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.
Tag: VMware Cloud Foundation
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.
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).
As I have now a new shiny lab server, I wanted to have a possibility to easily deploy and destroy a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment for learning and presentation purposes.
Deploying a full VCF stack is a lengthy process where a lot of components must be considered and need to fit together, e.g. the many VCF systems themselves, as well surrounding systems like Active Directory, or upstream routers. To make the deployment easily repeatable, the whole deployment process must be automated. Luckily, smart people at VMware have exactly done this and created the Holodeck Toolkit for this use case. Holodeck enables us to deploy a nested VCF environment on a single ESXi host in an automated fashion.
In this blog post, I’ll describe my experience deploying a single VCF 5.1.1 instance using the Holodeck Toolkit 2.0. Although the official Holodeck documentation is quite extensive, I did run into some issues during my initial deployments, which I’m going to describe here as well.