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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!
Latest News from the Web
A quiet start to KubeCon week, and how to get NSX TEPs and MTU right first time
- Keep the Brotli workaround on SDDC Manager, and get the ESX logging fix in before Wednesday. VMSA-2026-0008.1 still shows "Patch pending" for every SDDC Manager version, so KB 460732 on 9.1.1 (or KB 460734 on 5.2.x, 9.0.x and 9.1.0) is what's protecting you. Press reports put the US federal deadlines at 10 November for the Brotli flaw and 11 November for ESX CVE-2026-41709, whose fixed builds are in the VMSA-2026-0006 matrix.
- Set the Edge TEP MTU in NSX's Global Fabric Settings before you build Edge clusters from vCenter. KB 422523 explains that the VCF 9 Edge workflow always uses the global fabric MTU, and changing it afterwards doesn't touch Edges you've already deployed. Get the TEP VLAN right at the same time: on VCF 9.0 and 9.0.1, KB 456147 says the only supported fix for a wrong Edge TEP VLAN is redeploying the Edge cluster.
- If vSphere Express is on your shortlist for a small site, check the buying rules before you budget for it. Channel Dive reports you buy all 128 cores as one licence that can't be expanded, Broadcom approves each purchase, and only existing partners can sell it; cloudmagazin adds that several Express instances can't be managed centrally. Broadcom hasn't published a price.
- Security No new VMSA
- Releases & KBs All quiet
- Terraform & Packer Nothing new
- Next deadline 10 Nov
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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.