I was recently cleaning up some orphaned vSphere Container Volumes and while I was able to compare the Persistent Volumes (PV) IDs against the ones […]
Месяц: Июнь 2026
What Host Lifecycle Operations Are Available after Importing vCenter into VCF 9.x Fleet?
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) first introduced the Brownfield Import capability in VCF 5.2, making it easy for customers to onboard their existing vSphere environments into […]
VCF 9.1 — Enabling High Availability for a Small VCF Management Services (VCFMS) Deployment
When deploying a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 Fleet, users specify either a Simple or High Availability (HA) deployment model along with the desired […]
Clarifying Minimum Required ESX Hosts for VCF Deployments
The VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.x Installer includes a built-in resource calculator that automatically determines the required compute and storage resources, along with the estimated […]
VCF 9.1 — Auditing VCF Management Services (VCFMS) IP Pool Usage
As part of deploying the new VCF Management Services (VCFMS) component, a pool of IP addresses is provided to support the automatic deployment and scale-out […]
VCF 9.1 — Auditing vCenter Server Connections using the Connection Utilization API
vCenter Server has had the ability to audit vSphere logins, whether through the API or UI, for nearly two decades using vSphere Events, which provide […]
Quick Tip: Resolving OVFTool «Failed to Send File» Errors on macOS
I frequently deploy and re-deploy VMware Virtual Appliances (OVA), which I fully automate using OVFTool from my macOS x86 system. Recently, I noticed that deployments […]
VCF 9.1 — Are You Using the Correct ESXCLI Command to Enable NVMe Tiering?
Historically, enabling NVMe Tiering prior to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 was not very user friendly, as it required users to remember three distinct ESXCLI […]
VCF 9.1 — OCuLink External Graphics (eGPU) Passthrough with vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS)
The Minisforum MS-A2 continues to be a popular and versatile platform for running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 in a lab environment. While the MS-A2 […]
VCF 9.1 — Quick Tip: Uninstalling Optional Day-N Components
There are a number of new capabilities in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 that can be deployed as Day-N operations after the initial VCF Fleet […]
