Upgrade to VCF 9.0 from VCF 5.2.x

This main blog will link to multiple smaller blogs that describes the way to go to successfully upgrade VCF VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2.2.1 to VCF 9.0.

I will try to go through the prerequisites and also the requirements inorder to end up with a brand new version of VCF. In the last blog of the series I will try to showcase some of the new operational aspects as-well as how going from a Cloud Provider based environment with Cloud Director over to the new Multi-tenancy capable VCF Private Cloud may help you and achieve even greater potential.

The steps are listed below:

• Setup a VCF 9.0 Offline Depot and VCF Download Tool (VCFDT)
• Prepare VCF 9.0 Core Components for Upgrade
• Upgrade SDDC Manager to 9.0
• Upgrade NSX to 9
• Upgrade vCenter to 9
• Upgrade ESXi 8.0 U3 to ESX 9 on Supermicro mini Superserver SYS-E300-9D-4CN8
• VCF 9.0 Operational aspects and Multi-Tenancy
• VCF 9.0 Troubleshooting