VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5 went GA on Oct 11th 2022 and it comes with some pretty big enhancements, please check out the official VMware VCF 4.5 release notes for full details, however the following are what I think are the biggest improvements. Migration enablement: This release introduces support for Mixed Mode migrations and supports new topologies for migration […]
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VMware SDDC VCF LCM Upgrade to 4.4.0.0
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4.0.0 went GA on the 10th of Feb 2022 so very recently. There’s few interesting new features and capabilities looking at the release notes and I’m only going to quote what in my opinion are the most interesting. Pre-checks One of the new feature of 4.3 is that, once you have downloaded […]
Read More →SDDC Manager Prechecks fails with “The virtual machine is pinned to a host”
Let’s get straight into it. Problem I was facing was: from SDDC Manager, the LCM prechecks are failing on all host with an error message like the following: Checks for dry run of enter maintenance mode. The virtual machine is pinned to a host. This error message suggests there are virtual machines pinned to a […]
Read More →Disabling DRS in a vSphere Clustered Services (vCLS) enabled cluster
Recently I spent some time with DRS issues in my lab; more specifically dealing with disabling DRS on a vSphere 7.0 Update 1+ and since I couldn’t find a lot of documentation out there I thought to write this article both as learning note to myself as well as knowledge sharing to the community. vSphere […]
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