Tag: SDDC Manager
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VCF 9 Troubleshooting: The Stuck Workflows, Locks and Log Trails That Actually Bite (VCF 9 Series, Part 34)
A field guide to VCF 9 troubleshooting: clearing stuck SDDC Manager workflows, releasing the password and certificate system lock, pulling SoS support bundles, and reading the logs that actually tell you what failed.
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How to Upgrade VMware Cloud Foundation to 9.1: The Full-Stack Runbook (VCF 9 Series, Part 23)
VCF Operations now drives lifecycle, so the 9.1 upgrade starts there, not at SDDC Manager. Here is the full-stack sequence, the new Management Services CIDR and License Appliance prep, and the three failures that bite.
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VCF 9 Cutover and Decommission: The Teardown Failures That Actually Bite (VCF 9 Series, Part 18)
Cutting over to VCF 9 and tearing down the old environment? Here are the decommission failures that bite at workload domain delete, host removal, NSX edge and vSAN evacuation, and how to recover.
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Migrating Older VCF to VCF 9: 7 Things That Bite You in the Upgrade (VCF 9 Series, Part 15)
Upgrading an older VCF environment to 9.0 is mostly smooth, until it is not. Here are seven things that bite real migrations, from the 5.2.x floor and the vLCM image requirement to the identity and logging components that have no upgrade path at all.
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VCF 9 Management Domain Bring-Up with the VCF Installer (VCF 9 Series, Part 8)
A step-by-step VCF 9 management domain bring-up with the VCF Installer: depot setup, the live-validated wizard, what gets deployed, and the DNS sweep that prevents most failures.
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Explained: The Unified Private Cloud Platform (VCF 9 Series, Part 1)
VCF 9 is not VCF 5.x with a new logo. The operate and consume layers moved into the core, Aria became VCF Operations and Automation, and the fleet is the new top-level construct. Here is what actually changed and why it matters.
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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