Holodeck Tool Kit 2.0

[Theresa Thompson]

The VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Holodeck Toolkit is designed to provide a scalable, repeatable way to deploy nested Cloud Foundation hands-on environments directly on VMware ESXi hosts. These environments are ideal for multi-team hands on exercises exploring the capabilities of VCF delivering a Customer Managed VMware Cloud.

The Holodeck Toolkit 2.0 package is comprised of several major components:

• VCF Lab Constructor (VLC) 5.0 package to fully automate deployment of repeatable nested Cloud Foundation labs on a single ESXi host. This release supports VCF 4.5, 4.5.1 and 5.0
• Custom VLC-Holo-Site-1 and VLC-Holo-Site-2 configuration files for VLC supporting multi-site VMware Cloud Foundation deployments.
• Custom VMware Photon OS based Holo-Router to support communications within a nested VCF environment and from within the environment to outside network.
• Custom Microsoft Windows Server 2019 based Holo-Console 
• Fully automated Holo-Console ISO generation 
• Full deployment and operations guidance for one or more Holodeck servers
• "Always succeed" Holodeck lab set to demonstrate the Cloud Operating Model to multiple teams within the datacenter
• Software Defined Networking and Security with VMware NSX Data Center
• VMware Cloud Foundation based private cloud automation
• Scaling application deployment and monitoring with VMware vRealize  Automation
• Workload Migration with VMware HCX
• Application Modernization with VMware Tanzu 

[Mark Sorrell]

Where are the Holodeck files?  They've disappeared from VMware.com and are nowhere to be found here at Broadcom?  Please help.  Thank you.

[Kalle Rontti]

I'm also looking for Holodeck files.

[vidar berg+ingebrigtsen]

Hi, I am looking for the Holodeck files for my VCF lab , working on a certification.  Can you tell me where I can find them?

[Harm-Jan F. Scholte]

I'm also looking for Holodeck files.

[Jeremiah Megie]

Hi everyone,

We are currently refreshing holodeck content and getting everything moved over from the old TechZone site. In the interim, you can find the holodeck documentation here, and request a download link via this Google Form.

We sincerely appreciate your patience while we make updates and get things moved around.

[danielmgrinnell]

Also looking for the Holodeck files. 

Sounds like its being moved:
William Lam's site:  "TechZone has gone away, which is where Holodeck content is hosted. It's being worked on to be re-hosted, stay tuned for updates and its new home"

https://williamlam.com/2023/03/self-contained-automated-vmware-cloud-foundation-vcf-deployment-using-new-vlc-holodeck-toolkit.html

[Jeremiah Megie]

See my note above, I provided links to use for now while we are updating and re-homing the content. 

[vidar berg+ingebrigtsen]

Hi Jeremiah, thank you for the update. Do you have a interim link for the 5.1 documentation as well?

[Jeremiah Megie]

Whoops, the documentation link was wrong! I just fixed it, sorry about that.

Holodeck Documentation

[danielmgrinnell]

Does Holodeck require any licensing or is it all eval? 

Thanks 

[Theresa Thompson]

Holodeck utilizes license later to install VCF and using the Easy installer for Aria Automation, it also can be installed with a 60 day demo license native to the product.

Last I checked customers will need entitlements to download the software bits from suppport.broadcom.com