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VCF Operations for Logs Upgrade Fails Not Enough Disk Space /tmp

This is just a quick blog to cover an issue I encountered in the lab when I was running through some upgrades from 9.0 to 9.0.1 for a VVF (VMware vSphere Foundation) environment. Like many people the lab environment I use is self funded so fairly small and resources are scarce so most of the deployments are done at the smallest size as we are demonstrating functions not performance or high availability. When I was deploying the lab I chose to deploy VCF Operations for Logs as an Extra Small Appliance and all went well. Where I hit the issue was when I came to do an upgrade from 9.0 to 9.0.1 and as I went through the process I suddenly hit disk space issues trying to upload the PAK file. Now the Logs deployment had only happened three hours before and there were only three hosts and three VMs in the environment at this point, there was no way they could have been generating enough logs to fill the appliance.

Monday, January 12, 2026 | 2 minutes Read

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

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

VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) Basic Lab Configuration

Lab Configuration So the first part of this series is to quickly cover the lab environment. Now the majority of people who are seasoned lab users will probably skip this as all the information is available in many other already published series. But those who are new or following this to create their own environments for the first time might find the information useful. As previously mentioned I was rushing to create and document the environment and I missed a number of key configuration items that caused the deployments to fail, costing me time. The biggest issue I had was the use of snapshots and remembering what these included and did not when I had to roll back, the amount of times I made a change, forgot to document it and when I reverted caused me the same issue again was frustrating but it certainly blew the cobwebs away and got me back into the labs with a bang. Once you have done this a couple of times it all becomes second nature especially when you remember to document it all and put proper notes in the snaps.

Monday, January 12, 2026 | 5 minutes Read

VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) Introduction

Its been a while since I have had time to complete the many blogs that I have started but then not completed. I have been snowed under with customers and training to attempt Everest Base Camp this year. But it was a series of conversations with one of my customers that kicked me into gear to create the series that I am writing now. You would have been living under a rock if you did not know about the guiding hand we supply in helping customers with on their journey towards VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) in version 9. This will be great for most customers, but some will still have a requirement to either stay on, or have pockets of VVF (VMware vSphere Foundation) in their environments. Now if you look out there the web is overflowing with articles on VCF, but there are almost none on VVF. The documentation that is available with the version 9 is the most detailed and comprehensive I have seen in all my years working with VMware. However there is now no longer a separate branch for VVF compared to VVF and they are now all part of the same 800 plus page set of documents, this can make it difficult and confusing to pull out VVF specific information.

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Monday, January 12, 2026 | 3 minutes Read