Building a VCF 9.1 Upgrade Runbook: Testing, Fallback, and Readiness Gates
Scenario The important decision is not whether the team wants to continue. It should control the…
The VCF Upgrade Readiness Review: Decisions Before You Open the Planner
VCF 9.1 is not just a component version bump. Broadcom’s VCF 9.1 guidance calls out management-plane…
Patching vCenter Through VAMI Without Turning It Into a Recovery Event
service-control –status –all There are also specific VCF scenarios where Broadcom guidance explicitly tells customers to…
Creating a VCF Workload Domain Fails
After all the configuration is validated and you kick off the workflow, it stops / errors…
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 3: Day-0 to Day-2 Ownership Across Fleets, Instances, and Domains
TL;DR A) One fleet, one instance, stretched where justified In VCF 9.0, identity is not a…
VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 1: Fleets, Instances, Domains, and the Fleet Management Layer
TL;DR This is the “where do we do the thing” map you want in every runbook….