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VCF 9.1 Upgrade Series — Part 2: VCF 5.x to VCF 9.1 Major Version Upgrade

This is Part 20 of the series, the second of five articles in the Upgrade Series. Part 19 covered pre-upgrade readiness; this article covers the actual execution path for the most complex upgrade scenario: VCF 5.x to VCF 9.1. VCF 5.x to VCF 9.1 is

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VCF 9.1 Upgrade Series — Part 1: Pre-Upgrade Readiness & Planning

This is Part 19 of the series, and the opening article of a five-part Upgrade Series covering everything from pre-upgrade planning through post-upgrade validation. The series sits alongside the migration guides in Parts 10–13 — those cover storage-vendor-specific paths for customers running NetApp, Pure, Dell,

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VCF 9.1 Design Topology Field Guide Part 4: Identity, Security, Operations, and Recovery Topology Patterns

An architect’s read on the identity, security, operations, and recovery topology decisions in VCF 9.1

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VCF 9.1 Design Topology Field Guide Part 2: Network Topology Patterns

An architect’s read on the network topology decisions in VCF 9.1: the VPC consumption model (Project / VPC / Default Transit Gateway), the Centralized vs Distributed Transit Gateway design choice

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VCF 9.1 Design Topology Field Guide Part 1: Foundational Topology Patterns

An architect’s read on the foundational design topology decisions in VCF 9.1

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VCF 9.1 Disaster Recovery, Backup, and Restore: An Architect’s Field Guide

An architect’s read on the protection architecture of VCF 9.1: vSAN Data Protection for local snapshots (included with VCF), VCF Protection and Recovery (the renamed VMware Live Recovery)

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Upgrading to VCF 9.1 from vSphere + Aria + HPE Storage: The Storage-Specific Migration Guide

Storage-specific guidance for HPE customers

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Upgrading to VCF 9.1 from vSphere + Aria + Dell Storage: The Storage-Specific Migration Guide

Storage-specific guidance for Dell customers

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Upgrading to VCF 9.1 from vSphere + Aria + Pure Storage: The Storage-Specific Migration Guide

Storage-specific guidance for Pure Storage FlashArray customers moving to VCF 9.1.

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Upgrading to VCF 9.1 from vSphere + Aria + NetApp ONTAP: The Storage-Specific Migration Guide

Storage-specific guidance for NetApp customers moving to VCF 9.1.

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VCF 9.1 Design Topology Field Guide Part 3: Compute, Storage, and AI Topology Patterns

An architect’s read on the compute, storage, and AI topology decisions in VCF 9.1

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VCF Operations as the Day-2 Operating Model: How to Actually Run a VCF 9.1 Fleet

The redesigned Build / Manage / Operate / Protect console, real-time metrics at 2-second granularity,