VMware Cloud Foundation 3.9 comes with many some great new features, such as: Cluster-Level Upgrade Support: Provides an option to select individual clusters within a workload domain for ESXi upgrades. Multi-Instance Management: Allows you to monitor multiple Cloud Foundation instances from a single console. Fibre Channel Storage as Principal Storage: Virtual Infrastructure (VI) workload domains […]
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Before you start the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager deployment you need to download the bundle from LCM. With SDDC Manager having internet connectivity that’s easily done by simply heading to Repository > Bundles and kick-off the download from there. The following is the bundle detail: If SDDC Manager is in a dark site, then you’ll […]
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VCF Lab Constructor (aka VLC) is a great PowerShell tool created by Ben Sier and Heath Johnson working at VMware in the Technical Marketing team. It’s the easiest way to essentially deploy a Cloud Foundation nested environment, without having to manually install ESXi, Cloud Builder as well as doing lots of validation on your own. Getting […]
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VCF 3.0 went GA only this Sept ’18 (see my previous article) and at #VMworld Europe 2018 this week VMware announced the next big release of Cloud Foundation, now at version 3.5 So what’s new? Latest and greatest versions for all components, please note that bill of material might change since 3.5 hasn’t GA yet ! Composable […]
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