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Consolidating Legacy vSphere and Older VCF onto VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: Design Patterns, Migration Paths, and Best Practices

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TL;DR Consolidating older vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation environments onto VCF 9.1 is not one upgrade procedure. It is a portfolio decision involving four different actions: upgrading an existing VCF instance, converging suitable vSphere infrastructure into a new VCF instance, importing an existing vCenter as a workload domain, or migrating workloads into a clean VCF … Explore: Consolidating Legacy vSphere and Older VCF onto VMware…

HCX 9.1 Migration Runbook: Network Profiles, Compute Profiles, Service Mesh, and First VM Move

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TL;DR An HCX 9.1 migration should not begin with the Migrate Virtual Machines button. It should begin with a dependency-ordered runbook that proves routing, firewall policy, IP pools, site pairing, Network Profiles, Compute Profiles, Service Mesh health, and Network Extension behavior before a production workload is touched. The practical sequence is: Introduction HCX failures often … Explore: HCX 9.1 Migration Runbook: Network Profiles, Compute Profiles,…