On this page I am collecting some useful and important links for the most common VCF 9.0.x customer situations. Design Blueprints for VMware Cloud FoundationVCF Fleet in a Single Site with Minimal FootprintVCF Fleet in a Single SiteVCF Fleet with Multiple Sites in a Single RegionVCF Fleet with Multiple Sites across Multiple RegionsVCF Fleet with …
Category: SDDC
VCF 9.0.1
The first patch of VCF (9.0.1) has been released in September and hereby I want to share some links which have been helpful for us: VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.1.0 Release Noteshttps://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vcf/vcf-9-0-and-later/9-0/release-notes/vmware-cloud-foundation-9-0-1-release-notes.html Update Sequence for VCF 9.0 and Compatible VMware Productshttps://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/390634/update-sequence-for-vcf-90-and-compatibl.html VCF 9.0 to VCF 9.0.1 Management Components Upgrade & Patching Runbookhttps://www.arunnukula.com/post/vcf-9-0-to-vcf-9-0-1-management-components-upgrade-patching-runbook PostgreSQL Service fails to …
VCF 9.0.x – password expiration
VCF 9 can rotate all your administrative passwords automatically if you do it first and foremost within the first 90 days after the initial deployment and afterwards if you remember yourself to do it regularly or if you get remembered by VCF. The latter only works for the infrastructure components at the moment (vCenter, ESX, …
VCF 9.0 – deployment experience
Since the brand new VCF 9 release (and the Beta before that) has been available, I have deployed it in a few different scenarios in our demo lab and right now I am in a few customer PoCs. Hereby I want to share my experience and gradually expand the blog. Overall I really love the …
VCF 9 – first takeaways
VCF 9 is out for a few weeks now. In the meantime, I have deployed it various times in the lab and currently I am involved in several customer PoC projects. Hereby, I want to share my biggest takeaways from this absolute stunning new release. I will start with bullet points and gradually expand them …
VCF 9 – mega launch day
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 …
VCF 5.2.1.1 – add VxRail VI WLD validation failed
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 …
VCF 5.2.1 – SDDC Manager update is stuck
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 …
VCF 5.2 – initial WLDM deployment fails when enabling Cluster EVC mode
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 …
VCF Bundle Management PowerShell Script
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 …










