Category Archives: VCF 9

VCF Automation 9 – New Terraform Providers for All-Apps-Org

By | 7. August 2025

When talking about automation, Terraform is a tool which is often used at customer installations. Many customers leverage it to manage public cloud resources as it originally has been built for that. As VCF is a private cloud solution it sounds logical to add those resources as well for a Terraform configuration. While there might… Read More »

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

By | 6. August 2025

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

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 Automation 9 – Console Access for VMs

By | 1. August 2025

So, you’ve installed VCF Automation 9, and you’re all excited to peek inside your shiny new virtual machines via Web Console or VMRC Client. Only… nothing happens. No console, no love, no joy. Just a blank stare and a silent scream. Don’t worry — it’s not you, it’s your certificates. Turns out, VCF Automation 9… 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 »

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

By | 31. July 2025

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 »

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 »

VCF Automation 9 – Provisioning a VM through Kubernetes CLI

By | 30. July 2025

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 »

VCF Automation 9 – Custom resource with “new schema”

By | 25. July 2025

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 – External VCF Operations Orchestrator

By | 23. July 2025

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 »

VCF Workload Domain Setup from a network perspective

By | 2. June 2025

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF for short) is a full-stack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform that offers software-defined compute, storage, networking, security, and management.

Workload domains are created, configured, and managed using the SDDC Manager.

For the installation and management of a workload domain in VCF to work smoothly, a few infrastructure requirements must first be met. This article focuses on the data center network parameters. I also assume that the management domain has already been created using the SDDC Manager.