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 …

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 – Cloud-Based Workload Protection for VMware Cloud Foundation Added support for VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.2 for all VMware Validated Solutions Enhancements to …

Last 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 …

In 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 …

If 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 …

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 ( see here ), the intent being to enable our customers to update the underlying vRealize …

Last Updated: 25-July-2023 Welcome to Edition #18 of the What's New for VMware Validated Solutions, today we announced the following updates: Added support for VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0.0 for the remaining VMware Validated Solutions Added guidance for vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Upgrade to vRealize Suite based …