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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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Minimal VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 Lab Setup

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I have been a huge fan of using the Minisforum MS-A2 to deploy VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, which has been a fantastic way to get hands-on experience with the latest release of VCF!

Best of all, it allows us to explore all the exciting new capabilities that VCF 9 has to offer, while balancing the required resources for a minimal footprint deployment!


Over the past couple of months, I have been performing extensive testing and validation of VCF 9 running on the MS-A2 and I have documented the full installation process that users can follow along in this Github repository:

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VCF 9.0 Hardware BOM for Silicon Valley VMUG

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I recently participated in a special VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 event at the Silicon Valley VMUG, which was held at the Broadcom headquarters in Palo Alto, California.


I had a fantastic time at the event, lots of great engagement from attendees, kudos to Frances Wong and the entire VMUG team for putting the event together!

With the huge amount of interests from the community in running VCF 9, I thought this would be a great event to showcase a VCF 9 lab setup using the popular Minisforum MS-A2. The exact same VCF 9 lab setup will also be used for the upcoming VMware {Code} Hackathon at VMware Explore, so definitely sign up if you are interested in playing with the MS-A2 at Explore!

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