Tag: Self-Service
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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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Managing Deployments and Consumer Day-2 in VCF Automation (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 38)
The Deployments page is where self-service actually lives day to day: cards vs list views, the day-2 action set, the lease trap that powers VMs off, utilization insights, and how to drive it all from the API.
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Publishing Catalog Items with Automation Service Broker in VCF Automation (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 14)
Importing a content source does not publish anything. Here is the real Automation Service Broker pipeline in VCF Automation 9: release a template version, add the content source, then share it to a project with a content sharing policy, by UI and by API.
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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.
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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