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Over the last week or so, I upgraded our lab Aria Operations (vROps) 8.18.5 to VCF Operations 9.0.2. For the most part it went smoothly, but I hit ...
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Upgrading from VCF 5.2 to VCF 9.x Field Notes from a Live Lab Upgrade
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Executive summary: Here’s the Segment pattern I actually use in production. It’s idempotent (safe to rerun), pins the segment to the right Transpor...
VCF 9 clarifies Private Cloud → Fleet → Instance and offers two resilience patterns: Site-HA across zones and DR across regions.
Upgrading to Aria Ops 8.18.5? It’s not as easy as you may think.
Lead This runbook upgrades Aria Operations to 8.18.5 by first updating vIDM and Aria Suite Lifecycle (LCM) during the same maintenance window. I...
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