VCF Automation: Understanding the Difference Between All-Apps and VM-Apps
Automation in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) plays a central role in enabling consistent, repeatable infrastructure and application deployments. As environments evolve toward more modern application architectures, VMware has introduced different automation models to support both traditional virtual machine workloads and modern application stacks. Two key deployment models in VCF Automation are All-Apps and VM-Apps. Understanding…
VMware Holodeck 9.0.2
If you want to play around with VMware Cloud Foundation, the perfect place is to use Holodeck. Note: This requires a subscription to use this, the Holodeck is free, but the binaries, that is used for the deployment of VCF requires a download token that has permissions to download VCF binaries. This is a complete…
VMware VCF and changing DNS server
I was trying to change DNS servers in an VMware Cloud Foundation environment, but I ran into some problems. The first problem was that the customer already had removed access to the old DNS server, so the SDDC Manager could not talk to the vCenter. I tried to make the change in the OVF properties…
VMware VCF and Holodeck 2.0
VMware has a way you deploy a full VCF environment on a single host as nested environment, the current version deploys a VCF 5.0 enviroment. I was playing around with this and after deploying this I was doing as I would normally do, I shutdown the Cloud Builder VM after this, the environment did not…