VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

VCF Operations 9.1.1 Log Visibility Only | While writing the previous blog regarding Logs Data Sets another idea came to me, what if I wanted to provide visibility into just Logs via the VCF Operations 9.1.1 UI and nothing else, how would I do that? Here’s how! – #vExpert Brock Peterson

VCF Operations 9.1.1 Log Visibility Only

While writing the previous blog regarding Logs Data Sets another idea came to me, what if I wanted to provide visibility into just Logs via the VCF Operations 9.1.1 UI and nothing else, how would I do that? Here’s how!

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Upgrading VCF Real-Time Metrics Store to 9.1.1 Step by Step | A step-by-step walkthrough of upgrading the VCF Real-Time Metrics Store from 9.1.0.0200 to 9.1.1 through VCF Operations, including prechecks, workflow monitoring, and validation. – #vExpert Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VCF Real-Time Metrics Store to 9.1.1…

A step-by-step walkthrough of upgrading the VCF Real-Time Metrics Store from 9.1.0.0200 to 9.1.1 through VCF Operations, including prechecks, workflow monitoring, and validation.

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Upgrading VCF Log Management to 9.1.1 Step by Step | A step-by-step walkthrough of upgrading VCF Log Management from 9.1.0.0400 to 9.1.1 through VCF Operations, including backups, prechecks, workflow monitoring, and validation. – #vExpert Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VCF Log Management to 9.1.1 Step by Step

A step-by-step walkthrough of upgrading VCF Log Management from 9.1.0.0400 to 9.1.1 through VCF Operations, including backups, prechecks, workflow monitoring, and validation.

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VCF Operations Metric Picker – #vExpert Brock Peterson

VCF Operations Metric Picker

I was pulling ESX Host metric values from the VCF Operations API this morning and wrote a script to get just what I wanted, basically just curl commands against the REST API surface. As I finished I thought, this could be much more robust and cool if it had a GUI option. Here’s what I came up with!

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Tenant Connectivity on VCF 9.1: Serving the Data Center, Shared Services and the Internet from One Gateway (Part 5)

Tenant Connectivity on VCF 9.1: Serving the…

This article is part of a six-part series on tenant external connectivity for cloud providers running VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: This part builds the third steady-state design, which combines the previous ones. The tenant is Riyadh: workloads on all three subnet types, Public, Private-TGW and [..]

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VCF High Availability, Explained as a Human Body | Which VCF components come as a pair and which do not, why a cluster is three nodes when a body gets by with two kidneys, and what vSphere HA is really doing underneath all of it. – #vExpert Arun Nukula

VCF High Availability, Explained as a Human…

Which VCF components come as a pair and which do not, why a cluster is three nodes when a body gets by with two kidneys, and what vSphere HA is really doing underneath all of it.

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Major Enhancements to VCF 9.1 Upgrade Planner Tool | William Lam

Major Enhancements to VCF 9.1 Upgrade Planner Tool

The VCF Upgrade Planner was launched back in May and the reception and feedback from our users has been incredible. With over 90,000 visits in just a few months, it has quickly become an essential resource for helping customers and partners create a custom-tailored runbook for their specific […]

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Setting up an AVI cluster for the VI Workload Domain on VCF 9.1 – #vExpert Anuj Jain

Setting up an AVI cluster for the VI Workload…

Setting up an AVI cluster in the VI Workload Domain on VCF 9.1 This blog continues the blog “https://vxlearners.com/2026/07/12/2037/”. In that blog, we saw how to deploy AVI controllers using SDDC Manager. However, in version 9.1, this functionality moved from SDDC Manager to VCF Operations. […]

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Heading to VCF 9? Move vSphere Replication to Protection and Recovery – Gustavo Novello

Heading to VCF 9? Move vSphere Replication to…

Move standalone vSphere Replication to VCF Protection and Recovery 9.1 while still on vSphere 8.0 U3: prerequisites, Enhanced Replication and convergence.

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Applying VCF 9.1.1 Express Patch 2 to your VCF Management Services – #vExpert Brock Peterson

Applying VCF 9.1.1 Express Patch 2 to your VCF…

We recently released VCF 9.1.1 Express Patch 2, Release Notes can be found here. For a review of VCF Express Patches check out William Lam’s blog on the topic here. There is a nice KB available here as well, which details VCF versioning. […]

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Streamline Your VMware Cloud Foundation Upgrades: What’s New in the VCF 9.1 Planner Tool

Streamline Your VMware Cloud Foundation…

Upgrading a full-stack private cloud environment is no small feat. For VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) administrators, aligning component compatibility, sequencing updates, and minimizing downtime can feel like solving a moving puzzle. Fortunately, the VCF Upgrade Planner, launched earlier this […]

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New Whitepaper: Architecting a Governed, Multi-Tenant Private AI Cloud with VCF 9

New Whitepaper: Architecting a Governed,…

Multi-Tenancy Is the Engine of the Modern Private AI Cloud The private cloud is undergoing a profound transformation. Today’s enterprise IT organizations are tasked with supporting diverse, resource-intensive workloads, spanning AI, Kubernetes / containers, and virtual machines, on shared […]

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VMSA-2026-0008.1: Critical Brotli RCE in SDDC Manager and how to mitigate it – #vExpert Piotr Tarnawski

VMSA-2026-0008.1: Critical Brotli RCE in SDDC…

If you run VMware Cloud Foundation, check your SDDC Manager version and get the appropriate workaround into your change process. Broadcom’s VMSA-2026-0008.1 addresses CVE-2026-111497, a remote code execution vulnerability in the Node.js Brotli decoder used by SDDC Manager.

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What stood out at #VMwareExplore 2026?

From AI-assisted operations and NVMe memory tiering to performance and security innovations, Virtualization Review’s Tom Fenton shares his key takeaways.

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VCF AI Assistants, Gated Lab Licenses and a New…

Tom Fenton recaps VMware Explore 2026, including VCF 9.1 updates, AI operations, TrueSource, customer deployments, certification changes, and the conference’s new Las Vegas venue for 2027.

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Why vSAN ESA Only Supports NVMe Solid State Storage Devices

Why vSAN ESA Only Supports NVMe Solid State…

Why can’t spinning disks be used with vSAN ESA? The recent hardware shortages with servers and storage have encouraged customers to look at every conceivable way to lower costs, and this question occasionally comes up in that effort. Some customers contend that their application demands […]

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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.

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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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