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VCF 9.0 Fleet Latency Diagram

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Network latency is an important factor when designing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Fleet and to assist VCF architects in understanding the various latency maximums, we have just published a new VCF Fleet Latency Network Diagram, which is available under the Network Diagrams on the VMware Ports & Protocols website.


While these latency represent the upper bound for component to component functionality, it is also important to understand that latency can have different types of impact based on the type of traffic: control plane (UI/API) versus data plane (binary download/uploads).

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Quick Tip - Downloading VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Consumption CLI for Air-Gapped Environments

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Prior to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, you needed to install a custom kubectl vSphere plugin to interact with the vSphere Supervisor and deploy workloads such as vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS), VM Service, and Data Services.

This custom kubectl plugin was bundled with the vSphere Supervisor release, which meant it could only be downloaded after vSphere Supervisor was enabled and a vSphere Namespace had been created, since the namespace provided the link to the hosted binary.


In VCF 9.0, the kubectl vSphere plugin has been deprecated and has been replaced with the new VCF Consumption CLI which can be used to interact with both vSphere Supervisor Namespaces and/or VCF Automation Namespaces.

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Automating VCF Operations Objects & Metrics Reporting

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The number of objects and metrics collected by VCF Operations in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 plays a critical role in determining the size and scale of your VCF Fleet.

Using the VCF Operations UI, you can navigate to Administration->Control Panel->Cluster Management to view the cluster management-level stats but this only provides a subset of all the collected objects and metrics from the VCF Operations Adapters.


To get a more comprehensive understanding of all objects and metrics broken down by each adapter, you need to navigate to Administration->Cloud Proxies and iterate through each adapter as shown in the screenshot below.


It is not really scalable to use the VCF Operations UI to manually aggregate the total number of objects and metrics being collected, instead we can automate this by using the VCF Operations API!

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