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 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…
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….
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…
VCF – Delete Domain Failed
June 8, 2022 VCF – Delete Domain Failed Delete Domain Workflow Fails The Issue – Delete…