Upgrading VCF Management Components to 9.1.1 All in One
With VCF 9.1.1 released on September 3, 2026, I wanted to bring the management-service upgrades together in one place. I already wrote a separate walkthrough for each component, but following thirteen individual posts is not how I want to plan a maintenance window. This post is the all-in-one runbook I would use for a VCF 9.1.0.x fleet. VCF 9.1.1 is a maintenance release with an updated Bill of Materials (BOM). The official release notes say that a 9.1.0.x environment starts by patching Fleet Lifecycle. After that, the remaining components follow a small set of dependencies. The release notes also link to the VCF Upgrade Planning Tool, which is useful when the source environment is older than 9.1.0.x. ...