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VMware Cloud (VMC) Console Inventory with various vSphere "Linked Modes"

06.28.2023 by William Lam // 1 Comment

While I have covered a number of popular topics across our vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+ Cloud Service in my recent 7-part blog series, which I definitely recommend folks check out first, direct links below:

  • vCenter Cloud Gateway
  • vCenter Lifecycle Management
  • vCenter Desired State Configuration
  • VM Provisioning & Management
  • Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI)
  • Global Inventory for vSphere
  • Subscription & Entitlement

One reoccurring theme that has come up and for good reasons is what users would see in the VMware Cloud (VMC) Console as it pertains to the different types of vSphere-based deployments from vSphere+, VCF+ and VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC-A), especially when incorporating the different "Linked Mode" configurations that are supported today?

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Categories // VMware Cloud, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Cloud on AWS, vSphere Tags // Enhanced Linked Mode, Hybrid Linked Mode, SDDC Group, vCenter Cloud Gateway, VMware Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS

Improved VM Storage Policy (Profile-driven storage) privileges in vSphere 8.x

06.26.2023 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

A couple of weeks ago I had noticed a few internal folks were asking about missing Profile-driven storage privileges in vSphere 8.x when referring to 2nd party VMware documentation asking for two privileges called "Profile-driven storage update" and "Profile-driven storage view" which no longer exists in vSphere 8.x when compared to the vSphere 7.x documentation.

At first, I thought this was purely a rename issue as the underlying feature of these privileges has always been known as VM Storage Policies, which is even used in the vSphere 7.x UI and has been around for quite some time. It looks like in earlier releases, the vSphere UI label for the privilege was still using the older name.

Here is a a screenshot of a vSphere 7.x environment where you can see the original two privilege names:


Here is a a screenshot of a vSphere 8.x environment, which now actually lists seven privileges, which has lead to some additional confusion.


Furthermore, it looks like these additional VM Storage Policy privileges have also not been updated in the vSphere 8.x documentation, which is currently a known issue and only references the renamed privileges.

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Categories // Automation, vSphere, vSphere 8.0 Tags // vm storage policy, vSphere 8.0

Frequently asked scenarios about Subscription & Entitlement for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+

06.23.2023 by William Lam // 1 Comment

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+
  • 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+ (THIS BLOG POST)

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Categories // VMware Cloud, VMware Cloud Foundation, VSAN, vSphere Tags // VCF, VMware Cloud, VMware Cloud Foundation, VSAN, vSphere

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William Lam is a Senior Staff Solution Architect working in the VMware Cloud team within the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) at VMware. He focuses on Cloud Native, Automation, Integration and Operation for the VMware Cloud based Software Defined Datacenters (SDDC) across Private, Hybrid and Public Cloud

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