-build-ubuntu-22-04-for-vmware-vsphere/ Automated Windows Server 2022 Packer Build: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2021/06/automated-windows-server-2022-packer-build/ Terraform vSphere tutorial - Linux Virtual Machine Clone: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2021/05/terraform-vsphere-tutorial-linux-virtual-machine-clone/ Ansible provisioning VMware VMs: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2021/01/ansible-provisioning-vmware-with-vmware_guest-example/
Best Home Lab Automation Tools! Packer, Terraform, PowerShell, and Ansible
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VMware has a killer new storage solution that is found in the latest vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 release. The new storage architecture found in vSAN 8 known as the Express Storage Architecture is a great new storage solution that is even simpler for home lab use and can be enabled with a single drive in each cluster host. We take a look at the new architecture and then look at configuring the new vSAN ESA. Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction - 0:00 Where storage technology has come over the years - 1:05 Looking at where storage has come in 2022 - 1:45 Elimination of the two-tier storage approach - 2:23 Storage Pool and all devices configured in vSAN storage are capacity and performance - 2:48 Log Structured File system with efficiency improvements - 3:21 Encryption and compression are repositioned and more efficient with vSAN 8 - 3:38 Beginning configuration of the Express Storage Architecture - 4:03 Launching the configure vSAN storage wizard - 4:29 New default is the Express Storage Architecture ESA - 4:41 Services configuration - 4:57 Claiming disks for vSAN ESA - 5:08 I don't have certified drives but we can still install - 5:23 Enabling Express Storage Architecture with a single disk from each host - 6:00 Creating fault domains - 6:40 Reviewing the configuration - 6:55 vCenter Server tasks kick off in vSphere Client - 7:13 Disks are added to hosts in the vSAN Cluster - 7:34 Looking at disk management - 8:00 Discussing viability of ESA for home labs - 8:33 Concluding thoughts with vSAN Express Storage Architecture and home lab thoughts - 8:53 Configure vSAN Express Storage Architecture ESA: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/configure-vsan-8-express-storage-architecture-esa/ Upgrade to ESXi 8 in three ways: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/esxi-8-0-upgrade-in-three-ways/ VMware vSphere 8 Download links: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/vmware-vsphere-8-download-links-for-esxi-8-and-vcenter-server-8/
VMware's Killer new storage in 2022! Single drive vSAN Express Storage Architecture home lab
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In this video we take a look at using VMware Workstation for your home lab environment to run vCenter Server 8. How can you install VMware vCenter Server 8 in VMware Workstation? We take a look at the process and a quirk to get this to work with vCenter Server 8. Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction - 0:00 Going over the typical vCenter Server installation method - 1:05 Relies on vCenter Server or ESXi host - 1:36 Deploy the VCSA appliance from the ISO file - 2:00 Looking at the OVA appliance - 2:14 Describing an error I received deploying the vCenter Server appliance - 2:52 Describing a change needed to successfully deploy a modified OVF template - 3:00 Using the OVFtool to create an OVF tool to deploy vCenter Server - 3:42 Converting the OVA to OVF process - 4:14 The OVF file is successfully created - 4:40 Navigating to the directory where we created the OVF - 4:52 Editing the OVF file - 5:15 Searching for the change we need to make - 5:30 Opening the modified OVF appliance file - 6:35 The wizard kicks off for phase 1 in the deployment of the VCSA appliance - 6:52 EULA - 7:19 Name the VM and storage location - 7:25 VCSA sizing - 7:30 Networking configuration - 7:36 SSO configuration - 8:07 System configuration - 8:17 Domain search path - 8:22 Completing the phase 1 and import begins - 8:36 VCSA booted and navigating manually to the VAMI interface - 9:10 Familiar vCenter Server installer interface from the VAMI interface - 9:33 Clicking Setup box - 9:50 Verifying the network properties - 10:05 Changing time synchronization and SSH access property - 10:15 SSO configuration - 10:25 CEIP options - 11:09 Summary screen - 11:19 Warning about disrupting the process - 11:29 Phase 2 begins - 11:50 VCSA appliance successfully deploys - 11:58 Wrapping up talking about VMware Workstation for home lab - 12:10 Upgrade to ESXi 8.0 in three ways: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/esxi-8-0-upgrade-in-three-ways/ VMware vSphere 8 download links: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/vmware-vsphere-8-download-links-for-esxi-8-and-vcenter-server-8/ William Lam's blog post covering the error for vCenter Server 8 and VMware Workstation: https://williamlam.com/2022/10/how-to-deploy-the-vcenter-server-appliance-vcsa-8-0-to-vmware-fusion-or-workstation.html
