Tag: extensibility
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Custom Resources and Resource Actions in VCF Automation: Day-2 Operations That Stay Honest (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 23)
How to model external objects as custom resources in VCF Automation 9 and wire day-2 resource actions through VCF Operations Orchestrator, including the read-workflow trap that makes deployments lie about their own state.
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Event Broker Subscriptions in VCF Automation: Blocking, Conditions and Extensibility Patterns (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 19)
Subscriptions are the wiring that connects deployment events to your ABX actions and Orchestrator workflows. Here is how blocking and non-blocking topics behave, why every subscription needs a condition, and the patterns that keep extensibility from wedging your deployments.
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ABX Actions in VCF Automation: Action Based Extensibility and When to Use It (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 18)
ABX gives you short, polyglot FaaS scripts that fire on deployment events in VCF Automation 9. Here is how an action is built, where it runs and what it costs, and the honest verdict on ABX versus VCF Operations Orchestrator.
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VCF Operations Orchestrator in VCF Automation: Workflows for Extensibility (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 17)
How VCF Operations Orchestrator (ex-vRO) plugs into VCF Automation 9 for extensibility: instance models, standing up an external Orchestrator, the rights-bundle trap, event subscriptions and when to use ABX instead.
Architect’s Toolkit
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
- AI Infra Sizing & Cost Calculator
- 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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