A blue-to-green Avi move that converges 67 virtual services and 285 objects per site onto two new sites from one YAML file, builds a GSLB service for every application, never writes to blue or to DNS, and leaves a flip list and a one-name lever for the cutover.
A Global Manager to Global Manager firewall move should stage every policy disabled. API acceptance is not proof the rule is realized, and the tool refuses to recreate network objects it does not own.
Two VCF sites, two Avi controllers, one GSLB service. The build is a sequence of gates: a dedicated account, a DNS engine group, a DNS virtual service per site, a leader, a follower, a test name, then proof from outside either UI. What the proof found, how a name resolves, and what failover costs in seconds.
In VCF 9.1, regional Harbor is the registry Supervisor services and VKS add-ons pull from. A region teardown can leave it mid-removal. Retrying the uninstall does not bring the cluster back.
A VCF on VxRail estate that has gone quiet does not need a credential rotation as the first move. It needs a fixed order of health checks, and a depot check that now applies even when the cluster is online.
After the management domain reached VCF 9.1.1, the workload domains showed every component on target and greyed out the plan buttons. The domain was not upgraded. A customized BOM had pinned it.
Why my Harbor kit for air-gapped VKS checks everything outside, carries one transfer that proves itself, and asks instead of making you edit YAML inside. What changed in 1.4, and what bit me getting there.
The Cisco ACI plugin for vRealize was validated through 8.4 and never caught up to Aria Automation 8.18. Here is the Orchestrator integration that places a VM in an EPG anyway.
Open-source tooling to capture an Aria Automation 8.18 environment as YAML and rebuild it on VCF Automation 9.1, with a placement check that catches API calls returning HTTP 200 and doing nothing.
HPE Synergy SAN-boot blades show zero storage at install. Build a custom ESXi 9.0.2 ISO merging the VMware base depot with the HPE Synergy AddOn via PowerCLI Image Builder.
