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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 ...
🎉 First article of the new year — Happy 2026. Wishing you a year of projects completed successfully, on time, and on budget. I’m looking forward to...
Upgrading from VCF 5.2 to VCF 9.x Field Notes from a Live Lab Upgrade This is not a how-to guide. This is not a success story written after the d...
Includes Downloadable Script Why I Built This CIS alignment is easy to talk about and hard to operationalize. At any real scale, the problem i...
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. VMware recently released a security update for Aria Ops (vRops for the old school...
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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