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VMware tools on ESXi Raspberry Pi 4

Introduction In this post, I showed how to go about installing ESXi onto a Raspberry Pi 4 device. As I was launching multiple Ubuntu virtual servers, I found issues with installing VMWare tools onto them.

ESXi on Raspberry Pi 4

Introduction On October 7th, VMware released a fling (*) that allows us to run ESXi on a Raspberry Pi. This immediately caught my attention as I had been waiting for this for quite a while.

Create VM on vSphere and network on Cisco ACI (using Terraform)

Introduction In past couple of posts, we have been experimenting with Terraform in combination with ACI and vSphere seperately. In this post, we will combine both and we will first create network constructs on Cisco’s ACI solution and once done, we will create two VM instances on vSphere that are actually using the underlying ACI network constructs.

Create Cisco ACI network with Terraform

Introduction In this post, we created some EC2 instances on AWS. In the current post, we will apply the same principle but instead of creating some servers on AWS, we will create a network on Cisco’s ACI solution using Terraform’s ACI provider.