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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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A quiet Saturday, so here's how vCenter upgrades with only minutes of downtime
- If vCenter still isn't patched for CVE-2026-59310, make it today's job, and keep the Brotli workaround in place on SDDC Manager. CVE-2026-59310 has been in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue since 18 August; the VMSA-2026-0006 matrix lists vCenter 9.1.0.0300, 9.0.2.0100 and 8.0 U3k as fixed. 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, 9.0.2 and 9.1.0) is still your protection.
- Before your next vCenter upgrade in VCF 9.1, reserve a temporary IP address on the management subnet and check the portgroup security settings. The VCF 9.1 upgrade prerequisites ask for a temporary IP for each vCenter appliance upgrade, and KB 313288 warns that MAC Changes or Forged Transmits set to "Reject" on the vCenter's portgroup could prevent a successful Reduced Downtime Upgrade. Both are quick to check now and painful to discover mid-window.
- Rewrite storage_policies as storage_policy blocks before you move to vsphere provider 2.18.0. The 2.18.0 release replaces the attribute on vsphere_namespace and its data source, so keep ~> 2.17 pinned until your namespace code is updated.
- Security No new VMSA
- Releases & KBs All quiet
- Terraform & Packer Nothing new
- Next deadline 4 days
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