{"id":177,"date":"2025-07-19T22:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vcdlab.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2025-07-19T23:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T21:09:47","slug":"vmware-cloud-foundation-9-whats-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vcdlab.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"VMware Cloud Foundation 9 &#8211; what&#8217;s new"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week i decided to deploy VCF9 with Holodeck in my lab environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know what is Holodeck.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/vmware.github.io\/Holodeck\/#what-is-holodeck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I deployed a management domain with VCF Operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following appliances are deployed. VCF Automation can be deployed later:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>vCenter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NSX<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SDDC Manager (Deprecated)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VCF Operations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VCF Operations Fleet Management<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VCF Operations Collector<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>VCF Operations is the new &#8220;couteau suisse&#8221; because most of the day to day operations will be done inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techdocs.broadcom.com\/us\/en\/vmware-cis\/vcf\/vcf-9-0-and-later\/9-0\/overview-of-vmware-cloud-foundation-9\/what-is-vmware-cloud-foundation-and-vmware-vsphere-foundation\/vcf-operations-overview\/fleet-management.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fleet management<\/a>. Enables operational consistency and efficient resource management of the&nbsp;VCF&nbsp;infrastructure at scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techdocs.broadcom.com\/us\/en\/vmware-cis\/vcf\/vcf-9-0-and-later\/9-0\/overview-of-vmware-cloud-foundation-9\/what-is-vmware-cloud-foundation-and-vmware-vsphere-foundation\/vcf-operations-overview\/operations-management.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Operations management<\/a>. Provides monitoring and optimization of performance, cost and capacity, and faster troubleshooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techdocs.broadcom.com\/us\/en\/vmware-cis\/vcf\/vcf-9-0-and-later\/9-0\/overview-of-vmware-cloud-foundation-9\/what-is-vmware-cloud-foundation-and-vmware-vsphere-foundation\/vcf-operations-overview\/workload-monitoring-and-observability.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Workload operations<\/a>. Ensures that critical applications are running as expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techdocs.broadcom.com\/us\/en\/vmware-cis\/vcf\/vcf-9-0-and-later\/9-0\/overview-of-vmware-cloud-foundation-9\/what-is-vmware-cloud-foundation-and-vmware-vsphere-foundation\/vcf-operations-overview\/performance-monitoring.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Performance monitoring<\/a>. Ensures applications have continuous access to resources<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techdocs.broadcom.com\/us\/en\/vmware-cis\/vcf\/vcf-9-0-and-later\/9-0\/overview-of-vmware-cloud-foundation-9\/what-is-vmware-cloud-foundation-and-vmware-vsphere-foundation\/vcf-operations-overview\/cost-and-capacity-management.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FinOps and capacity<\/a>. Helps you analyze your infrastructure expenses and optimize capacity usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techdocs.broadcom.com\/us\/en\/vmware-cis\/vcf\/vcf-9-0-and-later\/9-0\/overview-of-vmware-cloud-foundation-9\/what-is-vmware-cloud-foundation-and-vmware-vsphere-foundation\/vcf-operations-overview\/workload-mobility.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Workload mobility<\/a>. Provides support for migrating and interconnecting workloads within and across VCF private cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techdocs.broadcom.com\/us\/en\/vmware-cis\/vcf\/vcf-9-0-and-later\/9-0\/overview-of-vmware-cloud-foundation-9\/what-is-vmware-cloud-foundation-and-vmware-vsphere-foundation\/vcf-operations-overview\/security-and-compliance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Security management<\/a>. Provides security management to ensure that your VCF private cloud is operationally secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s new about the installation of VMware Cloud Foundation 9<br><br>Cloud Builder is replaced by VCF Installer.<br><br>You have to connect your online or offline depot to download the bundles.(Token is mandatory)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then when all needed bundles are downloaded you can select your configuration manually or upload a json file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As it&#8217;s not possible to details all the new features in a single article i will add more details in the next articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week i decided to deploy VCF9 with Holodeck in my lab environment. 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