VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 Released
VMware has released VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1, this version features some major new features and enhancements. This version has support for the new VMware vSAN ESA and vSAN Max. It is also the backbone of the future VMware Private Generative AI, for now this is only guided for installing the product at the moment, so…
VMware VCF 5.0 Released
VMware has released VCF 5.0. I have been waiting for this for some times as we have customers waiting for this release. This release is build on the latest release of vSphere 8.0 Update 1a, vSAN 8.0 Update 1, NSX 4.1 and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.10 Patch 1. NOTE: It do not support the…
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4.1 Released
VMware has released Cloud Foundation 4.4.1 and Cloud Foundation 4.4.1 on Dell EMC VxRail. This is maintenance release that updates the BOM. At the moment, the download can be a little hard to find, since there are a bug on the VMware download page. NOTE: The download page has been fixed. See the full release…
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4 Released
VMware has released VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4, this is has some major enhancement, changes and security fixes. There are important changes, like ESXi host do not need to have SSH enabled, and flexible vRealize Product Upgrades. What’s new: VMware vRealize Suite updated to 8.6.2 VMware vSphere 7.0.3c Enhanced AI/ML workload support with NVIDIA AI Enterprise…
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3 Released
VMware has VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3 and VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3 on Dell EMC VxRail 4.3. What’s new: Flexibility in Application Virtual Networks (AVN): Application Virtual Networks (AVN)s, which include the NSX Edge Cluster and NSX network segments, are no longer deployed and configured during bring-up. Instead they are implemented as a Day-N operations in SDDC Manager,…
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2 Released
VMware has released Cloud Foundation 4.2. This version contains vRealize Suite to 8.2, NSX-T to 3.1, and updates to other things like vCenter/ESXi/….. What’s new: vSAN HCI Mesh Support: VMware Cloud Foundation supports HCI Mesh on VSAN clusters. This capability allows you to utilize storage from remote vSAN clusters in a local vSAN cluster. NSX-T Federation…
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1.0 Released
VMware has released Cloud Foundation 4.1.0. Note: the BOM does not have the vRealize Suite 8.2 in this version, What’s new: vVols as Principal Storage in Workload Domains: VMware Cloud Foundation now supports vVols as principal storage, providing a common storage management framework for external storage and automation for pre-defined storage, including volume management and…
VMware VCF 4.0.1.1 on VxRail Upgrade Failure
I was upgrading our VCF on VxRail to 4.0.1.1 with my colleague Anders Jacobsen. When Running the upgrade, the first elements, the SDDC Manager and vCenter update went fine, but when we came to the VxRail manager, that needed op upgraded to version 7.0.010-26590399, it failed with a strange error. Error: Unexpected failure during upgrade,…
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.1 Released
VMware has released VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.1 and VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.1 for VxRAil. What’s new: NSX-T cluster-level upgrade support: Users can upgrade specific host clusters within a workload domain so that the upgrade can fit into their maintenance windows. Multi-pNIC/multi-vDS during bring-up: The deployment parameter workbook now provides three vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) profiles…
VMware vSphere with Kubernetes Design
If you want to use VMware vSphere with Kubernetes, you have to buy this as VMware Cloud Foundation and as a minimum standard edition. The reason VMware vSphere with Kubernetes at the moment is only available a VMware Cloud Foundation is that there is a requirement for NSX-T licenses also, so the argument is that,…