Last Updated: 07-November-2023

Welcome to Edition #21 of the What's New for VMware Validated Solutions, slightly delayed due to the availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 but today we announced the following updates:

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This is the final part of my blog series in which I talk about automating the VMware Cloud Foundation upgrade process. At this point you should have completed the following tasks:

• Downloaded All Bundles
• Initial Health Check
• SDDC Manager Upgrade
• SDDC Manager Configuration Drift Update

We are now ready to begin the …

Last Updated: 26-September-2023

Welcome to Edition #20 of the What's New for VMware Validated Solutions, today we announced the following updates:

• New Solution – href = "https://core.vmware.com/cross-cloud-mobility-vmware-cloud-foundation" target = "_blank" rel = "nofollow noopener noreferrer" > …</li></ul>
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This is part three of a four part blog series in which I talk about automating the VMware Cloud Foundation upgrade process. If you have been following the series so far then you will have your bundles downloaded, and performed various health checks to confirm that all is well and will now be ready to start the upgrade …

This is part two of a four part blog series in which I talk about automating the VMware Cloud Foundation upgrade process. In part one we discussed downloading the bundles to SDDC Manager to prepare the system for the upgrade process, in this post we discuss performing the upgrade pre-checks.

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Last Updated: 29-August-2023

Welcome to Edition #19 of the What's New for VMware Validated Solutions, today we announced the following updates:

• New Solution – href = "https://core.vmware.com/cloud-based-workload-protection-vmware-cloud-foundation" target = "_blank" rel = "nofollow noopener …</li></ul>
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Last Updated: 21-Sep-2023

A couple of years ago I wrote a series of blogs ( href = "/archive/2020/powervcf-automation" > <span> see here </span>

) which discussed the process of automating the deployment procedures of VMware Cloud Foundation using the Public APIs, in this new series we will take a look at how we …

In order to upgrade VMware Cloud Foundation you must first download the upgrade bundles, I recently wrote a blog href = "/post/vcf/vcf-bundle-download" > <span> Automating the Download of VCF Bundles for a Release </span>

on this topic which I shared a script vcfBundleDownload.ps1 which can be downloaded from …

VMware Cloud Foundation has come a long way in recent years, one of the biggest developments introduced a few releases back centred around the relaxation of a strict Bill of Materials (BoM) as it pertained to the vRealize Suite ( href = "/archive/2022/vcf-vrealize-flexibility" > <span> see here </span>

), the …