architecture
Discontinued CPUs block the install, deprecated ones start a countdown, and the network cards fail quietly. Then the choice between import, converge and side by side, which is not the binary most people treat it as.
architecture
Host count used to predict upgrade effort and no longer does. A VCF 9.x upgrade scales with component count, which barely changes with estate size, so the smallest estates carry the worst ratio.
operations
VCF component patches are no longer synchronised and no single page enumerates a patch set. What the 12 October release actually contained, the order it has to be applied in, and what that does to a change record.
architecture
VCF Operations certificate management now reaches standalone vCenter 8.0 Update 3 and above, and VCF 5.2, without converting those estates to VCF. What 9.1.1 added, the CA options, and the licensing line that decides whether you can use it.
architecture
VCF 9.1.1 right-sizes VCF Management Services and adds a Small HA option, but an upgraded estate keeps its old sizing until somebody runs KB 455842. What that does to the with-or-without-the-management-plane decision.
Personal
A complaint gets you a meeting. A request gets you documents. A step-by-step guide for NSW parents, with sources.
One line from 1914 to today: every dated birth, marriage and passing in the family record, with the moments our documents preserve, from the 1969 letter to Boxing Day 1971. Branch colours throughout. Members only.
architecture
A community Management Pack for VCF Operations that is better engineered than most vendor material, and the four things worth checking before it goes near a regulated estate.
architecture
Licensing now costs the same wherever you run it, which takes one variable out of every comparison. What separates the four hyperscaler VMware services is who operates the stack, not what is underneath it.