William Lam[🆕] - Creating Custom Virtual Machine Classes using vSphere API https://williamlam.com/2026/03/creating-custom-virtual-machine-classes-using-vsphere-api.html
[🆕] - VCF Installer Deploying VVF Components with VCF Entitlements https://williamlam.com/2026/03/vcf-installer-deploying-vvf-components-with-vcf-entitlements.html
Always get distracted when deploying a new vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) Cluster ... I need to make sure its operationally ready for the Platform Engr team 😅 🕹️👾
This might need to be a new Supervisor Service 😆
🔥🆕 Updated Technical Whitepapers for Microsoft workloads on VCF💪
🔸SQL Server Failover Cluster on #VCF9 https://www.vmware.com/docs/mssql-fci-vcf-9
🔹SQL Server on VCF https://www.vmware.com/docs/architecting-mssql-vcf
🔸SQL Server HA on VCF https://www.vmware.com/docs/architecting-mssql-ha-vcf
🔹Active Directory on VCF https://www.vmware.com/docs/active-directory-domain-services-vcf
[🆕] - Simplify License Management across VCF Operations Fleet & Standalone Deployment for Monitoring https://williamlam.com/2026/03/simplify-license-management-across-vcf-operations-fleet-standalone-deployment-for-monitoring.html
[🆕] - Automated Initial Configuration of VCF Operations 9 using CASA API https://williamlam.com/2026/03/automated-initial-configuration-of-vcf-operations-9-using-casa-api.html
[🆕] - Automated Deployment of VCF Operations 9 OVA https://williamlam.com/2026/02/automated-deployment-of-vcf-operations-9-ova.html
JFYI - New KB https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/403075/vcf-90-bringup-fails-at-esx-host-validat.html to address VvsCompatibilityController controller failed with error message : Invalid VMwareProductVersion which was due to invalid VVS entry (change has been reverted but in case you're seeing it, quick workaround)
🔥📰 Check out this blog post for more details regarding some of the changes for #VCF9 Server Hardware Certification, especially for those with certified 8.x Hardware!
VCF 9.0 Server Certification: Preserving Your Hardware Investment and giving the best ROI
Executive Summary VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 is designed to enable customers to modernize their cloud infrastructure, and part of that design is doing so without forcing unnecessary hardware refresh cycles. It was therefore exciting news to announce that, following data-driven reviews in pursuit of that design, the majority of servers certified for vSphere and … Continued
Klaus FrankManagement overhead of vcf9 is kinda insane.
There is literally nothing running on this box except for all of the vcf9 management components (+2 DNS servers with alpine linux that I count as management infrastructure for this as well)
Maybe I'll try Harvester again after all. Even though it also had a lot of overhead it didn't have nearly as much...
