How to Converge a VMware vSphere Environment to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0

Path 1: Converting a vSphere instance Step 1: Assess, Check Prerequisites, and Remediate Core Components Step 2: Perform Upgrades to Appliances and ESX Hosts Step 3: Convert vSphere to VCF Path 2: Importing a vSphere instance into a VCF Fleet Step 1: Assess, Check Prerequisites, and Remediate Core Components Step 2: Remediate Any Errors Step 3: Import vSphere to VCF Need Help? Discover more from VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog Related Articles How to Converge a VMware vSphere Environment to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 83 – Designing Developer-Loved Platforms: What is an IDP? A Perfect Match for Big Data: VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service and Tanzu Greenplum Converging your VMware vSphere environment into VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is a strategic move that shifts your infrastructure from a collection of managed silos to a unified private cloud. Depending on your current environment, there are two primary paths. Path 1: Convert your vSphere environment into a new VCF fleet using the VCF Installer. This approach is typically used if there is no VCF instance deployed already, but there are existing VMware Cloud Foundation Operations, VMware vCenter, and VMware NSX instances in the environment. These existing components are used to instantiate the VCF management domain, deploying any components which are missing. Path 2: Import your vSphere environment into an existing VCF fleet using VCF Operations. This approach is used when you already have a VCF instance deployed and want to manage a vSphere instance centrally as an additional VI workload domain in VCF. This will also deploy any missing components, such as NSX, if they have not been instantiated yet while the vSphere instance is being imported. The exact steps you need to take depend on the version of vSphere and/or VCF that is being used in the environment. Here are the typical processes VCF Professional Services uses to convert or import vSphere to VCF. This is the typical starting point for many vSphere customers who do not want to do a fresh deployment of VCF 9.0, where there is no existing VCF instance already deployed in the environment. This allows for the existing components in the environment to be used as starting blocks for a VCF management domain.