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
Do you hear that? Faint right now. Easy to ignore when nothing is actually broken and the board is already full. But it has been getting a little louder every month. If you’ve seen The Two Towers you know the sound I mean. Not the battle. The part before the battle, where everybody is standing […]
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 […]