I wrote about enabling vSphere with Tanzu here. Much hasn’t changed about the pre-reqs and the procedure when it comes to the latest version of vSphere 7.0 U3, except for a few cosmetic changes. I haven’t tested it on vSphere 8 yet. If there are changes, I would love to blog about it too 🙂 … Read more
Since we have completed all the pre-requisites required to back up a vSphere pod using Velero in the previous three blogs, we will look into the procedure of backing up and restoring the pod in this blog. Step 1: I have created a namespace called “vsphere-pods” and deployed a nginx pod into it. Step 2: … Read more
So far in this series of blogs, we have installed MinIO on a Ubuntu server, installed the Data Manager and the Velero vSphere Operator on the Supervisor cluster. We will continue in our journey to backup and restore a vSphere pod. The next step would be to install the vSphere plugin for Velero. Step 1: … Read more
As a follow up to my previous blog about setting up MinIO for Velero vSphere Operator, I would like to describe the process of installing the Velero vSphere Operator in this blog. You can refer to the official documentation here. Since we have already installed MinIO, we will now deploy the Data Manager using OVA. … Read more
It has been a while since I wrote something in the space. This one has been long overdue. Almost all enterprises are slowly migrating their workloads to cloud native spaces, either on-prem or on the cloud. There are many external factors that aids the decision making process of whether the cloud-native applications are going to … Read more
