VMware Cloud Foundation architecture, operations, and field notes from a working lab.
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.
A Terraform example for building a VMware Cloud Director tenant, edge networking, shared storage, demo VMs, NAT, security groups, and firewall policy from code.
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…
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…
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…
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,…
VCF 9.0 introduces new features like vSAN ESA and NVMe memory tiering, but running it on traditional rackmount servers can be costly, loud, and power-hungry. In this post,…