Part 1 covered the management plane. This part moves on to the core components. Tested onEnvironmentNested VCF 9.1.1 labDepotOffline, VCF Download ToolCoversNSX Manager, vCenter, ESX, NSX Edge and finalize, in both …
In the series overview I covered what’s in the October 12th patch set and the caveats to know first. This part patches the management plane. Tested onEnvironmentNested VCF 9.1.1 labDepotOffline, VCF Download …
On October 12th, Broadcom published a new round of patches for VCF 9.1.1 components. This series applies them to the lab I upgraded from 9.0.2 to 9.1.1, in the order the documentation gives, using the upgrade planner …
Before I started the upgrade series, I wrote down five readiness gates I’d want in front of anyone booking a window for a 9.0.x to 9.1.x upgrade. Now that I’ve run the whole thing end to end, here’s …
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 …
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 …