As of today, VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 is generally available. In the next weeks I will try to post some blogs about my VCF 9 experience, but first I want to collect and share some of the most interesting links on this page. Announcement (Replay)Broadcom Delivers the Modern Private Cloudhttps://www.thecube.net/events/broadcom/modern-private-cloud Press ReleaseBroadcom Delivers the Modern …
Absolutely stunned! Only one day after I have been accepted to the VMware #vExpert #VCF subprogram, I have been knighted by Broadcom! 🎉 I cannot express in this way how honored and grateful I feel. Definitely a huge thank you to Richard Carlson, Michael Rankin, Curtis Gunderson and the Knights program team for rewarding me with …
Extremely honored to be recognized as a #vExpert for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)! Many thanks to Corey Romero and the #vCommunity. Can’t wait to share some #VCF9 content soon…
I am very honored to receive the #vExpert badge for the fifth year in a row! This recognition is a testament to what continues to be an incredible #vCommunity. Thank you to #VMware for this prestigious award and congratulations to all the other vExperts. Here’s to another year of collaboration, innovation and pushing boundaries in …
We wanted to add a VxRail VI WLD because we had four VxRail Nodes in our demo environment that had become free. This time we wanted it do it the “new way” which is possible since Version 5.2 – using the SDDC Manager UI instead of the WFO script. During the addition of the VI …
If you are updating the SDDC Manager from 5.2 to 5.2.1 in a strictly firewall secured environment where only a few, officially vendor documented URLs are allowed for outgoing traffic then you can possibly run into the same issue as we did. During the SDDC Manager update the process is stuck in the step “Refresh …
If you want to deploy a new VCF 5.2 Management Workload Domain using the Cloud Builder Appliance and want to activate the EVC mode during the deployment (what IMO you should always do except in the lab), it will unfortunately fail in the step “Enable Cluster EVC Mode”. Inexplicably, the deployment activates EVC mode after …
If you ever have some disk space issues on the SDDC Manager or just want to clean up all the old, downloaded update/upgrade bundles which you don’t need anymore, there is a nice PowerShell script from VMware which I want to show you in this post. The script is called VcfBundleManagement.ps1. It is explained in …
After a few months of winter darkness, rain, even storm (over here in Germany) and mostly negative publicity because of the Broadcom acquisition of VMware we can finally see the light at the end of the (SDDC) tunnel. The summer is back and so is VMware – back with a big and shiny monster release! …
The vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) will not only be the “default” Lifecycle Manager for VCF, but will also be increasingly integrated into VxRail environments and work hand in hand with the VxRail LCM. As of VxRail 8.0.210, vLCM supports additional functions that can shorten the update process: In this post I want to demonstrate how …
