Before you can begin deploying VMware Cloud Foundation, you first configure the VCF Installer to connect to the Broadcom Depot. In order to do this you must first obtain your unique download token from the
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Read MoreExcited to share that VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation 9.1 are now available for download, here are a number of useful links, if you have not already seen or read the news release please see
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Read MoreWith the release of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, there comes a new version of the VCF Installer. This release introduces a lot of new capabilities so lets dig into the details of what's new. For the purpose of this post I've broken these down into the following key areas.
The first step to automating the deployment of a new VMware Cloud Foundation platform is the creation and validation of your JSON specification file. This JSON specification file describes the environment to be configured.
There are a few ways in which you can build your JSON specification file, probably the easiest is …
Read MoreBefore you can begin deploying VMware Cloud Foundation, you first configure the VCF Installer to connect to the Broadcom Depot. In order to do this you must first obtain your unique download token from the
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Interacting with the public APIs of a VMware Cloud Foundation platform enables organizations to build custom end-to-end automation for their needs. The first step in the process involves obtaining an authentication token. A VMware Cloud Foundation platform consists of a number of core end …
Read More- If you have looked at VCF Automation in any detail you may be aware that you can configure one or more external identity providers (IdPs), and import users and groups to your organizations. This configuration can use an LDAP server connection which can be configured at either the system or the organization level, a …
Read More In this procedure, we will use the /v1/vcf-services API to retrieve service details for a SDDC Manager instance.
SDDC Manager APIs Used
- POST /v1/tokens
- GET /v1/vcf-services
Obtaining Service Details for all Services from SDDC Manager
Procedure
- Connect to the SDDC Manager appliance over SSH.
- Replace the values in the …
Read MoreIn this post we will use curl to view the details of a Network Pool in SDDC Manager.
SDDC Manager APIs Used
- POST /v1/tokens
- GET /v1/network-pools
View All Network Pools Configured in SDDC Manager
In this procedure we will authenticate to SDDC Manager and then using the /v1/network-pools API we will retrieve a list of …
Read More- Interacting with the Public APIs for SDDC Manager can be achieved in many ways, my normal goto is PowerCLI but that requires the installation of the required modules and of course PowerShell itself to be available on either the component your wanting to interact with or a remote management host. If your looking for a …
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