Category: Tech Notes
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Ransomware Recovery and the Isolated Recovery Environment in VCF 9 (VMware Live Recovery for VCF 9, Part 10)
DR failover restores your last replicated state, which after an attack is often the compromised one. Here is how VMware Live Cyber Recovery uses an isolated clean room and a deep immutable snapshot history to recover VCF 9 workloads from ransomware.
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Planned Migration vs Failover vs Failback in VCF 9 Disaster Recovery (VMware Live Recovery for VCF 9, Part 9)
Planned migration, failover and failback are three intentions wired into one VCF 9 recovery plan. Here is how to choose the right one, and what failback really costs.
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Run Non-Disruptive DR Tests in VCF 9 Without Touching Production (VMware Live Recovery for VCF 9, Part 8)
A non-disruptive DR test in VCF 9 proves your recovery plan boots, but not that the service comes back. Here is how test recovery works, what it never touches, and how often to run it.
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What Networking Does Your VCF 9 Failover Actually Need? (VMware Live Recovery for VCF 9, Part 7)
Network mappings, re-IP with IP customization, and the test bubble decide whether a VCF 9 failover comes up reachable. A field guide to mapping, RTO cost, and the test that actually means something.
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Build Protection Groups and Recovery Plans in VCF 9 That Hold Up at Failover (VMware Live Recovery for VCF 9, Part 6)
Protection groups decide what fails over together and recovery plans decide how it comes back. A field guide to membership, five priority levels, dependencies and timed testing in VCF 9.
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Array-Based vs Host-Based Replication for VCF 9 Disaster Recovery (VMware Live Recovery for VCF 9, Part 5)
Array-based replication copies the volume in your storage array. Host-based Enhanced vSphere Replication copies each VM in the hypervisor. Here is which to use for VCF 9 disaster recovery, where each wins, and the numbers that decide it.
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Set Up vSphere Replication in VCF 9 Without Wrecking Your RPO (VMware Live Recovery for VCF 9, Part 4)
vSphere Replication is host-based, storage-independent, and now host-to-host in VCF 9. Here is how it really moves data, why your RPO slips, and how to size the pipe.
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The VMware Live Recovery Family for VCF 9 Disaster Recovery (VMware Live Recovery for VCF 9, Part 3)
VMware Live Recovery is one subscription over two very different engines. Here is how Live Site Recovery, Live Cyber Recovery and vSphere Replication fit together in VCF 9, and which one to reach for.
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How Do RPO and RTO Drive Your VCF 9 Disaster Recovery Design? (VMware Live Recovery for VCF 9, Part 2)
RPO and RTO are the two numbers that drive every VCF 9 disaster recovery decision. How to set them, tier them, and turn them into replication and recovery plan design.
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Disaster Recovery vs Backup in VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VMware Live Recovery for VCF 9, Part 1)
Backup keeps the data, disaster recovery keeps the service level. What VCF 9 changes for DR, how RPO and RTO drive the design, and a worked bandwidth example.
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An Operations Maturity Model for VCF Operations (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 18)
The four levels of operations maturity for VCF Operations, how to measure where you are, and why you climb in order rather than buying your way to the top.
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Operations Anti-Patterns in VCF Operations (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 17)
The self-inflicted wounds that turn VCF Operations into noise: forward-everything, policy sprawl, defaults as truth, and the cheap fixes for each.
Architect’s Toolkit
PJ’s Tools
VMware Cloud Foundation
- VCF Documentation
- VCF 9 Planning & Preparation Workbook
- VCF Bill of Materials (BoM)
- VMware Compatibility Guide
- VMware Interoperability Matrix
- VMware Configuration Maximums
- VMware Ports & Protocols
- VMware Hands-on Labs
- RVTools Download
Nutanix
AI & Cloud-Native Platform
- NVIDIA Build (Model Catalog)
- NVIDIA AI Enterprise Reference Architecture
- NVIDIA NIM Performance Benchmarking
- NVIDIA NGC Catalog
- NeMo Microservices Helm Chart
- Helm Charts Repository
- Hugging Face Models
Architecture & Design
About the Author
Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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