Last Updated: 30-January-2024 Welcome to Edition #22 of the What's New for VMware Validated Solutions, this is a our first update for 2024 and the team has been busy over the festive period. Highlights include: New Solution – Intelligent Network Visibility for VMware Cloud Foundation Architectural change to Identity …
Read MoreLast 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: New Solution – Cloud-Based Ransomware Recovery for VMware Cloud Foundation Updated branding from …
Read MoreThis 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 …
Read MoreLast 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 – Cross Cloud Mobility for VMware Cloud Foundation Cross Cloud Mobility for VMware Cloud Foundation We are delighted to announce the release of this brand-new …
Read MoreThis 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 …
Read MoreThis 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 …
Read MoreLast 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 – Cloud-Based Workload Protection for VMware Cloud Foundation Added support for VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.2 for all VMware Validated Solutions Enhancements to …
Read MoreLast Updated: 21-Sep-2023 A couple of years ago I wrote a series of blogs (see here) 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 can automate the steps involved in upgrading VMware Cloud Foundation …
Read MoreIn order to upgrade VMware Cloud Foundation you must first download the upgrade bundles, I recently wrote a blog Automating the Download of VCF Bundles for a Release on this topic which I shared a script vcfBundleDownload.ps1 which can be downloaded from GitHub which we will utilize as part of the procedure here. The …
Read MoreIf you have had VMware Cloud Foundation and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager deployed within your infrastructure for some time you may have noticed in the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Password Locker that there are many passwords called VCF-password-< guid >. This is an internal service account used by …
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