By default the VCF-Installer only supports https requests. But certs are a pain in a homelab so i downgrade my vcf-installer to support http 🙂 william lam alread described that for 9.0: https://williamlam.com/2025/06/using-http-with-vcf-9-0-installer-for-offline-depot.html and we are now going to do the same for 9.1 connect to your vcf-installer via ssh as vcf and then su…
Category: VCF9
Register your VCF Offline Depot with the VCF Business Console and download the Binaries
With VCF 9.1 you need to register your VCF Offline depot with the VCF Business website: To do that download the vcf-download-tool in version 9.1 and run it with the following command: In the VCF Business Console you will be able to manually register your software depot: And then you will receive an activation code…
Migrate Virtual Machines from Hyper V to VCF 9 with HCX
Something which doesn’t seem to happen so often is the migration of virtual machines from other Hypervisors to VCF. Granted, for some Windows Services like Active-Directory, File-Services or VDI Services you can simply deploy another Windows Server, make it a replica and then decomission your old Server. But even so, there are some other applications…
vCenter 9 Deployment
Let’s see what has changed in the Deployment process.We’re starting with the vCenter Setup. Requirements as always, preparing vCenter should come with the following preparations: Typcally the GUI-installer is still there but the color changed a little bit 🙂 T-shirt sizes for the deployments are still the same Selection of Datastores in my Homelab but…