This is first of 5 Fleet design patterns.

This is core concept of a VCF Fleet Basic deployment.

Think of this as our baseline VCF instance design – the foundation for all the other VCF Fleet deployment options I’ll cover next.

This article is contunuation of the previouse one: VCF Fleet with Site High Availability (Across Zones)

Now let’s move from high availability within a region to disaster recovery across regions.

On this slide we have:

• Region 1, which acts as the primary site, and

• Region 2, which acts as the disaster recovery site.

This article is contunuation of the previouse one: VCF Fleet Basic

Once you’ve deployed that basic VCF instance with Ops and Automation, you can scale out to multiple VCF instances.

On the icture below you can see several VCF instances, each with:

• Its own workload domain components – vCenter, NSX, and storage.

• Its own management domain where required.

VMware has released a new video demonstrating the end-to-end upgrade journey from an existing vSphere 8.x environment with Aria Suite to the latest VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 platform.

LINK TO VIDEO

The walkthrough showcases an environment that initially relies on Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager and Aria Operations, and illustrates how it is transitioned to the new VCF 9 operating model.
The process begins with upgrading Aria Lifecycle Manager to version 8.18 Patch 2 or later, which is a mandatory prerequisite. Using this updated lifecycle manager, Aria Operations is then upgraded to VCF Operations 9.0, during which a new component—the VCF 9 Fleet Management Appliance—is automatically deployed.