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Holodeck LAB: Upgrading to VCF9 (on unsupported hardware)

Holodeck LAB: Upgrading to VCF9 (on unsupported hardware)

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VCF9 is here and I want to look at it. That said, I have some older hardware, so I am not sure if I will be able to run VCF9 on it. But let’s explore. Disclaimer: This is unsupported, and there is a reason for that. So don’t do this in production (of course, a nested environment would also not be used in production, but you get my drift). Install vCenter Server and Upgrade physical host First step is to…

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Deploying VMware Cloud Foundation – Management Domain

Deploying VMware Cloud Foundation – Management Domain

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After the theory (Building a VMware Cloud with VCF (a short history)), it is time to dive into the technical stuff. Let’s deploy us some VCF! VMware Cloud Foundation is deployed in multiple steps. Since you are deploying an environment that has dependencies on itself, there is one tool that you can use, to help you along. This tool is called the Cloud Builder VM (which is a pretty cool name ;)). It can be downloaded from the My VMware…

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