Getting started with VCF 4.0 Part 3 – vSphere…

Getting started with VCF 4.0 Part 3 – vSphere with Kubernetes in a Workload Domain

Getting started with VCF 4.0 Part 3 – vSphere…

At this point, we have a fully configured workload domain which includes an NSX-T Edge deployment. Check here for the previous VCF 4.0 deployment steps. We are now ready to go ahead and deploy vSphere with Kubernetes, formerly known as Project Pacific. Via SDDC Manager in VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0, we ensure that an NSX-T Edge is available, and we also ensure that the the Workload Domain is sufficiently licensed to enable vSphere with Kubernetes. Disclaimer: “To be clear, this post is based…Read More


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Getting started with VCF 4.0 Part 2 –…

Getting started with VCF 4.0 Part 2 – Commission hosts, Create Workload Domain, Deploy NSX-T Edge

Getting started with VCF 4.0 Part 2 –…

Now that a VCF 4.0 Management Domain has been deployed, we can move onto creating our very first VCF 4.0 Virtual Infrastructure Workload Domain (VI WLD). We will require a VI WLD with an NSX-T Edge cluster before we can deploy Kubernetes on vSphere (formerly known as Project Pacific). Not too much has changed in the WLD creation workflow since version 3.9. We still have to commission ESXi hosts before we can create the WLD. But something different to previous versions of VCF is that today in…Read More


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Getting started with VMware Cloud Foundation…

Getting started with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 4.0

Getting started with VMware Cloud Foundation…

On March 10th, VMware announced a range of new updated products and features. One of these was VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 4.0. In the following series of blogs, I am going to show you the steps to deploy VCF 4.0. We will begin with the deployment of a Management Domain. Once this is complete, we will commission some additional hosts and build our first workload domain (WLD). After that, we will deploy an NSX-T 3.0 Edge Cluster to our Workload Domain. The great news here is that…Read More


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