So, you’ve made it to VMware Cloud Foundation 9, and you’re dreaming of a production-grade, highly available Kubernetes setup. You want Supervisor spread across three fault domains like a proper cloud-native boss. Well… buckle up, because this ain’t your usual click-click-done setup. Why? Because the vCenter GUI forgot something important (again 😅). But fear not—I’m… Read More »
There are many VMware users who are still using pure vSphere environments and now want to switch to VCF. This can also lead to constellations where an upgrade to vSphere 9 (vCenter and ESX) is not planned or possible. Nevertheless, it is possible to import the vSphere 8 environments and operate and manage them as… Read More »
So, you want to add a cluster to a workload domain in VCF? Great! Just log in to your WLD vCenter, right-click the datacenter, and hit “New SDDC Cluster”, right? Nope 😊 Turns out, things aren’t that straightforward—because that button? Yeah, it didn’t make it to the code. 🙃 But don’t worry, I’ll walk you… Read More »
So, you’ve upgraded (or are thinking about upgrading) to VCF 9.0, and someone drops this bombshell: “Hey… ELM is gone.” Yep. That’s right. Enhanced Linked Mode is officially out in VCF 9. But don’t panic! You still get ELM-like magic with a shiny new feature called vCenter Linking just with a few differences and one… Read More »
With the improvements of VCF Automation 9 it now includes a new model which supports developer consumer use cases. In context of the tenancy architecture, it provides 2 different types of organizations: VM-Apps-OrgAn organization which is almost identical to what is known from 8.x versions of Aria Automation. Its main purpose is to support VM-based… Read More »
A while ago I created a blog about creating a customer resource using Aria Orchestrator dynamic types. The example taken was a simple link management solution which leverages the Orchestrator configuration items. In this blog I will use the same example but in a different way. VCF Automation 9 has introduced a “new schema” type… Read More »
VCF Automation 9 introduced 2 types of organizations: VM-Apps-Organization and All-Apps-Organization. The VM-Apps-Organization is almost identical to the 8.x version of Aria Automation and can use the embedded or an external Orchestrator. The All-Apps-Organization is a completely new architecture which relies on Kubernetes APIs. It can use Orchestrator for extensibility, custom resources and other functions… Read More »
A few weeks ago, I described in the blog https://vrealize.it/2025/06/02/vcf-nsx-edge-setup-aus-netzwerksicht/ how the NSX Edges in VCF5.x are deployed via the SDDC Manager.
In my opinion, the interaction between the individual components has been improved in VCF9, making it more user-friendly. Some changes can also be seen in the interaction with NSX.
The installation of the NSX Manager and configuration of the overlay network on the ESX hosts is performed in VCF9 via VCF Operations. Edges can be installed and configured directly from vCenter. However, installation and configuration via the NSX Manager is still possible.