Welcome to part 4 of the VCF-9.1 home lab series. The previous post in this series discussed the pre-deployment planning and checklist. In this post, I will demonstrate setting up an offline depot for deploying a VCF 9.1 fleet. The

Welcome to part 5 of the VCF-9.1 home lab series. The previous post in this series discussed setting up an offline depot. In this post, I will demonstrate deploying the VCF 9.1 management domain. After you configure the depot settings

Welcome to part 3 of the VCF-9.1 home lab series. The previous post in this series discussed the VCF 9.1 high-level design and lab best practices. In this post, I will discuss the planning and preparation for deploying a VCF

VCF 9.1 was released last week and created quite a buzz in the VMware community worldwide. If VCF 9.0 was the architectural reset, 9.1 is the optimization layer — the release where the new constructs introduced in 9.0 get hardened,

Introduction VMware snapshots provide a point-in-time representation of a virtual machine’s virtual disk state. They are useful for short-term testing, maintenance, and controlled change operations. However, snapshots are not intended to replace backups and should not be left active indefinitely.

Introduction vCenter Server is a critical management component in a VMware environment. Losing its configuration can affect host management, virtual machine operations, networking, and cluster services. A reliable backup strategy should therefore be established before the environment is placed into