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VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 vSAN ESA Deployment
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 now brings support for vSAN ESA! In this blog post, I’ll discuss the pre-requisites and show an example of how to deploy a new workload domain that can support vSAN ESA. For further information and deep-dives on vSAN ESA, check out VMware vSAN Blogs. Pre-Requisites: VCF 5.1: I’m using a VMware…
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.2 Upgrade
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.2 has just been released, let’s take a look at the upgrade process. Release Notes Not much has changed in the upgrade process from an end-user point of view, but my lab environment has a couple of Async Patches installed – we need to begin by enabling the forward upgrade to 4.5.2….
Aria Lifecycle – Logs Cluster Scale-Out
Today we’ll be performing a “scale-out” operation for Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight) using Aria Lifecycle. This workflow would be used if you find your Logs cluster is under-resourced and you wanted to add additional worker nodes, or if you wanted to scale out from a single node to enable a high…
VCF / NSX-T Edge Node Resize
This blog post will cover the process to scale up your NSX-T edge nodes when used in a VCF environment. You may find that your existing edge nodes are reaching their throughput maximums, or you may need to scale up to enable more CPU heavy features such as L7 Load Balancing, or Tanzu support. Edge…
VCF 5.0 New Licensing Workflow
Today we’ll look at the new licensing workflows in VCF 5.0. If you’ve already had experience with older versions of VCF, you’ll know that the licensing can be a bit fiddly. The SDDC manager doesn’t manage this process end to end, so you end up adding the license keys to SDDC Manager, then manually to…
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0 Upgrade
The long awaited VCF 5.0 was recently released, here’s a post regarding my lab upgrade experience. Before you begin, read all the documents: !! VCF 5.0 Licensing Fulfillment Delays !! Official Release Announcement Release Notes VCF 5.0 Important KB Articles The source version for this upgrade is VCF 4.5.1, let’s get into it! Urgh, let’s…