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Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated (TKGI) integration with vRealize Automation Cloud(vRAC)
vRAC provides different services as VMware Cloud Assembly, VMware Service Broker, VMware Code Stream. Cloud Assembly helps construct workload specifications as Blueprints, which we can make available to the businessgroups and deploy them to the cloud resources. Service Broker provide a catalog of templates and actions to VMware Service Broker consumers. Code Stream supports DevOps…
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Distributed Telco Cloud Architecture – Part 4 – Network Interfaces
The deployment topology for 5G core and RAN architecture commonly used by Communication Service Providers (CSPs) can be realized by building the data center and network infrastructure based on hierarchical layers. In this write up I’ll give a brief commentary about network interfaces required for proper communication. As we have seen in earlier blog that…
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Distributed Telco Cloud Architecture – Part 2 – Components placement
The deployment topology for 5G core and RAN architecture commonly used by Communication Service Providers (CSPs) can be realized by building the data center and network infrastructure based on hierarchical layers. In this blog I’ll give a short commentary about the placement of components at each site. Since we have hierarchical layer design this placement…
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Distributed Telco cloud Architecture – Part 1 – Server & Switch design
The deployment topology for 5G core and RAN architecture commonly used by Communication Service Providers (CSPs) can be realized by building the data center and network infrastructure based on hierarchical layers. In this blog I’ll give a brief commentary about the server and physical design. Lets us assume in our lab we have Central Site,…
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Distributed Telco Cloud Architecture – Part 3 -Stretched cluster design
In the case of the RAN environment we have to design stretched cluster for the DU workloads. From TCP RA 3.1 guide, stretched cluster is defined as belowIf you create a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster where node pools are deployed to different target endpoints (within a single vCenter), it is called a Stretched Cluster. In this…
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Nessus tool for Vulnerability scan
Nessus is a vulnerability scanner tool that is used to check security compliance of the hosts. I’ll be installing Nessus free version i.e. Nessus Essential on Ubuntu VM.I have installed Ubuntu 22.04 and assigned static IP to it. Nessus bits are available here https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus?loginAttempted=true Please download appropriate file as per the OS in you lab.…
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vRealize Operations Management Pack for Dell PowerEdge Servers
Hello, In this writeup I’ll discuss about the steps to collect metrics of Dell PowerEdge servers using vRealize Operations Management Pack. First download the management pack (PAK file) from VMware Marketplace. The management packs consist of a PAK file that contains default dashboards for the objects that the management pack identifies. Next collect the User…
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Enable SRIOV in BIOS and vmnic
Hello, Today I’ll discuss one of the prerequisite for TestNF tool & how to set it on Dell server. TestNF is a tool which provides efficient way to test & validate VMware Telco Platform.Before onboarding/instantiating TestNF, TCA environment needs to meet few of the prerequisites and one of it for Virtual Infrastructure is ESXi version…
