Matthias Grasmück
Posts by Matthias Grasmück.
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Authenticate with the vSphere Supervisor API
Have you always wondered how to log in directly to the vSphere Supervisor API to communicate directly with the Kubernetes API without having to rely on kubectl-vsphere or vcf-cli command line tool?
2026-07-29 · posts/how-to-authenticate-with-the-vsphere-supervisor-api.md · 257 words · 1 min · matthias-grasmueck
IaaS Control Plane – wrong NSX edge cluster for T1 placement
After upgrading an IaaS Control Plane environment to vSphere 8.0.3, the T1 SR instances of the vSphere namespaces stopped landing on the edge cluster they were meant to.
2024-12-04 · posts/iaas-control-plane-wrong-nsx-edge-cluster-for-t1-placement.md · 873 words · 4 min · matthias-grasmueck
IaaS Control Plane – API inaccessible
After upgrading the Supervisor cluster of our IaaS Control Plane platform to vSphere 8.0 Update 3, kubectl access to the Kubernetes clusters stopped working.
2024-11-12 · posts/iaas-control-plane-api-inaccessible.md · 951 words · 5 min · matthias-grasmueck
Distributed Network & Security Services
Virtualised networks have been running on hypervisor platforms in data centres for more than 20 years. What has changed is what they now have to cover: automation and security together.
2024-05-07 · posts/distributed-network-security-services.md · 822 words · 4 min · matthias-grasmueck
Integrating Antrea into NSX
Registering a Kubernetes cluster running Antrea with the NSX management and central control plane, so groups, policies and trace flows are managed in one place.
2024-04-16 · posts/antrea-nsx-integration.md · 1425 words · 7 min · matthias-grasmueck
vSphere with Tanzu and NSX Advanced Load Balancer – avi-secret not found
An interesting behaviour turned up during a functional test of a vSphere with Tanzu container runtime platform combined with the VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer.
2024-02-09 · posts/vsphere-with-tanzu-und-nsx-advanced-load-balancer-avi-secret-not-found.md · 854 words · 4 min · matthias-grasmueck
vSphere with Tanzu and NSX Advanced Load Balancer with a private CA
From vSphere 8.0 Update 2 you can deploy vSphere with Tanzu using NSX as the networking stack and NSX Advanced Load Balancer as the integrated L4 load balancer. With a private CA it fails.
2024-02-05 · posts/lessons-learned-vsphere-with-tanzu-und-nsx-advanced-load-balancer-integration-mit-private-ca.md · 609 words · 3 min · matthias-grasmueck