Category: VCF & Infra Series
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Configuration Compliance and Drift in VCF Operations: Catching Drift Before the Auditor Does (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 10)
How VCF Operations scores configuration compliance, why a green cluster can still drift, and the honest line between what base Operations shows and what the Advanced Cyber Compliance add-on enforces.
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Rightsizing and Reclamation in VCF Operations (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 9)
Reclaim capacity in VCF Operations from snapshots, orphaned disks, dead VMs and oversized VMs. Rightsize CPU freely, memory carefully, and record realized savings.
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Set Up Cost Visibility and Showback in VCF Operations (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 8)
VCF Operations Cost Management turns invisible infrastructure spend into per-workload cost. Showback vs chargeback, cost drivers, rate cards, and why to show before you bill.
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Performance Troubleshooting in VCF Operations: Chase Contention, Not Utilization (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 7)
Performance troubleshooting in VCF Operations is a hunt for contention: CPU ready, co-stop, ballooning, swap and latency. Use the Troubleshooting Workbench to find cause, not utilization.
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What Does Running Out of Capacity Mean in VCF Operations? (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 6)
Capacity in VCF Operations is time remaining on your most constrained resource, measured against usable capacity. How the demand vs allocation model and HA admission control change the answer.
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Alerts and Symptoms in VCF Operations Without the Alert Fatigue (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 5)
Symptoms, alert definitions, recommendations and actions in VCF Operations, and the four levers, wait cycles, severity ladders, notification rules and deactivation, that end alert fatigue.
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Dashboards in VCF Operations That Actually Get Used (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 4)
Most predefined VCF Operations dashboards never get opened twice. How to build the few that earn their place: scoped, interactive, audience-driven, plus views and reports.
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Deploying and Connecting VCF Operations: Adapters, Cloud Proxies and Data Sources (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 3)
In VCF 9 the installer deploys VCF Operations, so the work is connection: integrations, accounts and adapters, cloud proxies and collector groups, and the defaults that bite.
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The VCF Operations Data Model: Objects, Metrics, Properties and Relationships (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 2)
The VCF Operations data model explained: objects, metrics, properties and relationships, and why telling a metric from a property decides whether your alerts ever fire.
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What VCF Operations Is in VCF 9: The Day-2 Console That Replaced Aria Operations (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 1)
VCF Operations is the mandatory day-2 console in VMware Cloud Foundation 9. What it is, what it absorbed from Aria Operations, and why to run it as a tier-0 service.
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Generating Certificates End to End in VCF 9: From CSR to Auto-Renewal (VCF 9 Series, Part 36)
A hands-on guide for VCF administrators: how certificate management works in VCF 9, preparing your Microsoft CA, generating a CSR, signing and replacing certificates from the VCF Operations console, and enabling automatic renewal.
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Notifications and the Consumer Experience in VCF Automation (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 41)
Governance without notice feels like sabotage. This is how notifications work in VCF Automation 9: the outbound email scenarios, the in-UI reports and alerts, provider-controlled tenant visibility, and how to make sure the warnings actually get read.
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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