Author Archives: Christian Liebner

About Christian Liebner

Christian has joined VMware in January 2009 as Internal Systems Engineer. Since he previously worked for a distributor as a supporter and trainer and at VMware as a Specialist for vSphere, HA & DR and then for Cloud Management Solutions in various cloud projects, he has gained experience in datacenter, server, storage, networking, security and cloud management technologies. Today his primary focus is on automation and operation topics with integration into many surrounding solutions like containers, configuration management, directory services and others. He is responsible for the management components in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) product family for enterprise customers in Germany.

Installing and Configuring VMware Data Services Manager 9.0.1 on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.1 with VCF Automation Integration.

By | 31. October 2025
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Within our new All Apps organization, we leverage Supervisor Services that are accessible through Kubernetes as well as VMware Cloud Foundation Automation.This post walks through deploying VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) as a Supervisor Service and using it to create databases automatically through the Automation portal. Deploy DSM Appliance In vCenter open the Administration Menü… Read More »

VCF9 – VCF Operations and VCF Operations for Logs installation/configuration without VCF Installer

By | 6. August 2025
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We sometimes get the question how to install a standalone VCF Operations and VCF Operations for Logs without the VCF installer. Some customers want to use the OVAs in their environments and manage them over the lifecycle option in Fleet Management. So only for monitoring purposes with some lifecycle options for the Management Solutions. I… Read More »

VVF9 – VCF Operations and VCF Operations for Logs installation/configuration without VCF Installer and Fleet Management

By | 6. August 2025
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We sometimes get the question how to install a standalone VCF Operations and VCF Operations for Logs without the VCF installer. Some customers want to use the OVAs in their environments and configure them without Fleet Management. So only for monitoring purposes without additional overhead for management. I have therefore reproduced the necessary steps and… Read More »

VCF 9 – Integrating a vSphere 8 environment as a new Workload Domain

By | 31. July 2025
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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 »