Tag: Kubernetes
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VKS Networking: NSX, VPCs and the CNI Options (VKS Series, Part 6)
Antrea by default, NSX VPCs or VDS on 9.1, and CIDRs that must not collide. Here is the VKS networking design that keeps clusters reachable instead of stuck.
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Enabling vSphere Supervisor and the VKS Runtime in VCF 9 (VKS Series, Part 3)
Two gates stand between a workload domain and a running VKS cluster: a healthy Supervisor and a content library. Here are the prerequisites, and the blockers that actually bite.
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VKS Architecture: Supervisor, Namespaces and Workload Clusters (VKS Series, Part 2)
The Supervisor, vSphere Namespaces and workload clusters look alike and behave nothing alike. Here is how the three layers fit together, and where tenancy actually lives.
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What vSphere Kubernetes Service Is and Why It Replaced TKG (VKS Series, Part 1)
VKS is Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service renamed, not a new product. Here is what actually changed under the rename, where VKS sits in VCF 9, and who it is really for.
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Networking for VMware Private AI Workloads: Segmentation, Ingress and the East-West Path (Private AI Series, Part 26)
Model serving lives or dies on the network nobody designed. Here is how to segment AI namespaces with NSX, expose inference endpoints through the Gateway API and the load balancer, and keep RAG east-west traffic fast and private.
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NVIDIA NIM Operator on VMware Private AI: The Reference Architecture for Declarative Model Serving (Private AI Series, Part 25)
The NIM Operator is the Kubernetes-native control plane for model serving on VMware Private AI. Here is how its CRDs, caching and autoscaling actually fit together, and the vGPU constraint that bites multi-GPU models.
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vSphere Supervisor and VKS Architecture in VCF 9: The Reference Design (VCF 9 Series, Part 24)
How vSphere Supervisor and VKS fit together in VCF 9, from the control plane and vSphere Zones to networking, storage, and the design defaults you should override before you commit.
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5 Things That Block vSphere Supervisor Enablement in VCF 9 (and How to Fix Each)
Workload Management says your cluster is ‘incompatible,’ or the Supervisor control plane VMs hang at Configuring. Here are the five most common reasons vSphere Supervisor enablement fails in VCF 9 — and the exact checks and commands to fix each.
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Why Your VKS Cluster Upgrade Is Stuck: 5 Failure Modes in VCF 9 (and How to Unblock Them)
A VKS cluster upgrade that hangs halfway is almost never a Kubernetes bug. Here are the 5 things that stall VKS/Tanzu cluster upgrades in VCF 9 — version compatibility, PodDisruptionBudgets, stuck worker nodes, etcd health, and Pinniped pods — and how to unblock each one.
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5 Things That Break VKS Clusters in VCF 9 (and How to Fix Them)
Most vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) failures in VCF 9 aren’t Kubernetes bugs—they’re infrastructure. Here are the 5 things that break VKS clusters most often and how to diagnose each one fast.
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Learning Modules on Kubernetes for Beginners
Good Day All! Hope you are enjoying your weekend. In last couple of days, I was exploring Kubernetes in my Lab environment. I explored many new things as a beginner. I tried to gather all W-H questions which may ask or come into your mind if you are thinking to start Kubernetes. Based on that,…
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How to Install Kubernetes on Windows 10 with Hyper-v using Minikube| Learn Kubernetes – Part 6
We are all set with the theoretical concepts of Kubernetes. Now we are going to take you through setting up Minikube on your Windows 10 Pro machine with Hyper-V. This will setup up a basic platform for Kubernetes called Minikube. This is one of the Installation Model we discussed in last article of “Getting Start…
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Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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