This week i decided to deploy VCF9 with Holodeck in my lab environment.
If you don’t know what is Holodeck.
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I deployed a management domain with VCF Operations.
The following appliances are deployed. VCF Automation can be deployed later:
- vCenter
- NSX
- SDDC Manager (Deprecated)
- VCF Operations
- VCF Operations Fleet Management
- VCF Operations Collector
VCF Operations is the new « couteau suisse » because most of the day to day operations will be done inside.
Fleet management. Enables operational consistency and efficient resource management of the VCF infrastructure at scale.
Operations management. Provides monitoring and optimization of performance, cost and capacity, and faster troubleshooting.
Workload operations. Ensures that critical applications are running as expected.
Performance monitoring. Ensures applications have continuous access to resources
FinOps and capacity. Helps you analyze your infrastructure expenses and optimize capacity usage.
Workload mobility. Provides support for migrating and interconnecting workloads within and across VCF private cloud.
Security management. Provides security management to ensure that your VCF private cloud is operationally secure.
What’s new about the installation of VMware Cloud Foundation 9
Cloud Builder is replaced by VCF Installer.
You have to connect your online or offline depot to download the bundles.(Token is mandatory)
Then when all needed bundles are downloaded you can select your configuration manually or upload a json file.
As it’s not possible to details all the new features in a single article i will add more details in the next articles.