This is a multi-part blog series on some of the frequently asked questions and scenarios for the vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+ Cloud Services. What started out as a single blog post that attempted to summarize some of the learnings and notes that I have made while answering various questions from our field and customers for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+ quickly turned into a 3K+ word blog post and counting! 😅

While I thought it would be easier from a search perspective to have everything in a single blog post, I decided to take the advice from the community and actually break it up into small blogs which would be part of a large multi-part blog series, in no particular order but I recommend reading it in the following logical order as shown below:

• Frequently asked scenarios about vCenter Cloud Gateway (VCGW) for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+
• Frequently asked scenarios about vCenter Lifecycle Management for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+ (THIS BLOG POST)
• Frequently asked scenarios about vCenter Desired State Configuration for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+
• Frequently asked scenarios about VM Provisioning & Management for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+
• Frequently asked scenarios about Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI) for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+
• Frequently asked scenarios about Global Inventory for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+
• Frequently asked scenarios about Subscription & Entitlement for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+

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This is a multi-part blog series on some of the frequently asked questions and scenarios for the vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+ Cloud Services. What started out as a single blog post that attempted to summarize some of the learnings and notes that I have made while answering various questions from our field and customers for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+ quickly turned into a 3K+ word blog post and counting! 😅

While I thought it would be easier from a search perspective to have everything in a single blog post, I decided to take the advice from the community and actually break it up into small blogs which would be part of a large multi-part blog series, in no particular order but I recommend reading it in the following logical order as shown below:

• Frequently asked scenarios about vCenter Cloud Gateway (VCGW) for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+ (THIS BLOG POST)
• Frequently asked scenarios about vCenter Lifecycle Management for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+
• Frequently asked scenarios about vCenter Desired State Configuration for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+
• Frequently asked scenarios about VM Provisioning & Management for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+
• Frequently asked scenarios about Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI) for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+
• Frequently asked scenarios about Global Inventory for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+
• Frequently asked scenarios about Subscription & Entitlement for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+

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The vSphere+, vSAN+ and the VCF+ Cloud Service all leverage the vCenter Cloud Gateway (VCGW) to provide secure connectivity between your on-premises VMware infrastructure and the VMware Cloud (VMC) Console. The process to setup the VCGW is made up of the following two steps:

1. Connect your VCGW to the VMC Console
2. Register your vCenter Server or SDDC Manager (VCF+) to your VCGW

We had an interesting question from one of our vSphere+ customers that wanted to better understand who within their organization was performing the VCGW and vCenter Server registrations for the vSphere+ Cloud Service?

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