New vVol Replication PowerShell Cmdlets

Happy New Year everyone! Let’s work to make 2021 a better year. In furtherance of that goal, I have put out a few new vVol-related PowerShell cmdlets! So baby steps I guess. The following are the new cmdlets: Basics: Get-PfaVvolStorageArray Replication: Get-PfaVvolReplicationGroup Get-PfaVvolReplicationGroupPartner Get-PfaVvolFaultDomain Storage Policy Management: Build-PfaVvolStoragePolicyConfig Edit-PfaVvolStoragePolicy Get-PfaVvolStoragePolicy New-PfaVvolStoragePolicy Set-PfaVvolVmStoragePolicy Now to walk …

Cloud Native Storage Part 1: Storage Policy Configuration

Previous series on Tanzu setup: Tanzu Kubernetes 1.2 Part 1: Deploying a Tanzu Kubernetes Management Cluster Tanzu Kubernetes 1.2 Part 2: Deploying a Tanzu Kubernetes Guest Cluster Tanzu Kubernetes 1.2 Part 3: Authenticating Tanzu Kubernetes Guest Clusters with Kubectl The next step here is storage. I want to configure an ability to provision persistent storage …

Preparing for a vVol VMware Cloud Foundation Workload Domain with PowerShell

The recent release of VMware Cloud Foundation (version 4.1) added support for Virtual Volumes as a principle storage option via either iSCSI or Fibre Channel. See some more information on that here: vVols, please report to the Principal’s Office! VCF 4.1 and vVols! When you deploy a new workload domain in VCF, a new vCenter …

Automating FlashStack with SmartConfig and VMware Cloud Foundation

Note: This is another guest blog by Kyle Grossmiller. Kyle is a Sr. Solutions Architect at Pure and works with Cody on all things VMware. One of the (many) fun things we get to work on at Pure is researching and figuring out new ways to streamline things that are traditionally repetitive and time-consuming (read:  boring).  Recently, …