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Home Lab: Memory Tiering in VCF 9.1

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New home lab BOM for VCF 9.1

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VCF 9: Using an Offline Depot with SDDC Manager

Background information I am using one ESXi Host 8.0 Update 3 connected to two NFS shares running my core management components like SFTP Server Sub and root CA Domain controllers and global catalogs Depot server for the offline depot VCF Installer (9.0.1.0.24962180) Last time I setup my 2-Node VCF management cluster, I ended up with the bare minimum of deployed virtual machines VCF…

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VCF 9: Create an Offline Depot Web Server (Part II)

In the blog article of part I, the config file (conf.cfg) for the certificate signing request (request.csr) contains an entry for the IP address. If you want to use the IP and have it green in the browser url, you need to use a fixed IP address for the Photon OS 5.0 VM. So some important settings or configuration tasks to consider: making sure hostname is set to the fqdn fixed IP / DNS /…

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VCF 9: Create an Offline Depot Web Server (Part I)

Today, I will play with the Offline Depot Web Server. There is an official documentation provided by BROADCOM which I followed in general. But there are some details the link does not describe detailed enough. I will try to do so here: Installing Photon OS 5.0 GA from the repository I decided to use the full iso x86_64. I created a VM with 1 vCPU, 4 GB Ram, 50 GB disk for the OS and an…

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VCF 9: Deploy VCF Fleet

The release notes of VCF 9.0 are dated with 17th June 2025. The release notes of VCF 9.0.1.0 are dated with 29th September 2025. I am starting this blog article on 15th November 2025. I am joining the party late today, yes. My starting point Using the VCF Planning and Preparation Workbook and filling the cells with passwords, IP addresses, and FQDNs is the first step. Using two Super Server…

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VCF 9: Fleet Management in VCF Operations - Overview

Let us first start with the term “Fleet Management” – what does it mean? UI shows entry points for administrative tasks and Consolidates common management activities for Identity and Access Certificates Passwords Tags Configuration Drifts Lifecycle VCF 9 Fleet Management Let’s take a look on these tasks next

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VCF 9: Upgrade existing vSphere infrastructure to VCF 9

For brownfield environments you can convert or import your vSphere infrastructure. Convert You have an existing vSphere infrastructure. You can convert your environment into a VCF 9 Management Domain with the following supported technologies (examples – there are some more): vSAN OSA or vSAN ESA NFS v3 or NFS 4.1 VMFS volumes LACP ESXi with single physical NIC Prerequisites (minimum…

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VCF 9: Smaller Management Cluster (Single Site)

With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation 9, it is possible to build the management cluster with less ESX hosts (and yes, from now on the term is ESX, no more ESXi, see ESX Installation and Setup documentation). In earlier releases of VCF, you were required to use four ESXi hosts for your management domain and vSAN as primary storage. Now you can use Fibre Channel or NFS as primary storage.…

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VCF 9: Simple Deployment vs HA Deployment

With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation 9, it is possible to build the management cluster with less appliances. Simple Deployment: 7 appliances required HA Deployment: 13 appliances required If it makes sense for one to go f. ex. with only one VCF Ops node or only one NSX Manager node is a matter of requirements and related to design decisions.

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Part VI Beginners Guide - VCF 5.2.1 Updating SDDC Manager, NSX, vCenter, ESXi Hosts

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VCF 5.2.1 - Configuration Update

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Part IV Beginners Guide - Using Nested ESXi Hosts for VCF 5.2.1 Home Lab

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Part III Beginners Guide - Using Nested ESXi Hosts for a VCF 5.2.1 Home Lab

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Beginners Guide - Using Nested ESXi Hosts for a VCF 5.2.1 Home Lab

Attention: Using Nested ESXi (ESXi installed on ESXi) is not supported by VMware (or Broadcom). Use for your personal practices/learnings only. Not to be used for production environments. Part II – Creating an ESXi VM with my settings To use YOUR own ESXi virtual machine for your VCF lab, several details need to be prepared. You can create as well the ESXi VM with two or three virtual disks…

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Beginners Guide - Using Nested ESXi Hosts for VCF 5.2.1 Home Lab

Attention: Using Nested ESXi (ESXi installed on ESXi) is not supported by VMware (or Broadcom). Use for your personal practices/learnings only. Not to be used for production environments. Part I – My Network Configuration Everyone’s network at home is different. See my configuration with my explanations hoping it will help you. On my physical ESXi Hosts, my VyOS router is running providing…

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