Category: Automation
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Flavor Mappings, Image Mappings and Network and Storage Profiles in VCF Automation (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 11)
Mappings and profiles are the translation layer that makes one template deploy in any region. Flavor and image mappings, network profiles, storage, and the naming contract that ties them together.
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Cloud Zones, Regions and Placement in VCF Automation (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 10)
A cloud zone is where deploy a VM becomes this VM on that cluster. Regions and zones, the many-to-many with projects, placement policies, and capability and compute tags that steer where work lands.
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Cloud Accounts in VCF Automation: Connecting vCenter and NSX (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 9)
A cloud account is the credential that lets VCF Automation collect inventory and deploy. Adding vCenter and NSX accounts, the VCF account and SDDC Manager, and the NSX manager-mode removal in 9.0.
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Projects in VCF Automation: Members, Roles, Resource Limits and Constraints (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 8)
If the tenant is the wall, the project is the room. Members and roles, namespaces and resource limits, cloud zones, and constraints as the governance tags that steer placement.
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Tenant Organizations in VCF Automation: Creating and Scoping Tenants (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 7)
A tenant is an isolation boundary, not a folder. Creating tenant organizations, federating identity with an external IdP, and scoping them with quotas and shared or dedicated gateways.
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Setting Up the VCF Automation Provider Organization: Regions, IP Spaces and the Provider Gateway (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 6)
Your first login is to the system org, not your cloud. Quick Start vs Manual setup, building provider infrastructure with regions, IP spaces and a provider gateway, then the first tenant.
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VCF Automation Licensing: What the VCF Subscription Includes and What It Does Not (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 5)
There is no separate VCF Automation license, it is bundled into the VCF per-core subscription. What that means, the VVF trap, how core counting works, and what still costs extra.
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Deploying and Enabling VCF Automation via Fleet Management (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 4)
VCF Automation is not installed, it is enabled as a fleet component. The prerequisites, the appliance inputs that trip people up, and what to do the moment it comes up.
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VM Apps vs All Apps Organizations in VCF Automation: Which Model to Choose (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 3)
VM Apps and All Apps are not two skins on one engine, they are two architectures. The differences, a decision tree, and a clear verdict on which organization type to choose.
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VCF Automation 9 Architecture: Assembler, Service Broker, Orchestrator and How a Request Becomes a Deployment (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 2)
The architecture of VCF Automation 9: the three services, the deployment engine between them, how a catalog request turns into a running workload, and where extensibility hooks in.
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What VCF Automation Is: The Product Formerly Known as vRealize Automation, in VCF 9 (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 1)
VCF Automation is vRealize Automation’s lineage on VCF’s architecture. What it is, the three services you work in, the provider/tenant/project model, and the VM Apps vs All Apps fork.
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VCF 9 API Authentication: Tokens, Refresh, Service Accounts and RBAC (Automating VCF Series, Part 3)
Authentication on VCF 9 is a subsystem, not a one-line step. Token pairs, the 60-minute expiry, refresh handling, service accounts and the ADMIN/OPERATOR/VIEWER roles.
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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