VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Eleven Management Packs in One Day: What VCF Operations Just Became | Eleven at once is unusual. Management packs normally trickle out on their own schedules. A simultaneous release of that size usually means something changed underneath them all, and in this case something did. – #vExpert Mohammad “Sarge” Siddiqui

Eleven Management Packs in One Day: What VCF…

On 3 September 2026, the same day VCF 9.1.1.0 shipped, eleven VCF Management Packs reached general availability at version 9.1.1.0. Eleven at once is unusual. Management packs normally trickle out on their own schedules. A simultaneous release of that size usually means something changed […]

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VCF Logs Harvester Part 2 – #vExpert Brock Peterson

VCF Logs Harvester Part 2

The previous blog detailed harvesting log events from VCF Operations for Logs via the VCF Logs Harvester tool. That first release was command line only, but a teammate of mine (Scott Bowe) suggested a GUI for those that are more visually included, so here you go. All the details are in […]

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VCF Operations for Logs Harvester – #vExpert Brock Peterson

VCF Operations for Logs Harvester

There are times I wanted to search log events in VCF Operations for Logs by shortname/FQDN, even though the log events contained only IPs, here’s what I did. All testing and screenshots in this blog are against VCF Operations for Logs 9.0.2 or lower.I extracted log events via the /api/v2/events [..]

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Automate Inventory of vSphere Supervisor Clusters & vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) Guest Clusters

Automate Inventory of vSphere Supervisor…

As customers begin planning their upgrade to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, vSphere Supervisor and vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) have been coming up more frequently in upgrade discussions. Before you can determine the applicable upgrade path, it is important to understand what has […]

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VMware License Hub 2.0 is here! Learn how to secure the components used in this new mandatory license management methodology.

VMware vDefend 9.1 for VMware Cloud Foundation \\\(VCF\\\) private cloud and VMware Avi 32.1.1 have introduced a new licensing management methodology, with digitally signed license subscription files. This method is now mandatory for proper endpoint licensing and trust onboarding for VMware vDefend and VMware Avi Load Balancer.

Read the guide to learn more.

Security Hardening for License Hub 2x for…

VMware vDefend 9.1 for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud and VMware Avi 32.1.1 introduces a new licensing management methodology, replacing the 25-character license keys with digitally-signed license subscription files. This method is now mandatory for proper endpoint licensing and […]

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VCF Management Services Models, Explained | #vExpert Arun Nukula

VCF Management Services Models, Explained |…

Deploying a VCF instance asks you two questions about management services: which components run here, and how is the cluster built. The documentation answers both in two tables and two diagrams. Here is the same thing as a story.

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VPC packet flow in VCF 9.1- all in one drawn out – #vExpert Maciej Losek, vconfig.pl

VPC packet flow in VCF 9.1- all in one drawn…

Every time I explain VPCs in VCF 9.1, someone asks the same thing: ‘where does the packet actually go?’ So I drew it out, from the VCF Automation namespace all the way down to the vmnic and the ToR. There may already be plenty of posts like this, but I decided to put everything together […]

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Native Object Storage Use-Cases – Cormac Hogan

Native Object Storage Use-Cases

While there are many use-cases for object storage, I wanted to create a short post to highlight some of the use-cases that I have been trying out in my own lab. Two of the use cases are for backup and logs, and another is as an S3 Foreign Data Wrapper (FDW) for Greenplum databases. In the first [..]

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Upgrading VCF Operations for Networks to 9.1.1 Step by Step | A step-by-step walkthrough of upgrading VCF Operations for Networks from 9.1.0.0200 to 9.1.1 through VCF Operations, including backups, prechecks, workflow monitoring, and version verification. – #vExpert Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VCF Operations for Networks to 9.1.1…

A step-by-step walkthrough of upgrading VCF Operations for Networks from 9.1.0.0200 to 9.1.1 through VCF Operations, including backups, prechecks, workflow monitoring, and version verification.

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VxVerify: “DO host queries failed” | VxVerify fails with “DO host queries failed” on VxRail 8.0.x? The cause was the wrong Python interpreter. Run the 4.x build with python 3.11. – #vExpert H. Cemre Günay, irgNET

VxVerify: “DO host queries failed” – irgNET

VxVerify fails with “DO host queries failed” on VxRail 8.0.x? The cause was the wrong Python interpreter. Run the 4.x build with python 3.11.

