irgNET – LAB 5.0 U2
I wish you all a happy new year and would also like to start with a Home Lab update. Between the last and this update nothing has changed on the hardware-site, but on the software level.
Two very interesting VMware products were added:
- VMware vRealize Automation
- VMware Horizon
Together with my colleague Manuel Billmaier, we run a hyperconverged solution from Dell called VxRail at Computacenter, which runs a VMware Cloud Foundation in Consolidated Design, because of limited hardware.
VMware vRealize Automation, an infrastructure automation solution specializing in VMware, runs on top of this. There we show our customers how to build various cloud templates in order to deploy them to the respective resources on-prem (VMware vCenter) and public cloud (AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud). VMware vRealize Automation also offers the Service Broker, where cloud templates are relesead as catalog items and users can request them.
Cloud templates can grow from simple VM templates to Ansible, Infoblox, etc. integration. But applications can also be mapped here.
If you are interested in these use cases, please post it in the comments and we will show you how it works with an official workshop.
Both Manuel and I have VMware vRealize Automation in our home labs to try out things in advance that may not be possible in the Solution Center right now due to dependencies on other departments.
VMware Horizon, is much more than just a virtual desktop infrastructure solution. Especially in the Corona pandemic, VDIs have become important due to home office activities. In my home lab, I wanted to map these on a small scale, in which I display a VDI without and a VDI with GPU, play games on a more powerful VDI with GPU and can access all these resources from the world-wide-web.
But also here I will build up a demo environment with my colleague in the future at Computacenter in the Solution Center Munich and present it to you in official workshops but also on the famous VMware TechUpdate of our mentor Marc Huppert, who is mentioned several times in my blog.
I would not have been able to set up the VMware Horizon environment without Marc and Manuel, thanks to our Captain I got two NVIDIA Tesla P4 graphics cards to be able to map the above mentioned use cases.
Nothing else has changed in the graphical representation, just a few Applications images have been added and these represent the new services running on the servers:
Hardware List
Ubiquiti Networks UAP-AC-PRO: https://amzn.to/31KYa01
FRITZ!Repeater 3000: https://amzn.to/3jfI0R0
HPE 1820-24G (Follow-up product): https://amzn.to/3CB1HeO
HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 (Follow-up product): https://amzn.to/2UsaWwI
FRITZ!Box 6660 (Follow-up product): https://amzn.to/3yUYAfF
Western Digital Black 2TB: https://amzn.to/2ZuUCOb
AVM FRITZ!Powerline 1220E Set https://amzn.to/3m1A5bZ
That’s it from this update in my home lab. If you have any questions, please use the comment section. 🙂