VCF

Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time getting our company lab set up and configured with all the bells and whistles that VCF 9 brings to the table. The new SSO experience was something I was really looking forward to. Previously, you had to configure the identity provider for every single product and platform, then add in the permissions and then manage that connection seperately. The new SSO experience, powered by the all new Identity Broker, is supposed to alleviate a lot of that management overhead. ...

When I first installed VCF in the lab, I decided to skip Automation for now so that I could read up on it a bit. Today, I was trying to install it through VCF Operations in the lifecycle tab, but the pre-checks kept failing with a pretty ambiguous error message. When testing DNS resolution, for the record that was mentioned, it resolved fine on my jumphost and laptop. So I figured the issue must be with DNS resolution on the Fleet manager appliance (ex-SDDC manager). I connected to the fleet manager appliance and tested DNS resolution there. ...

Today is the day a lot of people have been looking forward to for a long time. Ever since VMware by Broadcom announced VCF 9 at VMware Explore Las Vegas 2024, people have been wondering what this release would be like. I was one of those people as well. Over the past few weeks, during the beta program, and during a briefing we got through the vExpert program, a lot was made clear. ...