When a vSphere Supervisor Upgrade Gets Stuck on Spherelet VIB Removal
A simple field note on a vSphere Supervisor upgrade that stalled because vLCM could not remove the old Spherelet component while files were still in use.
VMware Cloud Foundation architecture in practice
Design, operations, lifecycle, and automation patterns grounded in a real VCF environment.
Lab Snapshot
Updated 2026-05-09 16:04 UTC
Hosts11
VMs114
Powered on82
CPU GHz439.1
RAM GB3028.3
Datastore TB162.2
Free TB60.1
Portgroups47
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Deploying a VMware Cloud Foundation Automation Tenant with Terraform
A Terraform example for creating a VMware Cloud Foundation Automation tenant foundation with region quota, networking, storage policy exposure, VM class exposure, local admin, and content library.
Field note: NSX Edge CPU lockups and Enhanced Datapath on Minisforums MS-A2 MiniPCs
A short VCF lab note on NSX Edge receive ring-buffer overflows, host CPU pressure, and the changes that appear to have stabilised the environment.
Deploying a VMware Cloud Director Tenant with Terraform
A Terraform example for building a VMware Cloud Director tenant, edge networking, shared storage, demo VMs, NAT, security groups, and firewall policy from code.
vSAN Witness Power-On Failure with Software Memory Tiering
Draft note: this is a lab workaround for a specific Software Memory Tiering placement block. I am not treating it as a Broadcom-supported design recommendation. This started as…
Resizing the VCF Automation Appliance 9.0.2 in a Home Lab
Unsupported change: Broadcom currently says that resource resizing for VCF 9.0.2 Automation components is not supported. Their KB is here: Broadcom KB 412468. Do not treat this as…
Adding a Private Harbor CA Certificate to a VKS Cluster
In my lab I have been building out a small VKS cluster running on the Supervisor in vCenter. The next step was to use a private Harbor registry…
PXE Booting ESX on MS-A2 with On-Demand Kickstart Generation
This is the third post in my MS-A2 VCF Lab series, and it’s where things start to get interesting. In VMware Cloud Foundation when a host is decommissioned…
Automating NSX Password Expiry Management across a VCF Workload Domain
In a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment, you typically have many NSX Manager and NSX Edge nodes deployed, especially as you scale across multiple sites, availability zones, or…
Fine-Tuning the BIOS for the MS-A2 Home Lab
In my previous post I talked about moving my home lab onto the MS-A2 MiniPCs. This follow-up digs into the BIOS configuration I ended up with. By default,…