By default when VMware Cloud Foundation is deployed, SDDC Manager and NSX-T Data Center are configured to use an SFTP service running locally on the SDDC Manager Appliance. For production environments its critical that this is changed before going live to ensure that you have the ability to recover in the event of a …

Background For those of you who are not familiar with VMware Cloud Builder its a virtual appliance that is shipped as part of VMware Cloud Foundation. It's primary goal is to bootstrap the deployment and configuration of the Management Domain which includes ESXi, vCenter Server, NSX-T Data Center and SDDC Manager. …

On February 9th VMware released VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2, and with it a number of new security enhancements, one of which means that each ESXi host used for either a Management Domain or Workload Domain now requires the self-signed certificate for the ESXi host to have its common name matching the real FQDN assigned …

For those that follow my blog posts you will be aware that I’m involved with the development of PowerVCF a collection of PowerShell cmdlets created to expose the Public APIs of VMware Cloud Foundation. Whilst working on PowerVCF v2.0 I started to take a look at the Public APIs for VMware Cloud Builder, I’ve been …

VMware Cloud Builder supports both VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Validated Design deployments each of which have their own version numbers. VMware Cloud Builder also has its own version and build number and as we release new versions keeping track of which version supports which VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware …

In order to implement a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) there are many VMware components that get implemented along with a number of prerequisite requirements. Some of the prerequisites we have full control over but many fall within the responsibility of the end customer. As a result in order to ensure the …

At VMworld 2019 in the US this year I was lucky enough to be able to present the breakout session HBI1259BU - Accelerate VMware Cloud Foundation with VMware Cloud Builder (don't worry if you were not able to attend and will be going to VMworld Europe in Barcelona in November I will be presenting again), during which a …

The question concerning what versions of VMware Validated Design are supported on what versions of VxRail has come up a number of times over the last couple of weeks, as a result we have had a new VMware Support KB article created to track. And for those that were not aware a similar VMware Support KB article already …

VMware Cloud Builder - Logging and Log Collection VMware Cloud Builder is used to automate the deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Validated Designs, during the initial bringup phase both solutions use the same components of the VMware Cloud Builder appliance: JsonGenerator - used to take the Excel file …

Back in January VMware released VMware Cloud Builder v1.0, today March 19th VMware Cloud Builder v2.0 went GA, this is just a quick write up on the main What's New items for this release. If you didn't see my initial blog article on VMware Cloud Builder v1.0 you can find it here . What's New Supports for VMware Cloud …