My Cloudy World

PowerVCF – Introduction to Certificate Management with VMware Cloud Foundation

January 22, 2020

In this blog series I’m going to explore the capabilities provided in VMware Cloud Foundation that allow you to perform certificate management across components managed by SDDC Manager. The capability to manage certificates was introduced a number of releases ago but with the release of version 3.9 the ability to perform these same operations were exposed … More PowerVCF – Introduction to Certificate Management with VMware Cloud Foundation

Introducing PowerVCF – Power to VI Admins

January 14, 2020

Back in December I was chatting with my good friend and colleague Brian O’Connell about automating a bunch of post configuration tasks within VMware Cloud Foundation using the new Public APIs, and it was during that conversation he shared a pet project he had been working on called PowerVCF, the idea behind PowerVCF being a … More Introducing PowerVCF – Power to VI Admins

VxRail Support – VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Validated Designs

September 30, 2019

The question concerning what versions of VMware Validated Design are supported on what versions of VxRail has come up a number of times over the last couple of weeks, as a result we have had a new VMware Support KB article created to track. And for those that were not aware a similar VMware Support … More VxRail Support – VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Validated Designs

Part 1 – What is PlatformAudit?

September 30, 2019

In order to implement a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) there are many VMware components that get implemented along with a number of prerequisite requirements. Some of the prerequisites we have full control over but many fall within the responsibility of the end customer. As a result in order to ensure the smoothest possible deployment its … More Part 1 – What is PlatformAudit?

VMware Cloud Builder – PlatformAudit Series

September 30, 2019

At VMworld 2019 in the US this year I was lucky enough to be able to present the breakout session HBI1259BU – Accelerate VMware Cloud Foundation with VMware Cloud Builder (don’t worry if you were not able to attend and will be going to VMworld Europe in Barcelona in November I will be presenting again), … More VMware Cloud Builder – PlatformAudit Series

VMware Cloud Builder – Logging and Log Collection

April 29, 2019

VMware Cloud Builder is used to automate the deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Validated Designs, during the initial bringup phase both solutions use the same components of the VMware Cloud Builder appliance: JsonGenerator – used to take the Excel file and generate the JSON file used by the bringup service PlatformAudit – used … More VMware Cloud Builder – Logging and Log Collection

VMware Cloud Builder Version Matrix

April 26, 2019

Last Updated: 14-Jan-2020 VMware Cloud Builder supports both VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Validated Design deployments each of which have their own version numbers. VMware Cloud Builder also has its own version and build number and as we release new versions keeping track of which version supports which VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Validated Design … More VMware Cloud Builder Version Matrix

This blog has been created as a central location to capture information that is relevant to my job. It will hopefully help the wider community at the same time. The content is focused on VMware's Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC).