Last Updated: 13-Jun-2024 Background When we started on the VMware Validated Solution journey nearly three years ago, one of the main criteria we agreed on was to provide our customers with an automated way to deploy and configure whatever was defined within a solution. During the process we also did some analysis on …

Last Updated: 28-May-2024 Welcome to Edition #24 of the What's New for VMware Validated Solutions, this is the update for May 2024, the highlights of which are: New Solution – Private AI Ready Infrastructure for VMware Cloud Foundation Added Support for VxRail to Health Reporting and Monitoring for VMware Cloud …

The Birth of PowerVCF Back in January 2020 my friend and colleague Brian OConnell embarked on a community project to write a PowerShell module to make consumption of the VMware Cloud Foundation APIs simple and easy to consume by VI Admins, each cmdlet was hand-built using standard PowerShell verbs that the community is …

Last Updated: 26-March-2024 Welcome to Edition #23 of the What's New for VMware Validated Solutions, this is the update for March 2024, the highlights of which are: Added support for VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1.1 for all VMware Validated Solutions Update to password management for the latest Photon OS Various …

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 …

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: New Solution – Cloud-Based Ransomware Recovery for VMware Cloud Foundation Updated branding from …

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 – 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 …

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. Ensuring your VMware Cloud …