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MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Configuring VCF Automation

08.05.2025 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

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 initial setup of VCF Automation (VCFA) using the Provider Admin Portal and creating your first VCFA Organization that will allow users to request and consume resources from the vSphere Supervisor and NSX VPC Networking that we had configured earlier.


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

  • VCF Automation Provider Documentation
  • VCF Automation Organization Documentation
  • VCF Automation Video Series

Requirements:

  • VCF 9.0 environment deployed
  • NSX VPC configured with Centralized Transit Gateway
  • vSphere Supervisor configured with NSX VPC Networking

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Categories // VMware Cloud Foundation Tags // VCF 9.0, VCF Automation

MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Configuring vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS)

08.04.2025 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

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 explore one of the foundational vSphere Supervisor services called vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS), enabling administrators to easily deploy, manage and lifecycle conformant Kubernetes Clusters at scale for their development and platform teams. VKS can be consumed through vCenter Server for single IT organizations, as well as through VCF Automation for organizations that require strong multi-tenancy, including cloud service providers.


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

  • Configuring and Managing vSphere Namespaces Documentation
  • Provisioning VKS Cluster Documentation

Requirements:

  • VCF 9.0 environment deployed
  • NSX VPC configured with Centralized Transit Gateway
  • vSphere Supervisor configured with NSX VPC Networking

[Read more...]

Categories // Kubernetes, VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere Kubernetes Service, vSphere Supervisor Tags // VCF 9.0, vSphere Kubernetes Service

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

08.01.2025 by William Lam // 6 Comments

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:

  • vSphere Supervisor w/NSX VPC Documentation
  • Updating vSphere Supervisor Documentation

Requirements:

  • VCF 9.0 environment deployed
  • NSX VPC configured with Centralized Transit Gateway
  • 5 x consecutive IP Addresses for the vSphere Supervisor Control Plane VM (required even for single node deployment)
  • If you are using vSAN, make sure to silence any alerts you might have or it will prevent vSphere Supervisor from completing the configuration

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Categories // VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere Kubernetes Service, vSphere Supervisor Tags // VCF 9.0, vSphere Kubernetes Service, vSphere Supervisor

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