Compliance Scan in preparation for a VCF 9.X Implementation.

Products

• VCF Operations

Issue/Introduction

• Need to identify Out of Compliance items.
  
  
• Need to resolve prior to installing SDDC Manager and implementing VCF9.1.

Environment

vSphere 8.x

Cause

To address possible issues in Production prior to upgrade to VCF 9.x.

Resolution

Use the following to scan/address issues and plan VCF 9.x upgrade.

• VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics is a self-service tool that analyzes log bundles to detect issues and suggest relevant Knowledge Base articles or steps to remediate in vSphere, vSAN, VMware Cloud Foundation and EUC products. vSphere Administrators can use this tool for troubleshooting issues before contacting Broadcom Support.
  
  
• VCF Diagnostic Tool for vSphere (formerly vSphere Diagnostic Tool) is a multi product diagnostic tool that can be run directly on a vCenter Server appliance. It executes a series of checks on the system configuration and reports user-friendly PASS/FAIL/WARN results for known configuration issues. It also provides information (INFO) messages from certain areas which we hope will make detecting inconsistencies easier. The goal of these tests is to provide information to the user that is hard to gather or otherwise not obvious when troubleshooting an issue.
  
  
• Have you ever wondered if your VMware environment is configured according to VMware best practices? Do you know how your virtual infrastructure resources are allocated and if they are utilized correctly? The VMware Health and Security Toolkit (HST) is a comprehensive application for performing thorough health checks and security assessments of your VMware vSphere 8 and VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x environments.
  
  
• The VCF 9.1 Upgrade Planning Tool provides a custom tailored upgrade planning experience to help customers confidently navigate their VCF upgrade journey.