<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>VCenter on iThinkVirtual™</title><link>https://ithinkvirtual.com/tags/vcenter/</link><description>Recent content in VCenter on iThinkVirtual™</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:00:00 -0400</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ithinkvirtual.com/tags/vcenter/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 Upgrade - Part 4: NSX and vCenter</title><link>https://ithinkvirtual.com/posts/vcf-9-1-upgrade-part-4-nsx-vcenter/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://ithinkvirtual.com/posts/vcf-9-1-upgrade-part-4-nsx-vcenter/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;With the management components handled in Parts &lt;a href="https://ithinkvirtual.com/posts/vcf-9-1-upgrade-part-1-vcf-operations/"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="https://ithinkvirtual.com/posts/vcf-9-1-upgrade-part-3-automation-logs/"&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;, Part 4 moves to the core infrastructure: &lt;strong&gt;NSX Manager&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;vCenter&lt;/strong&gt;. The &lt;a href="https://ithinkvirtual.com/posts/vcf-9-1-upgrade-series-overview/"&gt;series overview&lt;/a&gt; has the environment details and prerequisites.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Everything here is driven from the VCF Operations Lifecycle UI, the same place I&amp;rsquo;ve worked since &lt;a href="https://ithinkvirtual.com/posts/vcf-9-1-upgrade-part-2-sddc-manager-management-services/"&gt;Part 2&lt;/a&gt;. Broadcom&amp;rsquo;s flow is to plan the domain upgrade, run the prechecks, then work through the sequence one component at a time, NSX Manager first and then vCenter (&lt;a href="https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vcf/vcf-9-0-and-later/9-1/deployment/upgrading-cloud-foundation/upgrade-the-management-domain-to-vmware-cloud-foundation-5-2/updating-vcenter-and-nsx.html"&gt;Upgrading vCenter and NSX Manager&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>