Install vCenter Server 8 in VMware Workstation! Step-by-step process and error workaround
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One of the great new features of ESXi 8.0 is the new Host Client 2 interface. VMware has revamped the local host client UI included with ESXi 8.0 to include a brand new host client 2 release that has a fresh look and feel to match the vSphere Client included with vCenter Server. It will allow home lab enthusiasts to have basically the same experience as they would running vCenter Server in their environment with ESXi 8.0. We take a look at many of the new features included with the new host client. Introduction - 0:00 Initial details of new Host Client 2 - 0:30 Navigating out to the new Host Client 2 in ESXi 8.0 - 1:23 Discussing the new Host Client version - 2:10 Creating a new virtual machine workflow and discussing changes - 2:31 Clarity framework - 2:50 New typography, fonts, spacing, and other styling enhancements - 3:11 Hardware version 20 - 3:26 Introducing customizing the UI interface - 3:40 The default is a new Gray toned theme - 4:07 New icon for ESXi 8.0 - 4:27 Swapping to the new Dark theme - 4:30 Customizing a particular theme - 5:05 Changing colors using the new customize feature - 5:21 Included reset button to revert to the defaults - 5:42 New datastore browser enhancements and ability to expand columns - 5:56 Introducing the new login banner - 6:36 Discussing the new file to implement the welcome functionality - 7:00 Markdown features of the new banner functionality - 7:12 Testing the new login banner - 7:33 Wrapping up covering the new ESXi 8.0 host client - 7:55 Blog post covering the new features of the Host Client 2 release in ESXi 8.0: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/vmware-esxi-8-0-new-host-client-2-and-logo/ Learn how to upgrade to ESXi 8.0 in three ways: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/esxi-8-0-upgrade-in-three-ways/ Download links for vSphere 8: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/vmware-vsphere-8-download-links-for-esxi-8-and-vcenter-server-8/
New ESXi 8.0 Host Client 2 Interface! Looks just like vCenter Server!
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Now that vSphere 8 has been released, many are upgrading existing home lab environments to ESXi 8.0. In this video, I describe three ways to upgrade your ESXi host to ESXi 8.0. These include from the ISO media, command line, and using vSphere Lifecycle Manager. Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction to upgrading ESXi 8.0 - 0:00 introduction to booting from the ISO media to perform the ESXi 8.0 upgrade - 0:37 Rebooting to UEFI setup screen - 1:10 Same process as previous versions - 1:22 Finished booting into the installation/upgrade - 1:47 Local storage - 2:03 Existing installation is detected and prompted to upgrade - 2:12 Proceeding with the ugprade of the existing ESXi installation - 2:32 Upgrade of existing installation completes successfully prompt to restart - 2:48 Introduction to upgrading from the command line - 3:06 Pasting in the upgrade commands - 3:21 Describing the esxcli software profile update command to ESXi 8.0 - 3:44 Describing the behavior of the command line upgrade - 4:08 Upgrade completed successfully and reboot is required - 4:20 Using vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade ESXi hosts to ESXi 8.0 - 4:48 Describing the lab environment - 5:00 Creating the cluster-level image - 5:28 Selecting the ESXi 8.0 GA release - 5:40 Describing the add-ons - 5:45 Saving the image and add-ons - 6:05 Image check completed and image compliance detects the out-of-compliance host - 6:13 Selecting the remediate options - 6:48 Review remediation impact and EULA - 7:07 Starting the remediation using the vSphere Lifecycle Manager - 7:23 After the remediation process has completed - 7:47 Checking the ESXi host console and it has successfully upgraded to ESXi 8.0 - 8:00 Wrapping up and reviewing the 3 ways to upgrade to ESXi 8.0 - 8:10 Check out my blog post detailing the steps here: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/esxi-8-0-upgrade-in-three-ways/ Want to know the direct download links to vSphere 8? https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/vmware-vsphere-8-download-links-for-esxi-8-and-vcenter-server-8/ New features of vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/08/vmware-vsphere-8-vsan-8-and-vmware-cloud-foundation-released-new-features/
