Tag: VCF 9 Series
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VCF 9 Reference Architecture: Sizing, Topology and Design Trade-offs (VCF 9 Series, Part 7)
How to lay out VMware Cloud Foundation 9 for production: fleet and instance topology, management and workload domain sizing, appliance models, and the design trade-offs that matter.
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VCF 9 Storage Design: 6 vSAN ESA Pitfalls That Wreck Capacity and Performance (VCF 9 Series, Part 6)
vSAN ESA is the default storage layer in VMware Cloud Foundation 9, and most storage problems trace back to design decisions made before the first host is racked. Here are six pitfalls that quietly wreck capacity and performance, with the fix for each.
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VCF 9 Planning and Prerequisites: Sizing, Networking and the Readiness Checklist (VCF 9 Series, Part 4)
A practical planning guide for VMware Cloud Foundation 9: deployment pathways, management domain sizing, network and DNS prerequisites, and a ready-to-use pre-deployment checklist.
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VCF 9 Licensing Explained: Core Counting, the vSAN TiB Entitlement and 5 Costly Mistakes (VCF 9 Series, Part 3)
Part 3 of the VCF 9 Series: how VMware Cloud Foundation 9 licensing really works, from the per-core subscription and 16-core minimum to the vSAN TiB entitlement, VCF vs VVF, and the five mistakes that quietly inflate your bill.
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5 Things That Block vSphere Supervisor Enablement in VCF 9 (and How to Fix Each)
Workload Management says your cluster is ‘incompatible,’ or the Supervisor control plane VMs hang at Configuring. Here are the five most common reasons vSphere Supervisor enablement fails in VCF 9 — and the exact checks and commands to fix each.
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Architecture: Fleet, Instances and Domains Explained (VCF 9 Series, Part 2)
Part 2 of the VCF 9 Series: a deep dive into VCF 9 architecture, from the fleet, instance and domain hierarchy to the management and workload domains, plus the design mistakes architects make most.
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Explained: The Unified Private Cloud Platform (VCF 9 Series, Part 1)
Part 1 of the VCF 9 Series: a plain-English overview of what VMware Cloud Foundation 9 is, the components it unifies, and why the shift to one API-first private cloud platform changes how you operate.
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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