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 …
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VCF 9 – 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 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 …
VCF 5.2 – big launch day
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! …
VCF VI Workload Domain with NFS and a Static IP-Pool for Host TEP network
If you ever need a new VI Workload Domain in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Version 5.1 using NFS as principal storage and you don’t have a DHCP serverfor the Host TEP network of your Transport Nodes (or don’t want to use one) you have to get a little creative. Unfortunately, you cannot use one of …