Category: VCF
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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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VCF 9.x Pre-Installation Checklist: What to Verify Before You Start the VCF Installer
A pre-check list for a fresh VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x management domain deployment (9.0 and 9.1), with the command to run for each item plus MTU-per-traffic and password requirement tables.
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Lab Workbook: A Beginner’s End-to-End Hands-On Task List
An instructor-style VCF 9 lab workbook for beginners: a lab-pod map, the phase-by-phase journey, a snapshot and rollback strategy, and grouped task tables from prep and bring-up through workload domains, NSX, storage, certificates, operations, upgrade, backup and teardown – with success-validation checks and a competency sign-off rubric.
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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.
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Content Sources and Content Sharing in VCF Automation: Feeding the Catalog (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 40)
Authoring a template and delivering it are two different jobs. This is the content-source and content-sharing model that gets templates into the VCF Automation catalog and in front of the right projects, plus the 9.1 Project Content Library.
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Identity, SSO and Custom Roles in VCF Automation: Wiring Up the VCF Identity Broker and RBAC (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 37)
How identity actually flows in VCF Automation 9: the VCF Identity Broker and VCF SSO for the provider plane, per-organization external IdPs for tenants, the OIDC claim-mapping that silently breaks group membership, and custom roles, rights bundles and global roles for RBAC, with a real vmware/vcfa Terraform example.
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Consuming All Apps the Kubernetes-Native Way in VCF Automation: kubectl and YAML (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 36)
The All Apps organization presents a Kubernetes-style API, so developers provision VMs, databases and clusters with kubectl and YAML. Here is the vcf-cli and token setup, the declarative flow, and when to use it over the portal or Terraform.
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Governing Private AI Consumption in VCF Automation: GPU Quotas, Policies and Roles (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 35)
GPU is the most expensive resource you will ever put behind self-service. Here is how to govern Private AI consumption in VCF Automation 9.1 with namespace GPU quotas, consumption policies, roles and per-namespace activation, without touching the AI stack itself.
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Property Groups and Secrets in VCF Automation: Reusable Inputs, Not Copy-Paste (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 34)
Inputs, property groups and secrets in VCF Automation 9 look interchangeable and are not. Where each value belongs, the scoping traps, the binding syntax, and how rotation actually works.
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How to Run Workloads in VCF Automation: VM Service, Container Service, Namespaces and VKS (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 39)
VCF 9.1 gives a workload four ways to run: a VM, a container with no cluster, a Supervisor namespace, or a full VKS cluster. What each is, how the namespace is the unit you hand a tenant, when a namespace beats a cluster, and a clear verdict.
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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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