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MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Configuring vSphere Supervisor with NSX VPC Networking

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This post is part of a short series that builds on our minimal VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 deployment (2x Minisforum MS-A2) and showcases how to fully leverage the exciting new capabilities in the VCF 9 platform, all while maintaining a minimal resource footprint, which is ideal for lab and learning purposes.

In this blog post, we will walk through the configurations steps to enable vSphere Supervisor with NSX VPC networking for our VCF 9 environment and enable the new asynchronous update feature for vSphere Supervisor, which no long requires updating vCenter Server to recieved new updates.


Here are some additional NSX VPC Resources that might be of interests if you would like to learn more:

Requirements:

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Quick Tip - Establish trust between VCF 9.0 & 9.1 Installer and VCF Offline Depot w/self-sign TLS certificate

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For lab purposes, when configuring a VCF 9.0 or 9.1 Offline Depot, you can streamline the infrastructure setup by configuring the VCF Installer to use HTTP instead of HTTPS, which is the default configuration from the VCF Installer.

Alternatively, if you decide to use the system default which will expect the VCF Offline Depot to be served over HTTPS, you might be using a self-signed TLS certificate. If you attempt to connect to your offline depot with the VCF Installer, you probably will hit the following error as the TLS certificate is not trusted by the VCF Installer, which is expected.


In VCF 5.x, the workaround was to import your TLS certificate chain into SDDC Manager's certificate store which would then allow the trust to be established.

The exact same solution is required for the VCF Installer, but the path to the certificate store has changed.

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MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Configuring NSX Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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This post is part of a short series that builds on our minimal VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 deployment (2x Minisforum MS-A2) and showcases how to fully leverage the exciting new capabilities in the VCF 9 platform, all while maintaining a minimal resource footprint, which is ideal for lab and learning purposes.

In this blog post, we will walk through the configurations steps to enable NSX Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for our VCF 9 environment and demonstrate how to consume a VPC with your workloads.


I want to give a special shoutout to Dimitri Desmidt, who works in our Technical Marketing team and has been instrumental in helping me better understand NSX VPCs and how they work!

Here are some additional NSX VPC Resources that might be of interests if you would like to learn more:

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