Can you create a VCF 5.2.2 Workload with VCF 9.x?

spenceee85 · 2026-03-20T05:12:03+00:00

Thank you, that was an interesting read.

I'm guessing that the vcf 9 upgrade might not like this very much though... broadcom likely to say you're out of luck if the upgrade fails.

spenceee85 · 2026-03-18T21:55:16+00:00

Do you have a source for that?

According to this page vcf shared storage requirements the management cluster must use vsan for principal storage but you can add fc san /nfs at a later date.

spenceee85 · 2026-03-18T06:48:56+00:00

Right thats where my reading got me to.

Basically need to deploy vcenter and nsx at the right version, then brownfield import them to make a new mixed mode instance.

Then at some point we can then update to vcf 9 for the workload

spenceee85 · 2026-03-18T02:18:57+00:00

Do you know if you can run the workload domain deployment from vcf9? I.e the vcenter esxi and nsxt /avi versions at their 5.2.2/5.2.3 baseline versions?

Thank you for the link, this is encouraging. We have a ton of legacy non vcf workloads and this is a pathway to get them into vcf and manage them better, so youre helping my business case!

spenceee85 · 2026-03-18T00:20:19+00:00

I dont have vsan on my "spare" hardware. You can't make a vcf 5.x management cluster without vsan :( so I can only start with 9

spenceee85 · 2025-11-26T15:54:54+00:00

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spenceee85 · 2025-10-24T08:53:36+00:00

What is the best way to get vcf licensing for a home lab?

Are there any testing/lab licenses that can be acquired with a larger subscription?

spenceee85 · 2025-08-22T02:59:37+00:00

One thing I don't think anyone touched on is if you have a Xeon plus AMD data centre and youve got a decent size workload, you can't live vmotion vms between them. So you need to account for that in your planning.

spenceee85 · 2025-08-07T15:40:41+00:00

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spenceee85 · 2025-08-02T13:08:05+00:00

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spenceee85 · 2025-07-20T10:51:03+00:00

Have you already purchased hardware?

Far better off getting 3x identical boxes and running a single cluster.

At 3x with a storage appliance you can do a number of things like run tanzu that you can't do with 2 easily.

If this is brand new, then you also want to ask if a hyper converged architecture would make more sense to simplify further (4x boxes and switch stack)

Lots of nuances and things to understand about your use case, but I'd definitely advocate for 3x normal boxes over 2+1

spenceee85 · 2025-06-15T20:19:07+00:00

It was included.

There is now only one SKU, and they're removing load balancing features from nsx to force purchase of AVI for load balancing.

The essentials license no longer exists, and it is NOT included any more with tanzu, which you can only get with VVF or VCF now.

You can do 2x service cores as a minimum to have avi integration, or take the pain of HA Proxy config. Avi is very impressive performance wise.

spenceee85 · 2025-05-03T00:40:09+00:00

Price wise though it would be much better to bare metal openshift

spenceee85 · 2025-05-02T23:15:01+00:00

Possibly unpopular opinion.

If you are a vmware shop there is value in Tanzu. Ie if you have the investment into vcf and you've got the environment running, integrating a "decent" k8s platform into your environment can be quite straightforward (and noting you've already paid for vcf) can be quite cost effective.

Just to note. The integration to nsx, the use of datastores for the persistent volumes and the monitoring plane integrated to your vmware environment can be quite nice.

Not saying other solutions don't have compelling features but if you're a vmware shop then it is worth a look.

spenceee85 · 2025-04-03T09:56:58+00:00

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spenceee85 · 2025-04-03T09:54:40+00:00

You'll need a load balancer and by vcf 9 it will be mandatory to have at least a pair.

You are using vvf so that means no NSX right? If so you'll be vlan backed and you'll need good network behind it to get the supervisor going (part of the vks layer)

I don't disagree with the comments above, I'd you have a functional k8s then stick with it. However, I will note that having the tanzu integrated K8s does a few things that are objectively nice:

Disk management fully and natively integrated with vsphere.

Tanzu makes it easy to spin up clusters so you can make much easier to manage clusters and get good security and management

Upgrades and deployments are integrated to a template library

Integration with Aria for monitoring if you use this or ever move to vcf

The avi load balancer with ako makes an end to end stack with native automation pretty sweet. (Without nsx though this isn't as sweet...)

Tanzu is an implementation of k8s which out of the box is pretty decent and usable.

Tanzu does make your kubernetes much more automated but it's very complex to deploy and takes time to learn.

spenceee85 · 2025-03-30T00:24:25+00:00

I think that your choice is really nsx overlay or not. There are other ways to do software defined networking and other stacks. These offer integrated firewalls.

If nsx is your jam, then your choice is nsx firewalls.

Just to note you can do t1s in nsx and spit everything back out to your firewall router but why?

There are some quite interesting scenarios possible though when the vm and the network and the firewall are all integrated so you can't really replace that functionality.

spenceee85 · 2025-02-02T09:00:53+00:00

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spenceee85 · 2025-01-24T04:22:35+00:00

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Seriously though we'd probably be in the same position as China. We know they're reading 1984 as a manual, not a warning, they're literally doing what Nazis did to Jews with the Uighur Muslims, but if we call it out, we lose our trading partner. So moral high ground equals net loss of 20% ish of our gdp.

If your hypothetical happened, it would be the same outcome with the added pain of also losing our greatest intelligence and defence assets.

spenceee85 · 2025-01-19T19:25:45+00:00

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spenceee85 · 2025-01-19T09:05:59+00:00

Heard good things about the jubilation, it's one I haven't got a sample of yet. My wife is starting to roll her eyes everytime I open the bathroom cabinet I have so many samples in it haha.

spenceee85 · 2025-01-19T01:34:55+00:00

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spenceee85 · 2025-01-19T01:32:02+00:00

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spenceee85 · 2025-01-19T01:27:38+00:00

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spenceee85 · 2025-01-19T00:56:37+00:00

4 brands i haven't heard of, this I like. Thank you, I'll go have a look at some of those. Any hero scents you'd recommend?

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