Vmware Certified Master Specialist – Cloud Native – Certification Guide

As promised I will try to share my experience with the Vmware Certified Master Specialist – 5V0-71.19. This is the first VMware exam that I do that don’t have an associated curriculum, and as this is also a new exam so I didn’t find any guide on how to get prepared. My hope is this helps somebody getting prepared for the exam.

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I installed Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) this weekend!

Good morning/afternoon/evening, these days have been hectic, for good or for bad during this pandemic situation, there’s a lot of work! Days full of Zoom calls are good to continue having that contact with our customers, but bad for blogging. 🙂

Nevertheless, I couldn’t wait to share my experience installing in my home lab Vmware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, that is GA since last Thursday 4/9/2020. I have to admit that I did my first tries installing it manually without using Cluster API / Cluster API Provider vSphere (CAPI/CAPV), and I was unsuccessful; but using now the TKG CLI it’s a breeze.

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Deploy VCSA 6.7 nested in VMware Workstation

This is the first post of the series of guides on how to setup a vSphere nested lab in your computer.

One of the key parts, of the nested environment is the vCenter. I could install it on top of a nested ESXi host using the normal procedures, but this brings me to a chicken and egg situation, because what is a benefit for a datacenter running 24×7, having all the availability options applied to my vCenter, is not a good idea for my laptop based nested lab, because I will be turning off all the environment very often. That’s why for this kind of labs, having the vCenter (VCSA) running directly on top of my VMware Workstation is a good idea, but then you need do do some tricks to have it running correctly; you cannot use the regular installer.

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