The Birth of PowerVCF
Back in January 2020 my friend and colleague
href = "https://lifeofbrianoc.com" target = "_blank" rel = "nofollow noopener noreferrer" > <span> Brian OConnell </span>embarked on a community project to write a PowerShell module to make consumption of the VMware Cloud Foundation APIs …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
Ensuring your VMware Cloud …
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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 …
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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 …
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