Tag: VCF Automation
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VCF Automation Licensing: What the VCF Subscription Includes and What It Does Not (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 5)
There is no separate VCF Automation license, it is bundled into the VCF per-core subscription. What that means, the VVF trap, how core counting works, and what still costs extra.
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Deploying and Enabling VCF Automation via Fleet Management (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 4)
VCF Automation is not installed, it is enabled as a fleet component. The prerequisites, the appliance inputs that trip people up, and what to do the moment it comes up.
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VM Apps vs All Apps Organizations in VCF Automation: Which Model to Choose (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 3)
VM Apps and All Apps are not two skins on one engine, they are two architectures. The differences, a decision tree, and a clear verdict on which organization type to choose.
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VCF Automation 9 Architecture: Assembler, Service Broker, Orchestrator and How a Request Becomes a Deployment (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 2)
The architecture of VCF Automation 9: the three services, the deployment engine between them, how a catalog request turns into a running workload, and where extensibility hooks in.
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What VCF Automation Is: The Product Formerly Known as vRealize Automation, in VCF 9 (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 1)
VCF Automation is vRealize Automation’s lineage on VCF’s architecture. What it is, the three services you work in, the provider/tenant/project model, and the VM Apps vs All Apps fork.
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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.
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VCF 9 Multi-Instance Fleet Management Explained: One Operations Plane, Many Instances (VCF 9 Series, Part 31)
What a VCF 9 fleet really is, how one VCF Operations and VCF Automation plane governs many VCF instances, how to size it by objects and metrics rather than host counts, and when to split into more than one fleet.
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VCF Automation in VCF 9 Explained: Provider, Organizations and Self-Service Cloud (VCF 9 Series, Part 25)
VCF Automation is not just Aria Automation with a new badge. Here is how the provider model, organizations, projects and built-in cloud services work in VCF 9, and the All Apps vs VM Apps decision you need to get right.
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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