Here is a small, annoying truth about VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: any version table you write down is wrong within a few weeks. In 9.1 the components no longer move as one bundle. Each one patches on its own cadence through Express Patches, asynchronously, in its own release-notes tree. So the moment you paste “the…
If you have ever prepared a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment, you know the moment: someone sends over the official Broadcom Planning and Preparation Workbook, an Excel file with nine deeply technical sheets and hundreds of fields. FQDNs, VLANs, CIDRs, BGP AS numbers, certificate templates, service accounts — all of it, in one flat spreadsheet, and most…
This week I traded customer work for the Amsterdam Marriott and spent five days at Broadcom Activate (22–26 June), on the PS/EAP practitioner track — the one aimed squarely at the people who actually design, build, and run complex VCF environments in the field. As an ITQ consultant, that’s my corner of the world, so…
I am proud to share that I have been awarded the VMware vExpert 2026 title by Broadcom. Being part of the vExpert community is something I genuinely value, and receiving this recognition for another year means a lot. I am also proud to be part of ITQ, where I work as a Consultant. ITQ is…
If you have ever spent time carefully building custom roles in vCenter — defining exactly which privileges a monitoring account, a backup service, or a Tanzu user needs — you know how tedious it is to recreate those same roles on a second vCenter. There is no native export button in the vSphere Client. You…
The Problem Anyone who has spent time managing VMware vSphere environments knows the pain of VLAN validation. You’ve just rolled out a new set of port groups, migrated a batch of VMs, or made changes to your distributed switch configuration — and now you need to verify that each VLAN actually works end-to-end. The traditional…
Update — July 2026 (HostPrep.ps1 v4.1.1): the SSH plumbing has changed twice since I first published this. v4.1.0 dropped the Posh-SSH module in favour of the built-in Windows OpenSSH client, and v4.1.1 switched the actual authentication to the root password over that same client, because ESXi 9 removed the HTTPS endpoint the old key install…
A set of three PowerShell scripts to export, import, and clean up NSX segmentsand segment profiles across any NSX environment — compatible with NSX 4.x and 9.x. GitHub: https://github.com/pauldiee/nsx-segment-migration Introduction Migrating NSX segments between environments is one of those tasks that soundsstraightforward until you are actually doing it. Move a handful of segments byhand and…
After setting up VIDB authentication and adding our AD groups to the administrators role we logged into vcenter with our own admin account and noticed we could not open the hosts section where you Commission hosts and add/edit Network pools: This is a rights issue with SDDC Manager, you have to add your admin accounts…
When using VCF9 there are multiple places to configure SFTP backup for some components. For SDDC Manager and NSX it is still somewhat the same as in VCF 5 but within “Operations – Administration – SDDC Manager – Backups”. Here you configure your external SFTP and setup schedule and retention periods for those 2 products….
