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Quick Tip - Character Limits for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Objects

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Similar to my blog post on character limits for the different types of vSphere Inventory Objects, here is a quick look on some VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Objects and their respective character limits.

While looking into this topic, I was pleasantly surprised to find that some of the rename workflows in SDDC Manager UI includes an informational icon that provides the naming constraints in addition to the character limit. I was able to test and verify the character limits by using a combination of the SDDC Manager UI and API and below were my findings as of the VCF 5.1 release.

Object Character Limit Minimum Character Limit Maximum
Management Domain 3 20
Workload Domain 3 20
Network Pool 3 40
Organization Name 3 20
Edge Cluster 1 80

PowerCLI automation for VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA (PAIF-N)

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With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.1.1, customers can now take advantage of the new VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA (PAIF-N) solution, providing an optimized and validated platform by NVIDIA for running modern AL/ML workloads on VCF. To learn more about the PAIF-N solution for VCF, there is a comprehensive PAIF-N Guide that includes the full software build-of-materials (BOM) as well as a step-by-step implementation guide for deploying the solution.

If you are interested in exploring the new PAIF-N solution, I recently came to learn the PowerCLI team have created some really useful PowerCLI scripts which fully automates the deployment of PAIF-N and makes setting up the environment a breeze!

There are 4 PowerCLI scripts that is included in the PAIF-N automation:

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Quick Tip - clusterImageEnabled property required for JSON deployment in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.1.1

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While updating and testing my Automated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Lab Deployment Script to support the latest VCF 5.1.1 release, I came across a strange error message in the Cloud Builder UI about uploading the personality to SDDC Manager:

Failed to upload personality to SDDC Manager Failed to upload personality to SDDC Manager


It turns out with VCF 5.1.1, when you deploy using JSON deployment method, you need to explicitly define the property clusterImageEnabled, which determines if the VCF Management Domain will be deployed using vSphere Lifecycle Manager (VLCM) image based versus the legacy vSphere Update Manager (VUM) baseline under the clusterSpec specification.

"clusterSpec":
{
    "clusterName": "vcf-m01-cl01",
    "vcenterName": "vcenter-1",
    "clusterEvcMode": "",
    "clusterImageEnabled": true
}

Once I included the property with the desired value, I no longer ran into the issue and for anyone who is automating using Cloud Builder API, this will be a handy to be aware of.