Tag: VCF Automation

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The VMware Cloud Director API for Day-to-Day Operations: The Calls You Will Actually Use

Authentication, the query service, deploying from template, power and undeploy, snapshots, disks and task handling - with notes on what carries forward into VCF Automation.

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The Complete VCD to VCF Automation Migration Checklist: 72 Checks for Service Providers

Seventy-two checks across assessment, tenant discovery, construct mapping, platform build, cutover, parallel running and decommissioning - in the order the work actually happens.

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VMware Cloud Director 10.x vs VCF Automation 9.1: A Feature Parity Comparison for Service Providers

A side-by-side comparison of Cloud Director 10.x and VCF Automation 9.1 across tenancy, networking, storage, catalogues, Kubernetes, identity, metering and operations - including where Cloud Director still wins.

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VMware Cloud Director Migration Services: Scoping and Pricing a VCD to VCF Automation Programme

What a provider migration engagement actually contains, why tenant count predicts cost better than workload count, and how to read a proposal before you sign it.

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Migrating Tenants Off Cloud Director Without Losing Them: Communication, Cutover and Parallel Running

The half of a VCD to VCF Automation migration that is not infrastructure: telling customers, sequencing them, running two platforms and getting the billing right.

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Using the VCF Automation Migration Tool: Environment Assessment Through to Tenant Cutover

The supported migration path from Cloud Director to VCF Automation: the assessment stage, the Migration Service, workload mobility by version, and what to have ready at each gate.

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VMware Cloud Director to VCF Automation Migration: The Complete Guide for Service Providers

The platform your provider business runs on is being replaced. What VCF Automation is, how the migration path works, what it does to your tenants, and how to phase a programme that cannot fail quietly.

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VMware Cloud Director End of Life: What the VCF Automation Transition Means for Your Provider Business

How long do you have? The Cloud Director lifecycle position, what 10.6.2 actually changes, and how much runway a provider migration to VCF Automation really needs.

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VCF Automation for VMware Cloud Director Administrators: What Carries Over and What Does Not

Half of VCF Automation will feel like coming home. The other half is a different product entirely - and it is the half your tenants use.

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Mapping VMware Cloud Director Constructs to VCF Automation: Org VDCs, Edge Gateways, Catalogs and IP Spaces

The mapping that causes the most friction in a VCD to VCFA migration, with the design decision each construct forces and the order to make them in.