VCF Upgrade Planner
Scope
Environment
Goal & Topology
Upgrade Plan
âšī¸ Select the products in your current environment. vCenter and either ESX or VxRail must be selected to proceed
Upgrade to vSphere 9.1 (No VCF Fleet)
vSphere Foundation (VVF) provides vSphere, vCenter, Tanzu, and Aria Operations with/without deploying VCF Management Services or a VCF Fleet.
Upgrade vSphere & Aria/VCF Operations now, upgrade to VCF at later point
Create New VCF 9.1 Fleet
VCF Fleet is a central multi-instance VCF deployment model managed together under unified operations.
Converge your existing vSphere environment into new VCF Fleet
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Expand existing VCF Fleet with new 9.1 VCF Instance
VCF Instance is a software-defined data center deployment containing its own Management Domain and optional Workload Domains.
Converge your vSphere environment into a new VCF instance with your existing VCF Fleet.
Expand existing VCF Fleet with new VCF Workload Domain
Workload Domain a logical grouping of physical servers, storage, and network resources managed together as a single unit to run business applications.
Import your vSphere environment into a new VCF Workload Domain with your existing VCF Fleet
Create New VCF 9.1 Fleet
Converge your existing vSphere environment into new VCF Fleet
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Expand existing VCF Fleet with upgrade of existing VCF Instance
VCF Instance is a standalone software-defined data center deployment containing its Management Domain.
Upgrade second VCF Instance into your existing VCF Fleet.
Upgrade VCF Workload Domain
Workload Domain is a policy-driven resource pool created within a VCF instance to host tenant workloads.
Upgrade an existing workload domain within VCF instance.