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AutoLab vSphere 6.7 Deployment on Ravello

AutoLab vSphere 6.7 Deployment on Ravello

A few months back, AutoLab announced the release of version 3.0 which added support for vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 as well as Windows Server 2016. LabGuides.com provides a great vSphere Deployment Guide for multiple platforms (Workstation, Fusion, Player, ESXi, Ravello). In this post, I wanted to focus solely on a vSphere 6.7 lab deployment utilizing Ravello as the underlying platform. Background – If you are unfamiliar with AutoLab, it is a deployment kit which automates the build of a nested…

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How to Install Nested ESXi 6.7 on Ravello

How to Install Nested ESXi 6.7 on Ravello

Late last year, I posted a tutorial on how to install ESXi 6.5 on Ravello. With the recent release of VMware ESXi 6.7, I wanted to walk through an updated ESXi 6.7 install. The process is fundamentally the same; however, there are a few changes needed for 6.7 to run properly on Ravello. These changes come complimentary of Ian Sanderson (@ian0x0r), David Owen (@vMackem), and Raff Poltornieri (@RaffaPol). And thank goodness for them! Until I found Ian Sanderson’s post, I…

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Oracle Ravello Second Blogger Day

Oracle Ravello Second Blogger Day

Recently, I had the opportunity to attend Oracle Ravello’s second blogger day, aptly coined #RBD2. RBD2 consisted of a group of 29 vExperts/bloggers from around the globe. I had previously been introduced to Ravello through the vExpert program, so I had a working knowledge of the offering going into the day. A few months back, I posted about my experience installing ESXi on Ravello. Since then, I have tested various VMware workloads with exceptional results. What is Oracle Ravello? If…

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Install Nested ESXi 6.5 on Ravello

Install Nested ESXi 6.5 on Ravello

Recently, I had the opportunity to test a nested lab deployment on Oracle’s Ravello Cloud Service. If you are unfamiliar with Oracle’s Ravello offering, it enables you to deploy your VMware or KVM workloads on Oracle Public Cloud, AWS, or Google Cloud. Ravello seamlessly runs your environment on top of their own nested hypervisor, HVX. HVX, in turn, is run on resources provisioned by Oracle, AWS, or Google Cloud. Utilizing Ravello’s HVX hypervisor allows the underlying cloud infrastructure to behave like your traditional datacenter; thus, enabling…

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