VMware vSphere Foundation 9 – Greenfield Deploy – ESXi install, vCenter 9, VCF Operations and Logs < 2hrs!

For our next trick, let’s deploy VMware vSphere Foundation 9 in a “Greenfield” environment!

Here are the steps we will follow.

PowerCLI Deployment of ESXi Hosts
VCF Installer Walkthrough and Validation
VMware vSphere Foundation Deployment
vCenter Deployment (processing)
Configure Identity Source in vCenter 9 while VCF Operations is deploying
Onboard VCF Operations and configure a vCenter, authentication source and access control
Deploy VCF Operations for Logs
VCF Operations for Logs – Configure New Deployment
Integrate VCF Operations for Logs with VCF Operations

If you would like to watch this occur in less than 2 hours at real-time speed, please watch the YouTube recording here: https://youtu.be/uUp3fXpGODc

I will be adding screen shots to this post in the next few days, along with links to the PowerCLI script in my GitHub.

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