Category: Automation
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The VCF 9 Automation Toolchain: REST API, SDK, PowerCLI, Terraform and Ansible (Automating VCF Series, Part 2)
VCF 9 has one blessed contract and five good ways to call it. Here is what PowerCLI, Terraform, Ansible, the Unified SDK and curl are each actually for, and how to pick.
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Why Automate VCF 9: The API-First Shift and What Actually Changed (Automating VCF Series, Part 1)
VCF 9 collapsed SDDC Manager, vCenter, NSX and vSAN behind one Unified REST API. Here is what changed, the five tools that share it, and where I would start automating.
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NSX 9 Automation and API: The Policy API, the Hierarchical Tree and Terraform (NSX Series, Part 28)
NSX 9 removed the Manager API, so automation now means the declarative Policy API. Here is why intent beats imperative scripting, how the hierarchical API builds a whole topology in one call, and where Terraform, Ansible and PowerCLI fit on top.
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Self-Service AI Catalog Items with VCF Automation for VMware Private AI (Private AI Series, Part 16)
How to publish self-service GPU catalog items for VMware Private AI Foundation with the VCF Automation Quickstart, plus the namespace, vGPU class and quota bindings that decide whether the catalog is safe to hand out.
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VCF 9 Automation and the API-First Stack: A Practical Runbook (VCF 9 Series, Part 32)
A practical runbook for automating VMware Cloud Foundation 9: set up OAuth 2.0 token authentication, pick between PowerCLI, the Unified SDK and Terraform, and wire it into CI/CD without leaking tokens.
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How To – Enable NIC Teaming in Windows 10 using PowerShell
Hey All, Today I am going to write a blog on How to Enable NIC teaming in Windows 10 Operating System. While I was configuring my home lab, I had planned to use existing two Network Adaptors as NIC teaming on a Windows 10 machine. I had explored the same and thought to share with…
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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