VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 6: Topology and Identity Boundaries for Single Site, Dual Site, and Multi-Region
TL;DR Scope: VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.0.0 GA (primary platform build 24703748) and the associated 9.0 GA…
VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 5: Topology Patterns for Single Site, Two Sites, and Multi-Region
TL;DR Identity is not a “later” decision. It is a boundary decision. The hierarchy you should…
VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 4: Fleet Topologies and SSO Boundaries (Single Site, Dual Site, Multi-Region)
TL;DR This post targets VCF 9.0 GA only: VCF 9.0 (17 JUN 2025) build 24755599, with…
After You Migrate: Cleanup, Governance, and Preventing Unmanaged Disks from Coming Back
TL;DR Converting disks is not the finish line. Your real goal is a new steady state:…
VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 2: Fleet Services vs Instance Management Planes (and Who Owns What)
TL;DR Practical implication: if fleet services are impaired, governance and workflows degrade, but the instance-level control…
Authentication Failure: VCF SSO Broken
January 7, 2026 Authentication Failure: VCF SSO Broken vCenter vIDB Service Unavailable The Issue? It is…
vCenter Supervisor Management is Blank
November 7, 2025 vCenter Supervisor Management is Blank Enabling / Disabling Supervisor Management Errors The Issue?…
VCF 9 Fleet Deployment Task Fails
October 13, 2025 VCF 9 Fleet Deployment Task Fails The Issue? As with any failed deployment,…
VCF 9 NFS Fails To Deploy
After some investigation, via general log trawling and UI clicking, I found that on each host,…
VMware VCF 9 Deep Dive: Unlocking NSX Power in Modern On-Prem Data Centers
What’s New in VCF 9 (with NSX) GUI steps and automation for these features follow similar…
VMware Cloud Foundation Add Host and Cluster Failed – LAB2PROD
June 6, 2024 FIX: VMware Cloud Foundation Add Host and Cluster Failed The Issue?: Can’t Add…
Manual Product Upgrades – LAB2PROD
February 13, 2024 VMware Cloud Foundation: Manual Product Upgrades Why You Shouldn’t Upgrade VMware NSX Manually…
VMware Cloud Foundation: Patching Failed – LAB2PROD
1. Connect to each NSX Manager via SSH. February 7, 2024 VMware Cloud Foundation: Patching Failed…
Domain Failed State – LAB2PROD
July 3, 2023 VMware Cloud Foundation: Domain Failed State Environment Upgrade Blocked The Issue? Related You…
VCF, NSX, SD-WAN, AWS – LAB2PROD
I get asked about my homelab quite a bit, so this post details the recent architecture…