Author Archives: Steffen Matthias

Help! I Joined the Wrong Identity Broker… (How to Unjoin an Identity Broker in VCF 9)

By | 15. September 2025

So, you proudly wired up your VCF 9 environment to an Identity Broker, hit save, and thought: “Nice, job done.” But then you realize… you just pointed your shiny Los Angeles VCF instance at the San Francisco Identity Broker. Oops. Now every time you try to configure Identity Broker in LA, it just kicks you… Read More »

Deploying a Three-Zone Supervisor in VCF 9.0.0 (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the API)

By | 31. July 2025

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 »

How to Add a Cluster to a Workload Domain in VCF 9.0.0 (Yes, It’s Weird Right Now)

By | 30. July 2025

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 »

vCenter Linking in VCF 9 – The New Shiny ELM

By | 30. July 2025

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 »