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Troubleshooting VCF Management Services in VCF 9.1

6 augustus 2026 Cloud Foundation ITQ VMware

In VCF 9.1, components like SDDC Manager’s legacy appliances have been consolidated into the VCF Management Service — a set of components (Log Management/Ops Logs, VCF Operations for Networks, VCF Automation, Identity Broker, Fleet Lifecycle, Salt RaaS, etc.) running as pods inside a Kubernetes cluster called the VCF Services Runtime.…

VCF 9.1 SFTP Backup Target — Build on VMware Workstation, Migrate to VCF

24 juli 2026 Cloud Foundation VMware

Summary runbook covering: build in Workstation → export/import to vCenter → harden sshd for FIPS → verify → register in VCF Operations. Based on ITQ’s VCF 9.1 Backup Target guide, with fixes for the errors hit during this build. 1. Provision the VM in Workstation 2. Base OS setup Confirm/install…

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

22 juli 2026 Cloud Foundation ITQ NSX SDDC Manager VMware

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…