Category: VMware & Cloud
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Secure Enterprise AI with VMware Private AI on VCF 9 (HCLTech White Paper)
HCLTech white paper: securing enterprise AI with VMware Private AI on VCF 9 — data protection, compliance, control and sovereignty.
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VCF 9 Complete Guides & Series
A set of deep-dive technical series for VMware Cloud Foundation 9 and its components — concepts, architecture and day-2 operations, explained part by part. Pick one below to read the full series. VCF 9 Complete GuideEnd-to-end VCF 9 deployment, operations, and day-2.Read →VCF 9.1 Deployment (Step by Step)Greenfield build of a VCF 9.1 fleet in…
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Decommissioning TKGI and Ops Manager After the VKS Migration (TKGI to VKS Series, Part 26)
TKGI is idle and VKS carries production, so now you retire the old platform. A step by step teardown of TKGI clusters, NSX-T objects, BOSH and Ops Manager, with the point of no return marked and the capacity handed back to VCF 9.
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Observability, Backup and Disaster Recovery on VKS (TKGI to VKS Series, Part 25)
Observability, backup and disaster recovery on VKS, the safety net under a migrated estate. Stand up metrics, logs and traces, schedule Velero backups with volume data movement, and prove recovery with a restore drill that catches the crash-consistent database trap.
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Day-2 Operations on VKS, Lifecycle, Upgrades and Scaling vs BOSH (TKGI to VKS Series, Part 24)
After the cutover, Day-2 on VKS replaces BOSH and Ops Manager with a declarative model. Here is how to upgrade Kubernetes versions, scale node pools, and roll back safely, with the commands that map to your old TKGI habits.
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Production Cutover to VKS, Traffic Shift, Validation and Rollback (TKGI to VKS Series, Part 23)
The production move from TKGI to VKS in one runbook: lower the DNS TTL ahead of time, shift traffic at a load balancer you control, validate the real user path, and keep a rollback that takes seconds because the old platform stays warm.
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VKS Pilot Migration, One Non-Prod Cluster End to End (TKGI to VKS Series, Part 22)
A pilot runs the whole TKGI to VKS playbook against one non-prod cluster, start to finish, so your production cutover repeats a proven run instead of improvising under load. Here is the end to end runbook, with real timings and the failures to expect.
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Secrets, Config and CI/CD Pipeline Migration to VKS (TKGI to VKS Series, Part 21)
Move plain secrets and ConfigMaps with Velero, re-seal sealed secrets against VKS, and give your CI/CD pipeline a real service account instead of a human login.
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Ingress, Load Balancing and DNS Cutover on VKS (TKGI to VKS Series, Part 20)
The traffic move from TKGI to VKS is a drain, not a DNS flip. This runbook stands up a load balanced ingress on VKS, lowers TTL, shifts traffic in weighted steps, and keeps a clean rollback the whole way.
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Migrating a Stateful Application with Persistent Volumes on VKS (TKGI to VKS Series, Part 19)
Moving a 500 GB PostgreSQL volume from TKGI to VKS with Velero snapshot data movement, a storage class mapping that stops the PVC hanging, and a checkpoint hook that stops the database coming back corrupt.
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Migrating a Stateless Application End to End on VKS (TKGI to VKS Series, Part 18)
Move a stateless service from TKGI to VKS with Velero, then fix the two things that break on VCF 9, Pod Security admission and image pull secrets, before you touch DNS.
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Velero on Source and Target, the Migration Toolchain (TKGI to VKS Series, Part 17)
Velero is the one toolchain that spans both estates in a TKGI to VKS migration. Install it on the source TKGI cluster and the target VKS cluster, wire shared S3 object storage, and prove a backup restores before any workload moves.
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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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