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VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9.0 Greenfield Deployment

Welcome back, In the previous article I covered setting up the nested hosts to prepare for the green field deployment of VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0. This blog will cover the deployment using the VCF Installer appliance. Update - At this point I will not be covering the deployment of the VCF Installer appliance or the setting up of the repository depot. I will update this article at a later date to include these. As this lab environment is already running VCF I piggy backed onto the existing depot as I was short on time. There are a large number of blogs out there already that cover the VCF Installer deployment. The same appliance is used for VCF and VVF deployments so you could use one of those until I have time to update. You can also host the files on the installer itself if you did not want to create the depot - Using the VMware Download Tool. I wont be able to cover this configuration as I don’t have access to tokens to enable the download.

Monday, January 12, 2026 | 10 minutes Read
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VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9.0 Upgrade to 9.0.1

So if you have been following the previous blogs, or just jumped here we are now going to cover the upgrade of a VVF 9.0 environment to 9.0.1. What we cover here will allow you to upgrade to future versions as well and will show you the differences you will see between a VCF driven upgrade and the steps required in VVF. When Version 9 was released it was detailed that VMware was moving away from lots of different products all being released on their own cycles making planning an entire infrastructure upgrade a difficult task. When a new version comes out it will be for the whole stack, so when 9.0.1 was released in September 2025 it included updates for all the products supported in VVF. To carry out the update the products will need to be updated in the following order.

Monday, January 12, 2026 | 5 minutes Read
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VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) Day 2 Operations

Adding VCF Operations for Logs 9.0 Unlike in VMware Cloud Foundation VCF Operations for Logs is a manual deployment as there is no Fleet Management functionality. This is also the same for patching which will be covered in the next blog in the series. So to deploy VCF Operations for Logs, you first need to download the OVF file from the Broadcom Support Portal. Once downloaded open vCenter Right click the cluster or a Host and from the drop down menu choose Deploy OVF Template

Monday, January 12, 2026 | 6 minutes Read