With the management domain upgraded in Parts 1 to 5, this final part covers the cleanup tasks that round out the upgrade, and then the workload domain. (As always, the series overview has the environment and …
With NSX Manager and vCenter upgraded in Part 4, it’s time for the hosts. Part 5 covers the ESX host upgrade with vLCM image-based remediation, and then completing the NSX upgrade. My management domain …
With the management components handled in Parts 1 to 3, Part 4 moves to the core infrastructure: NSX Manager and vCenter. The series overview has the environment details and prerequisites. Everything here is driven from …
With SDDC Manager and the new VCF Management Services runtime in place after Part 2, Part 3 tackles two more components: VCF Automation and VCF Operations for Logs. These two matter for a reason beyond just version …
In Part 1 I upgraded VCF Operations to 9.1, watched the old Fleet Management appliance decommission itself, and let the Cloud Proxy auto-upgrade along the way. With the operations layer on 9.1, next up is SDDC Manager …
This is Part 1 of my VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.2 to 9.1 upgrade series. The series overview covers my lab environment, what’s changing in 9.1, the prerequisites that gate the whole upgrade, and a cert and …
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 dropped on May 12th, and since most of my focus these days lives squarely in the VCF world, I figured there’s no better way to put it through its paces than to upgrade my own lab from …
VCF 9.1.1 has been out since September 3rd, and the 9.1.1.0100 patches for fleet lifecycle and SDDC lifecycle landed on the 21st, so the upgrade guidance has finally settled enough to plan against. Downloading the …
It’s been a minute since my last home lab post, but I’ve been heads-down on something I’m genuinely excited to share. With the release of Veeam Backup & Replication 13 (VBR 13 for short), I took the …
Hello all, and thanks so much for stopping by! First off, let me start by apologizing for being quiet for a bit…I took some time to focus on a brand new project here on the blog, and I’m excited to finally …
Intro Welcome back! I know it’s been some time since my last post where I covered the deployment of the nested vSphere lab, but I’d like to take a moment to thank you for coming back and supporting me! Life …
Intro Welcome back! In my previous post, I covered the deployment and configuration of an Active Directory and Microsoft Certificate Authority server(s) for the nested lab environment. Next, I will cover the steps used …