As i’ve already covered in other blogpost we are able to leverage the offline depot to download our VCF Installation Files and Patches to our offline depot so that we don’t have to download everything again when we change our VCF-Installer to a new Version or simply update our depot for our fleet management. But…
Change the principal storage in VCF 9.1
With VCF 9.1 we now have the option to update our principial storage, but only if we stay within the same storage type. With that, if a storage array needs to be decomissioned we can simply change the principal storage in the SDDC Manager and leverage that for further deployments or rather automated tasks from…
Download VCF Express Patches to your offline Depot
Since Broadcom Released the new Express Patch 9.1.0400 you might need to download those files to your offline depot so that on one side your fleet depot can access those binaries or you are able to leverage the new files for your VCF deployment. The command itself is easy and can be altered depending on…
Deploy a new VCF 9.1 Fleet – Day 0
Preparation We need to prepare the actual VCF Deployment Requirements on CPU, Memory andStorage Each VCF Deployment comes in 3 flavours simple High Availability Medium High Availability Large so you should make sure to have enough left. The VCF Installer will also give some warnings: And also the validation will tell it to you: Networking…
connect your HTTP Offline Depot to VCF Installer 9.1
By default the VCF-Installer only supports https requests. But certs are a pain in a homelab so i downgrade my vcf-installer to support http 🙂 william lam alread described that for 9.0: https://williamlam.com/2025/06/using-http-with-vcf-9-0-installer-for-offline-depot.html and we are now going to do the same for 9.1 connect to your vcf-installer via ssh as vcf and then su…
Register your VCF Offline Depot with the VCF Business Console and download the Binaries
With VCF 9.1 you need to register your VCF Offline depot with the VCF Business website: To do that download the vcf-download-tool in version 9.1 and run it with the following command: In the VCF Business Console you will be able to manually register your software depot: And then you will receive an activation code…
Prechecks of your worst vCenter to be imported into VCF9
Ever wondered what prechecks are running when importing a vCenter into VCF9? Always wondered what might be a showstopper for an import? Guess you’re on the right blog 🙂 Imagine you have the following vSphere Environment: How does something look like? Apart from the fact that the legacy-esx-01 is red because Automation is hogging the…
VCF9 – Migrate ESXi Host Management vmknic(s) to vSphere Distributed Switch fails on nested ESX Hosts
An error occurred while communicating with the remote host. Network configuration change disconnected the host ‘vcf9-esx-05.vcf.lis.one’ from vCenter server and has been rolled back. Cause: A change in the network configuration disconnected the host ‘vcf9-esx-05.vcf.lis.one’ from vCenter Server. The change has been rolled back. or in VCF 9.1 It sucks when on nested ESX Hosts…
PCIe Bifurication and NVMe PCIe-Cards for vSAN ESA
You might wonder how you can add more NVME Drives on a mainboard as most m2-slots are sparse but we have PCIE-Slots and nice Adapters: But they won’t work easily in any mainboard as these cards bring some PCIe-Lane Divison with them. You see, a NVME is typically bound to 4 CPU-Lanes to leverage those…
Migrate Virtual Machines from Hyper V to VCF 9 with HCX
Something which doesn’t seem to happen so often is the migration of virtual machines from other Hypervisors to VCF. Granted, for some Windows Services like Active-Directory, File-Services or VDI Services you can simply deploy another Windows Server, make it a replica and then decomission your old Server. But even so, there are some other applications…