On a few occasions, I have noticed that after the initial deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 that also includes VCF Automation (VCFA), the VCFA VM can experience a sustained CPU usage spikes exceeding 30 GHz.

Interestingly, VCFA continues to function fine and I am still able to connect to both VCFA Provider Admin/Organization Portals and perform tasks. In fact, I would not have noticed if it was not for the fans on my MS-A2 spinning like crazy and was able to track it down to ESXi host running the VCFA VM.

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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 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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