[New blog post] How to Replace VCF Automation Certificate fojta.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/h...
How to Replace VCF Automation Certificate
In an Enterprise or Cloud Provider scenario the VCF Automation (VCFA) certificate should be signed by a public Certificate Authority and will need to be rotated yearly. If the VCFA is fronted by an…
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July 30, 2026 at 12:17 PM
[New blog post] How to Replace VCF Automation Certificate fojta.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/h...
[New blog post] How to vMotion VMs Managed by the vSphere Supervisor fojta.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/h...
How to vMotion VMs Managed by the vSphere Supervisor
You might have noticed that vCenter administrator cannot perform vMotion of Supervisor control plane VMs or VMs managed by the VM Service operator. There is a good reason for this as these VMs are …
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July 13, 2026 at 10:24 AM
[New blog post] How to vMotion VMs Managed by the vSphere Supervisor fojta.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/h...
[New blog post] How to Increase Size of the VCF Automation Transfer Share fojta.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/h...
How to Increase Size of the VCF Automation Transfer Share
When uploading VM OVA or ISO images to VCF Automation Content Library via the UI the file is first staged into tenant-manager-transfer-bucket S3 object store and only after it is fully uploaded it …
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July 13, 2026 at 10:23 AM
[New blog post] How to Increase Size of the VCF Automation Transfer Share fojta.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/h...
[New blog post] How to Import VMs into VCF Automation
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Deep dive into mobility operator, VPC VLAN extensions and L2 bridging
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Deep dive into mobility operator, VPC VLAN extensions and L2 bridging
How to Import VMs into VCF Automation
VCF Automation (VCFA) is the new cloud management layer on top of VCF. Which brings the question how can you import legacy VM workloads under VCF Automation management? VCFA provides infrastructure…
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June 19, 2026 at 9:19 AM
[New blog post] How to Import VMs into VCF Automation
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Deep dive into mobility operator, VPC VLAN extensions and L2 bridging
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Deep dive into mobility operator, VPC VLAN extensions and L2 bridging
[New blog post] VCF 9.1 in a Minilab fojta.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/v...
VCF 9.1 in a Minilab
This is follow up to my previous blog post Deploying VCF 9 in a Minilab – I have made some changes in my lab and upgraded to VCF 9.1. My original HW BOM: Two GMKtec K8 Plus mini PCs. One with…
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May 20, 2026 at 2:33 PM
[New blog post] VCF 9.1 in a Minilab fojta.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/v...
[New blog post] How to Assign Specific External IP to a Private VM in VCF Automation fojta.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/h...
How to Assign Specific External IP to a Private VM in VCF Automation
In VCF Automation 9.1 we can assign External IP to a particular VM that is connected to private or transit subnets and access it directly via that IP. This is similar to assigning public floating I…
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May 19, 2026 at 8:58 AM
[New blog post] How to Assign Specific External IP to a Private VM in VCF Automation fojta.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/h...
[New blog post] How to Correctly Delete VCF Services Runtime Cluster fojta.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/h...
How to Correctly Delete VCF Services Runtime Cluster
When you upgrade VCF Automation to version 9.1, new VCF Services Runtime consumption cluster (internally called VMSP = VMware Management Services Platform) is deployed and the old one is left behin…
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May 15, 2026 at 1:33 PM
[New blog post] How to Correctly Delete VCF Services Runtime Cluster fojta.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/h...
[New blog post] Downscaling VCF Automation 9.1 fojta.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/d...
Downscaling VCF Automation 9.1
My VCF homelab runs on GMKTec K8 Plus nodes which have AMD Ryzen CPU with 16 threads – which means the biggest VM that can be powered on can have only 16 vCPUs. However VCF Automation runs on…
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May 13, 2026 at 9:52 PM
[New blog post] Downscaling VCF Automation 9.1 fojta.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/d...
[New blog post] Building Nested Labs in VCF Automation 9.1 fojta.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/b...
Building Nested Labs in VCF Automation 9.1
About two years ago I wrote blog post on how to create self-contained lab in VMware Cloud Director cloud environment with equivalent functionality to physical lab that can be rapidly deployed with …
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May 12, 2026 at 4:26 PM
[New blog post] Building Nested Labs in VCF Automation 9.1 fojta.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/b...
[New blog post] Monitoring VKS Cluster in VCF Automation fojta.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/m...
Monitoring VKS Cluster in VCF Automation
VCF Automation (VCFA) provides very easy way to deploy vSphere Kubernets Service (VKS) Clusters in a multitenant environments. This can be done via UI, Kubernetes API or CLI. This is in my opinion …
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February 3, 2026 at 3:12 PM
[New blog post] Monitoring VKS Cluster in VCF Automation fojta.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/m...
[New blog post] VCF Automation 9.0 Networking Deep Dive fojta.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/v...
VCF Automation 9.0 Networking Deep Dive
When talking to customers that are adopting VCF 9 with VCF Automation I realized there is confusion on how the networking should be set up especially related to the new concepts such as supervisor,…
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December 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
[New blog post] VCF Automation 9.0 Networking Deep Dive fojta.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/v...
[New blog post] VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VCFA 9.0 fojta.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/v...
VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VCFA 9.0
Broadcom announced three new (VMware) software Advanced Certifications (VCAP) and thus still with the VMware brand. The first two of them are already available to schedule: VMware Certified Advance…
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November 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
[New blog post] VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VCFA 9.0 fojta.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/v...
[New blog post] Resizing VCFA 9.0 Namespace fojta.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/r...
