Tag: VCF
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The VCF Automation API and Token Authentication: Provider, Tenant and the Org-Type Trap (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 20)
Two tokens, three API planes and an org-type trap: how provider and tenant authentication actually works in the VCF Automation 9 API, with real curl for every flow.
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Event Broker Subscriptions in VCF Automation: Blocking, Conditions and Extensibility Patterns (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 19)
Subscriptions are the wiring that connects deployment events to your ABX actions and Orchestrator workflows. Here is how blocking and non-blocking topics behave, why every subscription needs a condition, and the patterns that keep extensibility from wedging your deployments.
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ABX Actions in VCF Automation: Action Based Extensibility and When to Use It (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 18)
ABX gives you short, polyglot FaaS scripts that fire on deployment events in VCF Automation 9. Here is how an action is built, where it runs and what it costs, and the honest verdict on ABX versus VCF Operations Orchestrator.
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VCF Operations Orchestrator in VCF Automation: Workflows for Extensibility (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 17)
How VCF Operations Orchestrator (ex-vRO) plugs into VCF Automation 9 for extensibility: instance models, standing up an external Orchestrator, the rights-bundle trap, event subscriptions and when to use ABX instead.
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Approval, Lease and Day-2 Policies in VCF Automation: Governing the Catalog (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 16)
A self-service catalog without policies is unsupervised spending. Here is how approval, lease and day-2 action policies work in VCF Automation 9, how they combine when several match, and the one missing policy that fills your cluster with zombie VMs.
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Custom Forms and Request Customization in VCF Automation (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 15)
How to build catalog request forms in Automation Service Broker for VCF Automation: value sources, external-value Orchestrator actions, field and external validation, and the design mistakes that leave forms half-populated.
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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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Writing VMware Cloud Templates in VCF Automation: Inputs, Resources and the YAML (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 12)
A VMware Cloud Template is a few dozen lines of YAML that become a running, networked, governed deployment. The structure, inputs that build the form, resources, and the canvas-plus-code workflow.
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Flavor Mappings, Image Mappings and Network and Storage Profiles in VCF Automation (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 11)
Mappings and profiles are the translation layer that makes one template deploy in any region. Flavor and image mappings, network profiles, storage, and the naming contract that ties them together.
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Cloud Zones, Regions and Placement in VCF Automation (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 10)
A cloud zone is where deploy a VM becomes this VM on that cluster. Regions and zones, the many-to-many with projects, placement policies, and capability and compute tags that steer where work lands.
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Cloud Accounts in VCF Automation: Connecting vCenter and NSX (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 9)
A cloud account is the credential that lets VCF Automation collect inventory and deploy. Adding vCenter and NSX accounts, the VCF account and SDDC Manager, and the NSX manager-mode removal in 9.0.
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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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