Tag: VCF Operations
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Observability for VKS: Metrics, Logs and VCF Operations (VKS Series, Part 11)
Kubernetes-only tooling is blind below the node. Here is how metrics, logs and VCF Operations fit together so you can tell the app from the cluster from the infrastructure.
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GPU Monitoring with VCF Operations for VMware Private AI: The Signals That Actually Catch a Failing Workload (Private AI Series, Part 17)
VCF Operations gives you GPU dashboards out of the box, but the metric most teams trust is the one that lies. Here is what to watch on a Private AI Foundation estate, why GPU utilization misleads, and the hardware-health signals the default dashboards never surface.
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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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VCF 9 Hybrid Cloud Architecture: Extending the Private Cloud to the Hyperscalers (VCF 9 Series, Part 33)
A reference design for VCF 9 hybrid cloud: how the transit gateway, VPN, HCX and VCF Operations stitch your on-prem instance to Azure VMware Solution, GCVE and OCVS, and the version-skew and egress traps that catch teams in production.
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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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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 Certificate, Identity and Backup Failures and How to Fix Them (VCF 9 Series, Part 22)
Certificates, identity and backup all moved in VCF 9. Here are the failures that actually bite in production, with the symptom, the real cause and the fix for each.
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VCF 9 Fleet Lifecycle Management: The Reference Architecture (VCF 9 Series, Part 21)
SDDC Manager is gone. Here is how VCF 9 fleet lifecycle management actually works: the VCF Operations control plane, the software depot, the upgrade sequence, and the design gotchas that catch teams on their first cycle.
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VCF 9 Operations Capacity and Cost Management: A Practical Runbook (VCF 9 Series, Part 20)
A hands-on runbook for capacity planning, rightsizing, reclamation and cost reporting in VCF 9 Operations, including the model and policy choices that decide whether the recommendations are worth trusting.
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VCF Operations in VCF 9: Monitoring and Observability Explained (VCF 9 Series, Part 19)
A field guide to VCF Operations in VCF 9: what replaced the Aria suite, the architecture you actually deploy, and the observability gotchas that bite during the move.
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How to Migrate Workloads into VCF 9 with HCX and vMotion (VCF 9 Series, Part 16)
A field runbook for moving production VMs onto a VCF 9 workload domain with VCF Operations HCX 9.0: when to use vMotion, Bulk Migration or RAV, how to plan migration waves, and the gotchas that derail cutover.
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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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VMware Cloud Foundation
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- NVIDIA Build (Model Catalog)
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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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