ConfigMgr – VMware, Azure and Automation

Building a Stretched VCF Workload Cluster on NFS: Lessons from the Field

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is opinionated software. Most of the time that’s a good thing — it removes a lot of the guesswork from building a private cloud. But the moment your design deviates even slightly from the “textbook” vSAN-based stretched cluster, you start hitting friction points that aren’t well…

How to Fix “Version Drift” in VCF Operations After an SDDC Manager Upgrade

7 juli 2026 Cloud Foundation SDDC Manager VMware

If you have recently upgraded your VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment, you might notice a frustrating status under the Domain Management Components page in VCF Operations: Version Drift. This status can stop future lifecycle operations in their tracks, but the fix is quick and requires zero downtime. Here is why…

Demystifying VCF 9.1 Networking: From Core Architecture to VPCs and VNAs

29 mei 2026 Cloud Foundation ITQ NSX

If you have ever felt overwhelmed by the networking layer of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), you are not alone. In this post I will try to explain how the different components work together in VCF NSX not only for you (the reader) but also for myself 😉 With the release…

Migrating NSX Distributed Firewall Policies – part 3

20 maart 2026 Cloud Foundation NSX Powershell Script Solutions VMware

As with many scripts, you start with an MVP (Minimum Viable Product). But as time goes by, you realize that improvements can be made. For the NSX DFW scripts, I changed the script to sanitize the firewall policies to remove some default strings and also change the ID to match…

Migrating NSX Distributed Firewall Policies – part 2

7 maart 2026 Cloud Foundation NSX Powershell Script Solutions VMware

In a previous post, I wrote about a toolkit to migrate NSX Distributed Firewall objects like groups and rules. The toolkit consists of seven PowerShell scripts that are designed to be run in sequence: However, I’ve created an extra script to handle the migration of services, including the sanitization of…

Migrating NSX Distributed Firewall Policies the Right Way: A PowerShell Toolkit

6 maart 2026 Cloud Foundation ITQ NSX Powershell Script Solutions VMware

When our team was handed the task of migrating a large NSX environment (that was migrated several times) to NSX 9, I quickly realized that the built-in tooling wasn’t going to cut it for what we needed. The migration involved hundreds of custom security groups, firewall policies, service definitions, and…

VMware Health and Security Toolkit: The New Standard for vSphere & VCF Assessments

19 december 2025 VMware

In modern datacenters, VMware environments have become the beating heart of digital operations. They’re powerful, flexible, and deeply integrated into business‑critical workflows. But as these environments grow, so does the complexity of keeping them healthy, secure, and aligned with best practices. For years, VMware administrators relied on tools like vHealthAnalyzer…

Safeguarding Your VCF 9 Deployment: Backup Configuration Essentials

8 december 2025 Cloud Foundation VMware

In the world of modern digital infrastructure, resilience is not optional—it’s a necessity. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 brings powerful capabilities for managing private cloud environments, but even the most advanced platforms are vulnerable to failures, misconfigurations, or unforeseen disruptions. That’s why configuring backups is one of the very first…

Using PowerShell for Aria OPS API

8 juli 2025 Cloud Foundation Powershell Script VMware

In a previous article, I wrote about accessing the Aria OPS Chargeback API. In that article, I used Postman for testing the API calls. I also wrote that I would convert those Postman API calls into a Powershell script. So here goes… The steps to generate a bill and to…