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 …

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: 21-Sep-2023

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 …

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 …

If you have ever wanted to remove the vRealize Log Insight from VMware Cloud Foundation you may have skipped the step to uninstall the vRealize Log Insight Linux Agent from SDDC Manager, whilst the process is documented in the VMware documentation for vRealize Log Insight under href = …</p>
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Background

In January 2023 through the VMware Validated Solution programme we released both documentation and PowerShell cmdlets to help with the configuration of password policies across the VMware Cloud Foundation platform, enabling our customers to report and configure the password expiration, password complexity, …

It's been a while since the last update but I'm pleased to announce the general availability of PowerVCF v2.3.0 for download from the Microsoft PowerShell Library. PowerVCF is a open source project and the team works on adding support when time permits.

Download It Here: href = …</p>
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This week we released a new VMware Fling, href = "https://flings.vmware.com/vmware-cloud-foundation-configuration-file-generator" target = "_blank" rel = "nofollow noopener noreferrer" > <span> VMware Cloud Foundation Configuration File Generator </span>

which is a containerized web application developed …