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VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 4: Fleet Topologies and SSO Boundaries (Single Site, Dual Site, Multi-Region)

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TL;DR Architecture Diagram Table of Contents Scope and Code Levels This article is written against VCF 9.0 GA terminology and design guidance. Version Compatibility Matrix Use this as your “shared truth” when people ask “what exactly are we talking about?” Component Version Build VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 24755599 VCF Installer 9.0.1.0 24962180 ESX 9.0.0.0 24755229 … Explore: VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 4: Fleet…

VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 3: Day-0 to Day-2 Ownership Across Fleets, Instances, and Domains

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TL;DR If you want clean accountability in VCF 9.0, anchor your operating model to the official hierarchy: VCF private cloud -> VCF fleet -> VCF instance -> VCF domain -> vSphere clusters. This post translates that hierarchy into an operating model: who owns what, where day-0/day-1/day-2 work happens, and how topology (single site vs two … Explore: VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 3: Day-0…

VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 2: Fleet Services vs Instance Management Planes (and Who Owns What)

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TL;DR Standardize on the official hierarchy: VCF private cloud -> VCF fleet -> VCF instance -> VCF domain -> vSphere clusters. A VCF fleet is managed by one set of fleet-level management components (notably VCF Operations and VCF Automation), while each VCF instance keeps its own management domain and domain-level control planes. Your fastest path … Explore: VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 2: Fleet…

VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 1: Fleets, Instances, Domains, and the Fleet Management Layer

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TL;DR If you want alignment fast, standardize on this hierarchy and ownership split: Architecture Diagram Table of Contents Scenario You need architects, operations, and leadership to answer the same questions the same way: If you do not standardize vocabulary, you end up with: Series map This topic is usually too big for one post, so … Explore: VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 1: Fleets,…