VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 now supports a variety of storage types as principal storage, such as vSAN ESA/OSA, Fibre Channel, and NFS v3. In this blog article, I’ll demonstrate the necessary steps to deploy the Management Domain of a VCF9 instance with NFS as principal storage.
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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.
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.
Having a VMware home lab is important to learn products like VMware Cloud Foundation. In earlier posts I’ve already provided a comprehensive description of how to setup such a lab.
In this article, I’m going to have a fresh look on my lab, especially on the foundation of it — the hardware BOM.
As already discussed during the last weeks (see also here), access to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) licenses is changing in 2025. There are two ways to get personal VCF licenses, first being either a vExpert, or second having a VMUG Advantage membership. Both involve an active VMUG Advantage membership, and the requirement of passing the VCP-VCF certification exam, but vExperts get the VMUG Advantage membership for free (most likely only in 2025).