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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DISCLAIMER this post is based on VCF on VxRack SDDC. VCF DIY / ready-nodes might be less prescriptive in terms of constraints or have different supported configurations. When a workload domain (WLD) is provisioned in Cloud Foundation from SDDC Manager, a default VM storage policy is created and associated with the new cluster and it’s […]
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