In this article I’m going to demonstrate the steps required to perform an incremental online LCM update from VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 to 4.0.1, specifically on the management workload domain. VCF 4.0.1 released 25/06/2020 and this is release notes link Note that I used the word incremental to identify that LCM is going to apply […]
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VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 3.9.1 includes the following updated Bill of Materials (BOM): vSphere + ESXi + vSAN are 6.7 Update 3b NSX-V is 6.4.6 SDDC Manager is 3.9.1 All the remaining components are at the same level as VCF 3.9.In terms of new capabilities I would like to focus on the following major enhancements: […]
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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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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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