Running a VCSA 7.0.3 (VCenter Server Appliance v7.x) on KVM/libvirtd - using virsh/virt-install

I came across this helpful gist where it described trying this with an old version of the VCSA (v6.0) using Ansible.

While I am not using ansible directly (yet), I was able to use the steps there as a starting point and adapt the workflow to be able to bring-up VCSA v7.0.3 in libvirt/KVM.. It should work for any 7.x version, but no guarentees if it will work with VCSA v8.x

There were some slight things i had to adapt (namely, the guestfish commands; the filesystem layout changed since this ansible workbook was created in the newer version of the VCSA).

Environment

aleks-mariusz / gistf87-podman-bridge.conflistile1.txt

Last active May 27, 2020 14:12

	{
	"cniVersion": "0.4.0",
	"name": "podman",
	"plugins": [
	{
	"type": "bridge",
	"bridge": "cni-podman0",
	"isGateway": true,
	"ipMasq": false,
	"ipam": {

aleks-mariusz / sync-all.sh

Created August 20, 2019 13:42

yum repo sync script

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	EL_VERSION=7

	LOG=/tmp/.sync-attempt-out.$$
	TIMESTAMP_FILE=/var/tmp/.sync-newer.$$

	YUM_BASE=/data/yum${EL_VERSION}
	YUM_REPOS_DIR=/etc/yum${EL_VERSION}.repos.d
	YUM_CONF=/etc/yum_${EL_VERSION}.conf

aleks-mariusz / 06-fluentd-daemonset.yaml

Last active September 25, 2018 18:35

set of fluentd configs for kubernetes aggregated logging into elasticsearch using fluentd, on k8s v1.11+ using docker 1.13+ on centos 7 - kubectl apply the 06-fluentd-daemonset.yaml after placing the other files below into a directory (such as "fluentd-configs") and create configmap using: kubectl -n monitoring create configmap es-fluentd --from…

	---
	# Source: fluentd-elasticsearch/templates/service-account.yaml
	apiVersion: v1
	kind: ServiceAccount
	metadata:
	name: es-fluentd
	namespace: monitoring
	labels:
	app: fluentd
	kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"

aleks-mariusz / node1.sh

Last active July 30, 2018 08:36

kubernetes v1.11.1 - HA setup scripts for centos 7.x used (kickstart file used: https://gist.github.com/aleks-mariusz/f01f3177a13f1e86e4088e5b6c7f278d) - need to also set up keepalived on 2nd/3rd node and replace socat with nginx

	#!/bin/sh

	INTERFACE=eth0
	NETMASK_CIDR='/24' # 255.255.255.0
	LOAD_BALANCER_IP=192.168.1.100
	LOAD_BALANCER_DNS=api-k8s-lab
	LOAD_BALANCER_PORT=6443

	CP_PORT=6443
	CP0_HOSTNAME=k8s-lab1

aleks-mariusz / key_dist.py

Last active April 26, 2017 23:02

used to distributing keys to different systems uniquely.. takes on standard input and distributes it uniquely to all clients hitting the /k endpoint

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import atexit
	import functools
	import gzip
	import itertools
	import logging
	import os
	import socket
	import sys

aleks-mariusz / find_stale_metrics.py

Created February 9, 2017 21:52

This utiilty helps to find metrics in graphite whisper format that haven't been updated in a preset number of days

	#!/usr/bin/python

	import optparse # argparse not available since most systems still have python 2.6 (argparse is in 2.7)
	import os
	import sys
	import time

	# helper function to return the parent dir given a dir
	parent_of = lambda p: os.path.sep.join( p.split( os.path.sep )[:-1] )

aleks-mariusz / post-install

Last active January 12, 2017 14:22

xenserver7 automated (unattended) installation using cobbler, a trigger script to work with cobbler.sync, also the post-install depends on this answerfile (treated as a kickstart file by cobbler) - sets up small OS partition, and whatever left over space as the xen-storage-repository, installs gluster, and if two disks of same size seen, mirrors…

	#!/bin/bash

	if [[ $1 -ne 0 ]]; then
	echo "ERROR: failed install, backing out changes"
	mdadm --stop /dev/md{0,1,2,3}
	mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sd{a,b}{1,4,5,6}
	sgdisk --zap /dev/sdb
	exit
	fi

aleks-mariusz / centos75-minimal.ks

Last active July 26, 2018 18:06

got centos 7.5 down to about 180 packages - around 600 meg installed, note: i removed xfsprogs because i'm using ext2, if you use xfs you may want to remove e2fs* instead

	install
	skipx
	text
	eula --agreed

	lang en_US.UTF-8
	keyboard us
	timezone Europe/London

	# Use network installation

aleks-mariusz / prep-graphite-db.py

Last active November 9, 2016 17:33

this script preps the sqlite db used by the web-app graphite after initial install by populating it with a default user, preventing a potential race condition resulting in a deadlock requiring the httpd server to be restarted after the first run

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import hashlib
	import hmac
	import random
	import sqlite3
	import string

	from base64 import b64encode
	from itertools import izip, starmap

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Running a VCSA 7.0.3 (VCenter Server Appliance v7.x) on KVM/libvirtd - using virsh/virt-install

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