VMware Virtualization, Cloud Management, Security & Automation
SDDC Manager has long been the central credential store for VCF environments, providing a single place to manage, rotate, and schedule password changes across your VCF Fleet managed components. One of its most useful capabilities is automatic password rotation. Once configured, it handles the rotation lifecycle without manual intervention, reducing the risk of stale credentials…
If you are running VCF 9.0 You have probably seen this banner… Broadcom has officially announced its deprecating the SDDC Manager UI in future releases, with Day-N workflows moving to the VCF Operations Console as documented on the Broadcom Tech Docs site. The service itself and its API are not going anywhere. Just the UI….
Designing a global private cloud just got a whole lot more flexible. With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, Broadcom has officially updated the Network Latency thresholds for managing multi-instance fleets, giving architects the freedom to stretch the management plane further than ever before, across continents, without requiring dedicated low-latency fiber. The latest…
In modern virtualised environments, memory often becomes the constraint before CPU does. That problem is more challenging today as memory pricing remains volatile and supply less predictable, driven by AI-focused hardware demand. Expanding DRAM is no longer a simple upgrade decision. It carries real budget, procurement and planning impact. There is also an indirect domino…
I was doing an in-place vCenter upgrade from vCenter 8 to vCenter 9 using the VCSA 9 ISO. Stage 1 (deploying the new appliance) completed fine, but Stage 2 prechecks failed with a generic “internal error” in the installer UI. In this post I’ll show how I troubleshooted and solved it.
Deploying vCenter Server (VCSA) using the CLI installer is fast, repeatable, and ideal for lab environments or scripted deployments. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to deploy a brand new vCenter server using the CLI installer. While this post focuses on CLI deployment from macOS, the process for Linux and Windows is very similar.
The VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.2.1 poster, available here, provides a clean, visual overview of how the platform integrates compute, storage, networking, and security into a unified, automated stack. It highlights key features such as full-stack lifecycle management, flexible storage options, built-in micro segmentation, and the ability to deliver a public cloud–like experience within the…
If you’re using standard vSwitches, keeping port groups consistent across ESXi hosts can be tedious and error-prone. VLANs are easy to replicate, but port group policies like security, NIC teaming, and traffic shaping are often missed. This PowerCLI function lets you clone standard vSwitch port groups from one host to another, including their associated policies….
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