In this blog post, I am sharing a video which explains the basics of VMware HCX.
This is not a deep dive, technical video, It just gives high level understanding what is HCX and how it works.
In this blog, we will discuss about sddc manager and what are the command line options we have what we can do in command line. Sddc manager is the core component in VCF environment. It is responsible for doing many different tasks related to your VCF inventory configuration, life cycle management, security etc. Commission/decommission the hosts Deploying new workload domains Expanding the clusters or adding new clusters to workload domain Configure network pools for host networks (Management, Storage(VSAN/NFS etc) Deploying vRealize suite of products Certificate and password management Life cycle Management NSX-T Edge/AVNs deployment Usually all these tasks can be carried out from GUI, VCF admins rarely login sddc manager mostly when the VMware GSS is involved. SDDC Manager command line provides different use cases for example: monitoring the logs looking up for passwords collecting logs do command line health checks etc How to access sddc manager CLI? There are two us...