Resizing VCFA 9.0 Namespace
In VCF Automation compute and storage resources are consumed by tenant organizations via Namespace construct which tenant creates in a project and assigns to it resources from their regional quota.…
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November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
[New blog post] Resizing VCFA 9.0 Namespace fojta.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/r...
[New blog post] RBAC in a VCF Automation Deploy Shared VKS Cluster fojta.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/r...
RBAC in a VCF Automation Deploy Shared VKS Cluster
In VCF Automation when a project administrator deploys Kubernetes VKS cluster they can download kubeconfig file from the UI or via VCF CLI to deploy applications on the cluster. In this blog post I…
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October 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
[New blog post] RBAC in a VCF Automation Deploy Shared VKS Cluster fojta.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/r...
[New blog post] Quick Demo: VCF Automation Cloud Application Deployment
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Quick Demo: VCF Automation Cloud Application Deployment
To demonstrate how a cloud-first microservice application can be quickly deployed into VCF Automation managed Kubernetes Cluster I will use Online Boutique demo app. This app consists of multiple m…
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September 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
[New blog post] Quick Demo: VCF Automation Cloud Application Deployment
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[New blog post]
How to Restore Missing Default VCF Services UI Plugins in VCF Automation
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How to Restore Missing Default VCF Services UI Plugins in VCF Automation
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How to Restore Missing Default VCF Services UI Plugins in VCF Automation
If you accidently delete VCF Services tiles from VCF Automation, there is an easy way to restore them. For example let’s delete the DSM service tile. Tile is now gone. To restore we need to s…
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September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
[New blog post]
How to Restore Missing Default VCF Services UI Plugins in VCF Automation
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How to Restore Missing Default VCF Services UI Plugins in VCF Automation
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[New blog post]
Deploying Databases in VCF Automation with kubectl
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Deploying Databases in VCF Automation with kubectl
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Deploying Databases in VCF Automation with kubectl
VCF Automation (VCFA) can provide DBaaS when integrated with VMware Data Services Manager (DSM). In version 9.0 it provides deployment and management of PostgreSQL and MySQL databases . However onl…
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September 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
[New blog post]
Deploying Databases in VCF Automation with kubectl
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Deploying Databases in VCF Automation with kubectl
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[New blog post]
Accessing VCF Automation Deployed K8s Cluster with VCF CLI
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Accessing VCF Automation Deployed K8s Cluster with VCF CLI
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Accessing VCF Automation Deployed K8s Cluster with VCF CLI
1. Install VCF CLI: link. Note that I had issues with the Windows version, so I used Ubuntu WSL subsystem instead. 2. Install kubectl: link 3. As end-user log into VCFA console and make sure you ha…
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September 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
[New blog post]
Accessing VCF Automation Deployed K8s Cluster with VCF CLI
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Accessing VCF Automation Deployed K8s Cluster with VCF CLI
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[New blog post] How To Apply License to ESX 9 Host without VCF Operations fojta.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/h...
How To Apply License to ESX 9 Host without VCF Operations
In VMware Cloud Foundation 9 the licensing of individual components (vSphere/ESX/NSX/…) has been simplified and centralized to VMware Cloud Foundation Operations. So you no longer manage indi…
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September 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
[New blog post] How To Apply License to ESX 9 Host without VCF Operations fojta.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/h...
[New blog post] Load Balancing VCF Automation with Avi fojta.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/l...
Load Balancing VCF Automation with Avi
This post describes how to configure Avi Load Balancer in front of of VCF Automation (VCFA) to provide more secure access to the cloud service. Usage of Avi Load Balancer for tenant IaaS services i…
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August 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
[New blog post] Load Balancing VCF Automation with Avi fojta.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/l...
[New blog post] VCF 9 – Importing Brownfield Environment fojta.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/v...
VCF 9 – Importing Brownfield Environment
In my previous blog post I described how you can convert existing brownfield vSphere 8 environment into your first VMware Cloud Foundation 9 instance including Fleet Management. In this article we …
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July 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
[New blog post] VCF 9 – Importing Brownfield Environment fojta.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/v...
[New blog post] VCF 9 – Converting Brownfield Deployment fojta.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/v...
VCF 9 – Converting Brownfield Deployment
One of the ways how to start using VMware Cloud Foundation 9 is to convert existing vSphere environment. Let’s have a look what is the process. VCF Fleet VCF consists of a Fleet Management wi…
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July 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
[New blog post] VCF 9 – Converting Brownfield Deployment fojta.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/v...
[New blog post] VCF Automation – How to Create Provider Managed Blueprint fojta.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/v...
VCF Automation – How to Create Provider Managed Blueprint
Content Hub in VCF Automation provides access to Content Libraries which store VM templates (OVA) and media (ISO), VM images (OVA templates), custom Orchestrator workflows and Blueprints. Blueprint…
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June 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
[New blog post] VCF Automation – How to Create Provider Managed Blueprint fojta.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/v...
Deploying VCF 9 in a Minilab fojta.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/d...
Deploying VCF 9 in a Minilab
Recently released VCF 9 combines vSphere 9, NSX 9, new Lifecycle and Operational tooling via VCF Operations, Fleet Management and Logs and with brand new fully multitenant cloud management platform…
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June 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Deploying VCF 9 in a Minilab fojta.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/d...
Quck Guide to VCF Automation for VCD Administrators
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Quck Guide to VCF Automation for VCD Administrators
VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) has been released and with it comes brand new Cloud Management Platform – VCF Automation (VCFA) which supercedes both Aria Automation and VMware Cloud Direct…
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June 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Quck Guide to VCF Automation for VCD Administrators
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