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Deploying VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9.1 in a Lab
Guest post · James Tiffany
When it comes to installing your VVF environment you have two options available. The first, and most common, is to use the VCF Installer. Don't let the name faze you, the same installer that deploys VCF will also deploy VVF for you. The great thing about doing it this way is the level of automation you get, this process will deploy vCenter, VCFMS, VCF Operations and the License server...
Installing and Activating VMware Intelligent Assist in VCF Operations
So last week during VMware Explore in Las Vegas, a new feature was announced, VMware Intelligent Assist!
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- Keep the Brotli workaround on SDDC Manager, and finish the ESX logging fix this week. VMSA-2026-0008.1 still lists every SDDC Manager fix as "Patch pending", so KB 460732 on 9.1.1 or KB 460734 on 9.0.x, 9.1.0 and 5.2.x is what protects you. BleepingComputer reports a US federal deadline of 10 November for the underlying Brotli flaw, and GBHackers reports 11 November for the ESX logging flaw CVE-2026-41709, whose fixed builds are in the VMSA-2026-0006 matrix.
- Check ClusterClass and Supervisor versions before you move to VKS 3.8. The VKS 3.8 release notes need VKS 3.5.0 or later and a Supervisor Kubernetes version of at least 1.33, remove ClusterClasses builtin-generic-v3.1.0 to v3.3.0, and ask for every cluster to be on ClusterClass 3.6.0 or later before you upgrade the Supervisor to 9.1, or you may get system-initiated rolling updates. Today's deep dive has the rest.
- Keep the vsphere provider pinned to ~> 2.17 if Terraform manages your Supervisor namespaces. The CHANGELOG still shows 2.18.0 as not released, with storage_policies on vsphere_namespace replaced by storage_policy blocks. Nothing has shipped yet, so there's time to plan the change.
- Security No new VMSA
- Releases & KBs All quiet
- Terraform & Packer Nothing new
- Next deadline 10 Nov
Code Projects
VMware Explore 2024 Hackathon Winning team
Project and code from the Las Vegas hackathon at VMware Explore 2024.
Simplify VCF Deployment & Operations with Terraform
Session code with examples for deploying VCF and common post-bring-up tasks.
Automating VCF Day 1 Operations
Session code covering Day 1 actions via the API and PowerVCF.
Presentations
Every slide deck and demo from the events I've been lucky enough to present at.