ESXi 8.0 Upgrade in three ways - ISO, command line, and vSphere Lifecycle Manager
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In this episode, we take a look at installing VMware vSphere 8 and the steps involved to deploy the VCSA 8 appliance in your existing vSphere environment. The VCSA 8 appliance is deployed using the vCenter Server Installer utility. It deploys the virtual machine for vCenter Server 8 and allows implementing the configuration to stand up the SSO domain and other configuration. Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction to installing vSphere 8 - 0:00 Discussing downloading the ISO image for VMware vCenter Server 8 - 0:42 Launching the vCenter Server Installer utility - 1:19 Going through and launching the installer - 1:27 Deployment target - 1:54 Selecting the folder to install in inventory - 2:25 Select the compute resource - 2:32 Naming the VM in vSphere inventory - 2:48 Select the deployment size - 3:00 Select the datastore to house the VCSA appliance - 3:27 Select and configure networking for your VCSA appliance - 3:33 Completing the configuration of Stage 1 for installing vCenter Server 8 - 4:37 Phase 1 has completed and continuing Phase 2 - 5:06 Synchronizing with time servers and selecting SSH options - 5:29 Configuring the SSO domain and setting the credentials - 5:38 Configure CEIP settings - 5:47 Ready to complete Phase 2 configuration - 5:52 After the Stage 2 installation completed successfully - 6:19 Logging into the vSphere Client for vSphere 8 - 6:40 Looking at the build and version for vCenter Server 8 - 7:05 Discussing IA release vs GA - 7:19 Wrapping up and concluding thoughts 7:32 Read my post to get the download links for vSphere 8, including vCenter Server 8 and ESXi 8: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/vmware-vsphere-8-download-links-for-esxi-8-and-vcenter-server-8/ Discussion of the vSAN Express Storage Architecture: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/09/vsan-8-original-storage-architecture-vs-express-storage-architecture-differences/ vSAN 8 technical deep dive: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/08/vmware-vsan-8-whats-new-technical-deep-dive/
VMware vSphere 8 - Installing vCenter Server 8 VCSA appliance
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For those wanting to run a home lab environment, there are many options available. However, a viable option these days is using the cloud to spin up a home lab. Which should you invest in, home server or cloud? This is a question many start asking when thinking about buying home lab gear that may add up to quite an investment. We talk about the pros and cons of running your lab on a home server or cloud environment and see which one might make the most sense for which use case. Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction - 0:00 Talking about using a physical server in your home - 1:07 Talking about the advantages of a physical home server - 1:24 Physical tinkering with hardware and networking - 2:02 Organizations today are taking a hybrid approach - 2:25 Downsides to running a home server - 2:36 Active cooling for home lab environment - 3:00 Equipment failures, lifecycle management - 3:20 Capital Investment vs Operational Expense - lure of SaaS - 3:45 Looking at home lab resources online such as LabGopher - 4:23 What are your objectives? You must consider what you want to accomplish - 5:20 Reaching a threshold of a certain number of resources - 6:07 Introduction to running a home lab environment in the cloud - 6:25 Talking about free tier offerings in the public cloud - 6:55 Highlighting the Amazon AWS Free Tier offering - 7:12 Thinking about run time and how it will add up with many resources - 9:35 A third option? What about a hybrid approach? 10:25 Concluding thoughts on home server vs cloud - 11:46 Check out my home lab here: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/home-lab/ Supermicro specific post: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2020/06/supermicro-vmware-home-lab/ VMware NSX home lab configuration: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2020/06/vmware-nsx-home-lab-setup/
Home Server or Cloud? Build, buy, or host?
