VCF 9.1

If you’ve been working with VCF Operations 9.1, you may have noticed that on the Build > Lifecycle > VCF Management > Components page, manually-added components such as VCF Operations for Networks, Log Management, Real-Time Metrics or VCF Automation no longer have a “Delete” option available in the UI. In VCF Operations 9.0, this was possible on the Fleet Management > Lifecycle > Components page by clicking the three vertical dots next to a component and selecting Delete. That option is gone in 9.1. ...

In the previous post, I covered how to license a standalone ESX 9.0 host by importing a private license file directly on the host with esxcli. That workflow was straightforward: generate a keypair, grab a license file from the portal, scp both files to the host, run two esxcli commands, done. VCF 9.1 changes everything. Starting with 9.1, you cannot generate individual ESX host licenses from the VCF Business Services console and apply them directly. Instead, Broadcom introduced a License Server appliance — a small OVA that sits between the portal and your hosts. You import your private license file into the License Server, and the License Server issues host-scoped licenses to each ESX host via API. ...