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Last Updated: 26-March-204 Welcome to Edition #23 of the What’s New for VMware Validated Solutions, this is the update for March 2024, the highlights of which are: Added support for VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1.1 for all VMware Validated Solutions Update to password management for the latest Photon OS Various enhancements to Intelligent Operations Management for …
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Last Updated: 30-January-2024 Welcome to Edition #22 of the What’s New for VMware Validated Solutions, this is a our first update for 2024 and the team has been busy over the festive period. Highlights include: New Solution – Intelligent Network Visibility for VMware Cloud Foundation Architectural change to Identity and Access Management for VMware Cloud …
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Last Updated: 07-November-2023 Welcome to Edition #21 of the What’s New for VMware Validated Solutions, slightly delayed due to the availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 but today we announced the following updates: New Solution – Cloud-Based Ransomware Recovery for VMware Cloud Foundation Updated branding from VMware vRealize Suite to VMware Aria Suite. Added support …
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This is the final part of my blog series in which I talk about automating the VMware Cloud Foundation upgrade process. At this point you should have completed the following tasks: Downloaded All Bundles Initial Health Check SDDC Manager Upgrade SDDC Manager Configuration Drift Update We are now ready to begin the process of upgrading …
Last Updated: 26-September-2023 Welcome to Edition #20 of the What’s New for VMware Validated Solutions, today we announced the following updates: New Solution – Cross Cloud Mobility for VMware Cloud Foundation Cross Cloud Mobility for VMware Cloud Foundation We are delighted to announce the release of this brand-new VMware Validated Solution. The Cross Cloud Mobility …
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This is part three of a five part blog series in which I talk about automating the VMware Cloud Foundation upgrade process. If you have been following the series so far then you will have your bundles downloaded, and performed various health checks to confirm that all is well and will now be ready to …
This is part two of a five part blog series in which I talk about automating the VMware Cloud Foundation upgrade process. In part one we discussed downloading the bundles to SDDC Manager to prepare the system for the upgrade process, in this post we discuss performing the upgrade pre-checks. Ensuring your VMware Cloud Foundation …
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Last Updated: 29-August-2023 Welcome to Edition #19 of the What’s New for VMware Validated Solutions, today we announced the following updates: New Solution – Cloud-Based Workload Protection for VMware Cloud Foundation Added support for VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.2 for all VMware Validated Solutions Enhancements to Intelligent Operations Management for VMware Cloud Foundation Added password policy …
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Last Updated: 29-08-2023 VMware Validated Solutions are byte sized solutions developed to extend the foundational capabilities of VMware Cloud Foundation, for background reading see my previous post here. Over time the team intends to add incremental value where opportunities arise and I plan to share as much detail as I can with each new update …
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In order to upgrade VMware Cloud Foundation you must first download the upgrade bundles, I recently wrote a blog Automating the Download of VCF Bundles for a Release on this topic which I shared a script vcfBundleDownload.ps1 which can be downloaded from GitHub which we will utilize as part of the procedure here. The script …
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