Month: March 2022

VMware homelab vRealize Suite setup

VMware vRealize Suite is a purpose-built management solution for the heterogeneous data center and the hybrid cloud. It delivers and manages infrastructure and applications to increase the business agility while maintaining IT control. It provides the most comprehensive management stack for private and public clouds, multiple hypervisors, and physical infrastructure.

It consists of the following solutions:

  • vRealize Automation (and vRealize Orchestrator)
  • vRealize Operations
  • vRealize Log Insight

To automate installation, configuration, upgrade, patch, configuration management, drift remediation and health from within a single pane of glass, we will use vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.

The below diagram shows technological capabilities and organizational constructs.

In the lab environment we’ll install all solutions as single node instances with the following sizings:

NamePurposeSizevCPUMemory (GB)Disk (GB)
vrslcm1Lifecycle Manager2678
wsa1avIDMMedium81660
vra1avRealize AutomationMedium1242236
vrops1avRealize OperationsExtra small28274
vrli1avRealize Log InsightSmall48530

After the deployment of these solutions, we’re going to initially integrate them.

VMware homelab VCD setup

With VMware VMware Cloud Director you can build secure, multi-tenant clouds by pooling virtual infrastructure resources into virtual data centers and exposing them to users through Web-based portals and programmatic interfaces as a fully automated, catalog-based service.

In the lab environment, we’ll setup a simple single cell installation, and add our workload vCenter Server vc2.lab.local and the NSX-T Manager nsx1.lab.local as infrastructure resources.

From these infrastructures we’ll create cloud resources such as a provider VDC, a Geneve network pool, and an External network.

Then we’ll create a tenant organization and assign resources from the provider VDC as an organization VDC to this particular organization. We’ll also create an Edge Gateway to allow the tenant to access the outside world from within his Cloud.

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