VCF 9.1 On VxRAIL 9.1.000 – Walkthrough (Part1: Management WLD) | #vExpert David Ring VCF 9.1 On VxRAIL 9.1.000 – Walkthrough (Part1:… Note: this is an example for reference only please use the VxRail installation procedures & services provided by Dell. This is the first in a series of posts covering VCF 9.1 On VxRail … Read more
Zero to VCAP: Building a VCF 9.1 Workload Domain, Screen by Screen – Humbled Geeks Zero to VCAP: Building a VCF 9.1 Workload… So this post does exactly what I promised at the end of Part 1: I take the remaining four Cisco UCS B200 blades in the same UCS 5108 chassis and turn them … Read more
VCF 9.1 – Auditing VCF Management Services (VCFMS) IP Pool Usage VCF 9.1 – Auditing VCF Management Services… As part of deploying the new VCF Management Services (VCFMS) component, a pool of IP addresses is provided to support the automatic deployment and scale-out of additional worker nodes for Day-N services such as Log Management and … Read more
Rightsizing and Reclamation Exclusions using vSphere Tags in VCF Operations 9.1 – #vExpert Brock Peterson Rightsizing and Reclamation Exclusions using… If you’re running VCF Operations 9.1 you’ll notice this small (but very powerful) new feature, allowing us to exclude VMs from the Rightsizing and/or Reclamation engines, here’s what it looks like.Selecting EXCLUSION SETTINGS presents the … Read more
The Biggest Mistakes I See During Disaster Recovery Testing – #vExpert Krzysztof Salwa The Biggest Mistakes I See During Disaster… Disaster Recovery testing is one of the most valuable activities an organization can perform to validate its resilience strategy. Most enterprises invest heavily in backup solutions, replication technologies, and recovery infrastructure. However, many still discover … Read more
Configuring Email Alerts in Data Services Manager version 9.1 – Cormac Hogan Configuring Email Alerts in Data Services… I was recently asked to assist with some troubleshooting of the Email Alerting mechanism in Data Services Manager (DSM). The first thing to note is that there are different types of alerts that can be raised and … Read more
It’s never been more important to keep your VCF environment current. As frontier AI models demonstrate an unprecedented ability to chain complex vulnerabilities together, regular updates to your VCF environment are essential to shrink your attack surface and harden your defense-in-depth architecture. This blog walks through the typical process that VCF Professional Services uses to … Read more
Clarifying Minimum Required ESX Hosts for VCF Deployments | William Lam Clarifying Minimum Required ESX Hosts for VCF… The VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.x Installer includes a built-in resource calculator that automatically determines the required compute and storage resources, along with the estimated number of ESX hosts needed to support the selected deployment configuration. Understanding … Read more
How to Import VMs into VCF Automation | VCF Automation (VCFA) is the new cloud management layer on top of VCF. Which brings the question how can you import legacy VM workloads under VCF Automation management? – #vExpert Tom Fojta How to Import VMs into VCF Automation VCF Automation (VCFA) is the new cloud management … Read more
#121 – Operational, Disaster, and Ransomware Recovery using VCF Protection and Recovery featuring Velina Krasteva! #121 – Operational, Disaster, and Ransomware… With VCF 9.1 the name of VMware Live Recovery, or Site Recovery Manager, seems to have changed to VCF Protection and Recovery. In this episode Velina explains how this platform provides administrators the ability … Read more