An interesting set of deployment scenarios has been coming up as customers begin planning their upgrade to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1. Customers’ existing deployments […]
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VCF 9.1 — Understanding VCF Express Patches
AI has fundamentally changed the software industry through its ability to discover software vulnerabilities at an unprecedented pace. This has driven software vendors to adopt […]
Quick Tip: How to Identify Which Kubernetes Cluster Owns a vSphere Container Volume (PV)
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 […]
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 […]