Tag: VCF
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Disaster Recovery vs Backup in VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VMware Live Recovery for VCF 9, Part 1)
Backup keeps the data, disaster recovery keeps the service level. What VCF 9 changes for DR, how RPO and RTO drive the design, and a worked bandwidth example.
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An Operations Maturity Model for VCF Operations (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 18)
The four levels of operations maturity for VCF Operations, how to measure where you are, and why you climb in order rather than buying your way to the top.
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Operations Anti-Patterns in VCF Operations (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 17)
The self-inflicted wounds that turn VCF Operations into noise: forward-everything, policy sprawl, defaults as truth, and the cheap fixes for each.
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Build a Day-2 Operations Runbook for VCF Operations (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 16)
A daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly runbook for VCF Operations, tied to real thresholds like the 90 percent disk health check and verified SFTP backups.
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Multi-Cluster and Multi-Site Operations at Scale in VCF Operations (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 15)
Running VCF Operations across many clusters and sites: cloud proxies, collector groups for high availability, sharding the load, and sizing the analytics tier.
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Automate Remediation From Alerts in VCF Operations (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 14)
How to close the loop from alert to action in VCF Operations with orchestrator actions and workflows, what to automate, and the guardrails that keep it safe.
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When Do You Need a Super Metric in VCF Operations? (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 13)
When a super metric earns its place in VCF Operations, how looping functions and dynamic custom groups build self-maintaining rollups, and what they cost.
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Build Custom Dashboards, Views and Reports in VCF Operations (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 12)
How to build custom dashboards, views and reports in VCF Operations that people actually open, and how to prune the ones they do not.
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VCF Operations for Logs in the Day-2 Troubleshooting Workflow (VCF 9 Operations Series, Part 11)
Metrics tell you when a problem started; logs tell you why. How to wire VCF Operations for Logs into your day-2 troubleshooting workflow in VCF 9.
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Troubleshooting a Stalled VCF 9.1 Upgrade and Rolling Back (VCF 9.1 Upgrade Series, Part 14)
How to recover a stalled VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 upgrade: read the failed task, fix the three most common stalls, and understand where a rollback is actually possible.
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VCF 9.1 Post-Upgrade Validation and Health Checks (VCF 9.1 Upgrade Series, Part 13)
How to validate a VCF 9.1 upgrade before you call it done: layered health checks from VCF Operations to vSAN, the SoS health check, and when to remove snapshots.
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Upgrade VCF 9.1 Workload Domains as a Day-N Job (VCF 9.1 Upgrade Series, Part 12)
Workload domains upgrade to VCF 9.1 as an optional Day-N job. The per-domain order of NSX, vCenter and ESX, the new up-to-256-cluster parallelism, shared NSX planning, and the workload traps to plan around.
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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