In my previous post, I’ve demonstrated the deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0. This included the deployment of the fleet management components as well as the components of the Management Domain. In this post we’ll continue to build our VCF lab blueprint by deploying a Workload Domain with a supervisor-enabled vSphere cluster. These workload resources will be finally consumed by our tenant VCF Automation all-apps organization to enable self-service provisioning of resources for the end user.
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VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 has been released several weeks ago. Now there has been version 9.0.1 released. Time for me to finally deploy it in my lab environment. This blog post provides a step-by step guide how to prepare my lab and it provides a deep-dive guide how to deploy VCF 9.0 using the new VCF Installer.
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VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 has been released a few weeks ago. It introduces a more cloud-like, scalable, and intent-driven architecture for building and operating private cloud environments. Rather than thinking only in terms of vCenter servers, clusters, and management domains, VCF 9.0 encourages a layered architectural model built around constructs such as Private Cloud, Fleet, and Instance.
This article breaks down those core components and explains how they work together to deliver a modern private cloud platform.
The wait is over — as June 17th, VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 is generally available. In a nutshell, the goal of VCF 9.0 is to bring the public cloud experience to on-premises as a unified private cloud platform. Thus, it focusses on:
- Modern infrastructure
- Software defined
- Automated
- Simpler Operations
- Extendable
- Unified cloud experience
- Self-service
- All applications
- Private AI
- Security and resilience
- Prevention
- Compliance
- Faster recovery
Let’s have a quick look on what’s new with this major release.