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VMSP Toolkit 3.0.1 for VCF 9.1: Rollouts, Topology and Infrastructure Checks – #vExpert Tommy Grot

VMSP Toolkit 3.0.1 for VCF 9.1: Rollouts,…

A worker resize on VMSP replaces every worker machine. Each drain along the way can sit for 30 minutes behind a single Postgres pod, and until now the only thing to look at was a package status that reads Progressing from start to finish. VMSP Toolkit 3.0.1 tells you which pod is holding things [..]

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Distributed Malware Prevention & Sandboxing for VCF with VMware vDefend. Part 3: ATP Policies and Threat Prevention – #vExpert Harikrishnan T

Distributed Malware Prevention & Sandboxing for…

Welcome back!!! We are at Part 3 and the final chapter of our blog series on Distributed Malware Prevention & Sandboxing for VCF with VMware vDefend. In the previous chapter, we activated the Malware Prevention Service, configured the Sandboxing environment and deployed SVMs for distributed […]

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Upgrading VCF Management Components to 9.1.1 All in One | An all-in-one runbook for patching VCF 9.1.0 management components to 9.1.1 through VCF Operations, with the Broadcom dependency order, prechecks, validation, and known concurrency issue. – #vExpert Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VCF Management Components to 9.1.1…

An all-in-one runbook for patching VCF 9.1.0 management components to 9.1.1 through VCF Operations, with the Broadcom dependency order, prechecks, validation, and known concurrency issue.

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Why Infrastructure Architects Need to Think Like Enterprise Architects – #vExpert Leif Hegdal, VM Infrastructure

Why Infrastructure Architects Need to Think…

Over the course of my career, I’ve spent countless hours discussing servers, storage, virtualization platforms, cloud infrastructure, resiliency, and disaster recovery. Like many infrastructure architects, I built my career around solving technical problems and designing platforms that could […]

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Upgrading the VCF Migration Service Engine to 9.1.1 Step by Step | A step-by-step walkthrough of upgrading the VCF Migration Service Engine, also shown as VCD_MIGRATOR, from 9.1.0.0200 to 9.1.1 through VCF Operations. – #vExpert Cosmin Trif

Upgrading the VCF Migration Service Engine to…

A step-by-step walkthrough of upgrading the VCF Migration Service Engine, also shown as VCD_MIGRATOR, from 9.1.0.0200 to 9.1.1 through VCF Operations.

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Creating a FinOps Dashboard in VMware Cloud Foundation

Creating a FinOps Dashboard in VMware Cloud…

In Part 1 of this series, we established the backend FinOps architecture within VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). By combining Custom Groups, custom metadata (Monthly_Budget), Chargeback metering metrics, and policy-scoped Super Metrics, we built an automated alert engine that fires warning […]

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VCF Operations Log Management 9.1.1 Data Sets – #vExpert Brock Peterson

VCF Operations Log Management 9.1.1 Data Sets

We discussed Operations for Logs Data Sets a few years ago, but it’s changed since then, so let’s take another look.VCF 9.1 changed the Logs architecture significantly. Logs went from being its own Cluster of VMs to a service running on the VCF Management Services Cluster. It no longer has its […]

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Automating Let’s Encrypt Certificates on NSX ALB (AVI) with Cloudflare DNS – #vExpert Tommy Grot

Automating Let’s Encrypt Certificates on NSX…

I run several domains behind VMware Avi Load Balancer (still NSX ALB to a lot of us), and for a while the certificates were a patchwork. A few Cloudflare Origin certificates, a Let’s Encrypt certificate I had renewed by hand, and one that had quietly expired months ago without […]

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vSphere 8 End of Support: One Year to Plan Your Migration – #vExpert Luciano Patrao

vSphere 8 End of Support: One Year to Plan Your…

vSphere 8 support ends 11 October 2027. What stops, what VCF 9 and VVF 9 cost, why leaving takes years, and where a VMware estate can go before the date.

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VCF 9.1.1 – DTGW & VNA: the route controller within me – Part 2 | In this article, I’ll take another look at Route Controller, since additional features were added in VCF 9.1.1. Direct prefix routing and active/active mode are among the new features that have been introduced. – #vExpert Daniel Krieger

VCF 9.1.1 – DTGW & VNA: the route controller…

In this article, I’ll take another look at Route Controller, since additional features were added in VCF 9.1.1. Direct prefix routing and active/active mode are among the new features that have been introduced.

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