May 2026

VCF 9.1 Command Line

I thought I would write a quick post on the setup of the VCF tool for supervisors and VKS clusters. The setup is quite different and was confusing at first. I hope this helps others in their initial configuration and…

VCF 9.1 Two Node Build

This article will run through a VCF 9.1 build with 2 x Minis forum MS-A2 nodes; the spec is laid out here. I’m going to focus on the differences found so far from the prior 9.0.2 single-node build I wrote…

Home Lab Upgrades

I finally bit the bullet and ordered an additional node to allow more thorough setups with VMware Cloud Foundation 9 and other technologies, such as Red Hat OpenShift. With the advent of VMware VCF 9.1 and a hungrier Kubernetes management…

How to build a VCF 9.1 Offline Depot

This article will explain the steps required to build an offline depot for VCF 9.1 on Photon OS. The new version has some significant changes to be able to access the download binaries. In prior versions, a download token was…

OpenShift with NSX BGP Pattern and GitOps

This article explores an OpenShift networking pattern introduced in 4.19 that enables a deployment model closely aligned with common VMware NSX designs. Users of NSX are very likely using core feature sets such as: The main objective of this article…