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VPNs have been around a long while. However, for the most part, VPNs are difficult to manage, configure, and do not perform very well. However, I want to introduce you guys to a solution that takes a modern approach to implementing remote connectivity. It allows you to manage everything from the cloud, requires no firewall rules to be created, is built upon Wireguard, you can install it in Kubernetes and you can manage it with Terraform. Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction to a modern VPN solution - 0:00 Introducing Twingate as a modern VPN solution - 0:54 Describing the Twingate network connectivity and global network - 1:23 Wireguard - 1:50 Zero-trust networking and introducing the concept - 2:07 A brief overview of the free tier and the pricing model - 3:12 Getting started creating a Twingate account - 4:30 Signing up for twingate - 4:49 Naming the Twingate network - 5:05 The network is built and configured - 5:33 Adding a remote network - 5:43 Creating an on-premises network - 6:03 The new remote network is added - 6:15 Clicking the deploy connector and choosing the platform - 6:48 Describing the process to generate the access token - 7:25 Generating the tokens - 8:05 Describing the vSphere virtual machines used for self-hosting Twingate - 8:40 SSHing into the Ubuntu Server virtual machines - 9:05 Copying the token command - 9:29 Pasting the command into the Twingate portal - 9:49 Refreshing the status of the connector and it is connected - 10:11 Overview of the dual Twingate connector architecture - 10:31 Looking at the network screen and the orange indicator - 10:47 After repeating the process with the second connector - 11:17 Adding resources and looking at the options availabe - 11:33 Talking about DNS resources and referencing resources by name - 11:53 Protocol restrictions and talking about the functionality for restricting certain traffic - 12:25 Assigning specific users to resources in the Twingate environment - 13:13 Looking at devices and trust profiles - 14:06 Setting minimum requiremsn 14:30 Looking at policies and authentication requirements - 15:05 Looking at teams and groups - 15:30 Looking at connecting the Twingate Windows app and connecting to your network - 16:04 Looking at the Twingate Terraform provider - 16:46 Wrapping up and thoughts on Twingate VPN - 17:34 Read my written review of Twingate VPN here: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/06/twingate-download-and-configuration-review-of-zero-trust-vpn/ Take a look at Twingate here: https://www.twingate.com/
Best Free VPN 2022 - Home Lab
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One of the most important aspects of building out your home lab environmment is giving attention to your home network design. Network segmentation is a core component of securing your home lab network, segmenting traffic, and protecting your network resources. In the video we talk about how to properly design your network with VLANs, using a firewall to filter traffic from specific resources Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction - 0:00 Talking about VLAN basics - 1:37 How many home lab networks are designed - 3:35 How an attacker can pivot in a un-segmented network - 4:43 Beginning the creation of VLANs - 5:36 Showing the existing VLANs on a switch - 6:01 Running the commands to create a new VLAN - 6:25 Configuring a switchport as an access port for the newly created VLAN - 7:15 Testing out connectvity between two PCs and seeing how VLANs work - 7:59 Testing connectivity with ping commands - 8:37 After adding the additonal port to the new VLAN - 9:25 Overview of a network design using multiple VLANs 9:54 Using firewall rules to filter traffic between VLANs - 11:44 Looking at firewall rules and associating those to different interfaces - 12:42 Adding a firewall rule for a particular interface and blocking traffic between VLANs - 12:59 Looking at micro-segmentation within a VLAN - 14:01 Limitations of firewall filtering - 14:27 Creating a layer 2 segment (logical switch) - 15:05 Looking at creating a distributed firewall rule - 15:31 Adding Active Directory to NSX Manager - 15:44 Thinking about the possibilities - 16:28 Covering the basics and wrapping up - 16:56 pfSense proxmox installation and configuration: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/08/pfsense-proxmox-install-process-and-configuration/ pfSense VLAN to VLAN routing: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/03/pfsense-vlan-to-vlan-routing-in-vmware-esxi/ Segment your network with pfSense: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/03/segment-your-vmware-network-with-pfsense/ Enable VMware NSX-T distributed IDS configuration: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2020/05/enable-vmware-nsx-t-3-0-distributed-ids-configuration/ Identity based firewall with VMware NSX-T: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/03/identity-based-firewall-configuration-with-nsx-t-and-vsphere/
Home Lab Network Security! - vlans, firewall, micro-segmentation
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