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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…