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Sizing for VCF Operations Orchestrator is a short answer, one fixed appliance spec and exactly three nodes. The longer part is building the cluster, which is a load balancer, three OVA deployments and five commands over SSH.
Patching the VCF Services Runtime component to 9.1.1.0, from prechecks through a five hour rolling replacement of every node, with the kubectl commands to follow it from the control plane.
The two get used interchangeably and they solve completely different problems. What separates them, the two numbers that define both, and a worked example of three failures where only one of them saves you.
Product teams keep asking for applications that never go down. Here is why 100% uptime is not a real target, what people usually mean when they ask for it, and how to decide whether zero downtime upgrades are worth what they cost.
The order in which to patch the VCF management components when going from 9.1.0.x to 9.1.1.0. Two components go in sequence, then the rest follow in no fixed order, with two that must run on their own.
A deep dive into what actually happens when VCF Automation is upgraded to 9.1.0.0, covering the inputs you need, the import, configure and precheck phases, and the new cluster that gets built during the upgrade.
Walking through the SDDC Lifecycle patch to 9.1.1.0, from setting the target version and running prechecks through to the component showing the new version.
Patching the VCF Operations component to 9.1.1.0, including the prechecks, the UI downtime to expect during the patch, and monitoring progress from the VCF Operations Admin UI.
A walkthrough of patching the VCF management services fleet lifecycle component from 9.1.0.0 to 9.1.1.0, with screenshots of the UI steps and what happens on the control plane node.
Upgrade Paths vSphere to VCF 9.0.x | How do we get there from here? |
Seamless Upgrades: From VMware Aria Automation 8.18.x to VCF Automation 9.0.x
VCF Operations for Networks 9.0.x | Install Guide |
Handling Postgres Startup and Cert Regeneration After a VCF 9.0.1 Fleet Management Reboot
VCF 9.0 to VCF 9.0.1 Management Components Upgrade & Patching Runbook
Journey to VCF 9 having vSphere 8.x and VMware Aria Operations 8.x
Depot & Binary Management in VCF Operations fleet management appliance or OPS LCM 9.0
VCF Automation 9.0 Installation | Deep-Dive |
VMware Aria Automation 8.18 to VCF Automation 9.0 Upgrade MindMap
Online Upgrade of VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle is back...........
Upgrading VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle to version 8.18.0 using Online Method
Upgrading VMware Aria Automation to 8.17.0 through Suite Lifecycle
How do you download product binaries and product support packs after Day-2 changes
Requirement to increase memory before you upgrade your VMware Aria Automation to 8.16.2 while using Medium Sizing
VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Product Support Pack Screenshots
VMware Aria Operations for Networks Deployment through Suite Lifecycle
VMSA-2024-0001 Queries | Remediation through Suite Lifecycle |
Install VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.12 Patch 2 before upgrading to 8.14 for 7 crucial reasons
How to overcome / partition space warning during pre-check of Suite Lifecycle Upgrade to 8.14
Upgrading VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle | 8.12 to 8.14 | Demo |
Deploying Clustered VMware Aria Operations for Logs through Suite Lifecycle
VMware Identity Manager Upgrade from 3.3.6 to 3.3.7 | Deepdive |
Why should I upgrade my infrastructure and management apps frequently?
Check for upgrades returned with a value -6 Internal Error. Please make sure sfcbd is running.
VMware Aria Cloud Extensibility Proxy | Deploy and Upgrade | Runbook |
Fetching Environment Details from VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle using API
Upgrading Operations for Logs through Suite Lifecycle
Upgrading to VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.12
Authenticating via AD users and executing vRSLCM API's -- Detailed Procedure
vRealize LogInsight Upgrade from 8.8.2 to 8.10
vRealize Operations Upgrade from 8.6.4 to 8.10
Upgrade vRLSCM 8.8.2.3 to 8.10
View Password stored in vRSLCM 8.x locker using API
Changing Password programatically using API for a managed product in vRSLCM 8.x
Increasing /storage size when it's full in vRSLCM 8.x
Increasing size of /data partition in vRSLCM 8.x
Upgrading vRealize Operations using vRSLCM ......
Adding and Removing a Cluster VIP for vRLI managed by vRSLCM
Re-Trust vRA with vIDM from vRSLCM | Deep-Dive
vIDM based authentication in vRSLCM | deep-dive |
Upgrade Planner in vRSLCM 8.x
Installing Jenkins
Scaling Down vRealize Automation 7.x
Deploying a vIDM clustered environment using NSX-T Loadbalancer
vRSLCM Easy Installer deployment fails while initializing postgres
Comprehensive Guide to Upgrade & PSPAK Implementation for vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.x
Upgrading to vRealize Automation 8.8.1
Multi Node SaltStack Installation ( flow chart )
Configuring a vRO 8.x Cluster