Upgrading from VCF 5.x to VCF 9.0
Upgrading from VCF 5.x to VCF 9.0
Overview showing how to upgrade a VCF 5.x instance, that is running with the Aria LCM and Aria Operations, to a VCF 9.0 Fleet.
Month: September 2025
Capacity Management Series – Part 3: Planning…
Capacity Management Series – Part 3: Planning for Future Capacity Needs
Capacity Management Series – Part 3: Planning…
This video is Part 3 of the VMware Cloud Foundation Capacity Management series that shows you how you can leverage What-If Scenarios to for Infrastructure, workload, and Migration Planning. • Series Objectives – 00:27 • Infrastructure Planning Overview and Demo – 01:48 • Workload Planning Overview and Demo – 03:48 • Migration Planning Overview and Demo – 05:58 • Series Key Takeaways – 07:27
Capacity Management Series – Part 2: Optimizing…
Capacity Management Series – Part 2: Optimizing Capacity
Capacity Management Series – Part 2: Optimizing…
This video is Part 2 of the VMware Cloud Foundation Capacity Management series that shows you how you can optimize your environment’s capacity with reclamation and rightsizing tools. • Series Objectives – 00:27 • Reclaim and Rightsize Overview – 01:35 • Reclaim Demo – 06:43 • Modifying Reclamation Settings – 07:42 • Rightsize Demo – 08:03
Capacity Management Series – Part 1: Assessing…
Capacity Management Series – Part 1: Assessing…
This video is Part 1 of the VMware Cloud Foundation Capacity Management series that shows you how you can get an immediate assessment of your environment’s capacity needs.
Quick Tip – Improving thermals on Minisforum MS-A2
Quick Tip – Improving thermals on Minisforum MS-A2
If you own a Minisforums MS-A2, you may have noticed that the system can run quite warm under load. I certainly have been putting my MS-A2 to work by running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 and I have been trying various experiments in seeing how I can reduce both the thermals and thus the fan […]
Unlocking Memory Efficiency with NVMe Memory…
Unlocking Memory Efficiency with NVMe Memory…
Discover how NVMe memory tiering in VMware vSphere 9.0 helps reduce memory costs, improve VM consolidation, and optimize CPU utilization. Learn the benefits, use cases, and key ESXCLI monitoring commands for efficient tiered memory management.
My VCF 9 Lab Network Diagram
My VCF 9 Lab Network Diagram
During VMware Explore, I had a request from an attendee who was interested in my physical networking and how it is all connected for my VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 Lab setup. The network diagram below is based on the following VCF 9.0 Hardware BOM (Build-of-Material) and using the follow-[…]
Upgrading from vSphere to VCF 9.0
Upgrading from vSphere to VCF 9.0
Overview showing how to upgrade a vSphere 8.x instance, that is running with the Aria LCM and Aria Operations, to a VCF 9.0 Fleet.