Where we left off Part 1 built the licensing control plane. Part 2 took vCenter and the four hosts to 9.1 and finally got the 64 cores assigned. Everything that was going to be upgraded has been upgraded. Which means this post isn’t an upgrade at all. It’s a deployment. The VCF Installer is going […]
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Up on the Wall: Upgrading to VCF 9 Part 2
Where we left off Last time we built the licensing control plane: VCF Operations deployed and collecting, License Server registered, 128 cores of entitlement pulled down from Broadcom. And then we hit a wall, because none of that entitlement could actually be assigned to anything. The vCenter Systems table only lists 9.x instances, and vCenter […]
The Drums Are Getting Louder: Upgrading to VCF 9 Part 1
Up Front! This is a 3 part series that walks through an example of a vSphere 8 -> VCF 9 environment: This post is part 1, which will detail deploying VCF ops and the licensing server to properly license a VCF 9 enviornment Post 2 details the basics, which isn’t any different from previous vCenter […]
Honey I Shrunk the Capacity – Understanding the Replication Metric in ActiveDR on FlashArray
Intro Wayne Szalinski did not mean to shrink his kids. He was tinkering with a machine in the attic, a baseball came through the window at exactly the wrong moment, and suddenly four children were the size of a grain of rice and lost somewhere in the backyard. The entire rest of the movie is […]