Cloud Foundation LCM Update Failed on ESXi Host Upgrade Bundle

Recently I was running some Cloud Foundation upgrades for a customer and encountered a problem trying to execute an ESXi upgrade bundle. The error was the following: clicking on the host name that’s all you could see from the GUI ESX_UPGRADE_VUM_PRECHECK_CLUSTER_SIZE_INVALID Not super meaningful in all honest. All you can see is that Update Manager (VUM) […]

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Dedicated Edge cluster with vCloud Director 9.0.x and migration scenario

With vCloud Director for Service Providers 9.0 come a lot of new features most of which have already been greatly summarised by Tom Fojta in this article vCloud Director 9 What’s New as well as this official white paper In this article I’m focusing on the “edge gateways placement engine” a long awaited features which allows […]

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Out of sequence application of 2.2.0.2 bundles prevent application of 2.2.0.1 bundles on workload domain.

This is going to be a very quick post to share my finding with VMware Cloud Foundation 2.2 and the 2.2.0.2 fix bundle. The VMware Cloud Foundation 2.2.0.2 is an update bundle release that upgrades both Lifecycle Manager (LCM) and VMware NSX for vSphere. Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/2.2.0.2/rn/VMware-Cloud-Foundation-2202-Release-Notes.html As I work full time on VMware Cloud Foundation I […]

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