Tag Archives: VCF
Stretch Management Domain in VCF 5.1.1
In this article, we’ll guide you through the process of stretching a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) management domain across two availability zones, enhancing your infrastructure’s resilience and ensuring continuous availability. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a solid understanding of how to configure and manage a stretched VCF deployment to protect your critical…
Deploy Edge Cluster in a Workload Domain in VCF 5.1.1
Once you have a Management Domain or a VI Workload Domain, you can deploy an Edge cluster from the SDDC Manager. The SDDC Manager will initiate the deployment and configuration of the Edge cluster, resulting in a fully configured and operational Edge cluster in less than an hour, depending on your hardware. Add Edge Cluster…
Deploy VI Workload Domain with vVols in VCF 5.1.1
Once your VCF management domain is fully operational, you may want to set up a VI Workload domain to deploy your workloads. In this article, we will guide you through the process of deploying a VI Workload Domain with vVols in VCF 5.1.1. For our example, we will use Pure Storage to create a vVol…
Deploy VCF 4.0.1 with BGP loopback addresses
For a customer project I needed to deploy VCF 4.0.1 with BGP loopback addresses on a Cisco Fabric (spine leaf setup). As you may already know VCF requires BGP configurations to configure BGP peerings in NSX-T. The VCF design we have is a little different from the blueprint (VVD 6.0.1). Instead of having the BGP…
Build your own VCF 4.0.1 test lab with VLC.
VCF Lab Constructor also known as VLC, is a tool that can automate the deployment of a nested VCF lab. VLC will deploy a VCF environment with minimal resources. A single physical server with 12 cores, 128GB RAM and 800GB SSD is needed to deploy a VCF lab. Using SAS disks instead of SSD disks…