Welcome back to the VCF 9.1 series. Next up, What’s New in VCF Operations. The release notes have a great overview of everything that’s new with VCF Operations, but I’ll highlight some of these things in this post. We have some nice UI improvements which better organize the menus based on the workflows you’ll be…
Operations in VCF 9.1 now has the ability to display real-time (2sec) granular metrics for vCenter, ESX, NSX and vSAN. This is essentially bringing ESXTop metrics into VCF Ops for a more streamlined experience. Before we can utilize this, we need to deploy the real-time metrics component into the VCF Management Services Cluster. Deployment Browse…
VCF 9.1 brings more integration for log management with the newest improvements for VCF Operations for Logs. Until now, this component was either a standalone appliance VM or a cluster – with VCF 9.1 the Ops for Logs functionality is brought into the VCF Management Services Cluster and fully managed via VCF Operations. We’ll start…
VCF Management Services The VCF 9.0 Identity Broker cluster started the trend towards moving VCF Management Services away from dedicated appliance VMs to containerized services running on a managed k8s cluster.With VCF 9.1 this is now being expanded further with the VCF Management Services Cluster, which is now a mandatory requirement for all VCF Deployments….
In this post, I’ll show the Upgrade process from VCF 9.0.2 to VCF 9.1.*Note: Screenshots are from a Beta version, GA may differ slightly. The overview for this process is as follows:1: Upgrade VCF Operations2: Upgrade SDDC Manager3: Deploy the Services Cluster with SDDC Manager4: Upgrade Management Components5: Upgrade core Management Domain Components (vCenter/NSX/ESX) First…
With the release of VCF 9.1, we have some new features and changes with the Installer & Deployment Wizard that I’ll cover in this post. First up – we’ve got a lot of new components in the Depot for the VCF Deployment.**Note: Screenshots have been taken from VCF 9.1 Beta. The GA version may differ…
Before we proceed further with the VVS Implementation, Broadcom has released a support bulletin for SSP Workload Cluster Instability which impacts SSP version 5.1. I’m seeing the same behaviour in my lab, so I’ll be applying this patch to the cluster before proceeding. There’s 2 KB articles we need to review, and it is advised…
Welcome back. In the first part we covered the SSP Deployment. We’ll cover the config and feature activation in this part. Once the deploy is successful, we can log directly into the SSP management – this was configured as ssp.site-a.vcf.lab We will be immediately prompted to onboard an NSX Manager. This demo will be for…
The VCF SSP is the next evolution of the NSX Application Platform that was available on version 4.x to enable functionality such as the Network Intrusion Detection/Prevention Services (IDS/IDP). Now we have some additional functionality such as real time security intelligence, malware prevention, traffic analysis and network metrics. Broadcom have just released the Lateral Security…
VCF 9.0.2 has just been released, in this blog post, we’ll show how to upgrade your 9.x environment to 9.0.2 First step is always to read the release notes, this will detail new features, bug fixes and any caveats with the update. Now make sure you have your depot configured, and we can start the…