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VCF 9.1 - Quick Tip: Uninstalling Optional Day-N Components

06.11.2026 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

There are a number of new capabilities in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 that can be deployed as Day-N operations after the initial VCF Fleet deployment, including:

  • Integrated Log Management (formally VCF Operations for Logs) directly within VCF Operations
  • Real-time Metrics that can provide up to 2 seconds of granularity
  • Network visibility and diagnostics with VCF Operations for Networks (VON)
  • Modern Self-Service with Multi-Tenancy using VCF Automation (VCFA)


If you need to uninstall one of these Day-N components, there is currently not a UI workflow within the VCF LCM UI. With that said, we do have a KB article that provides a clean up script that can also be used to uninstall these optional VCF components.

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Categories // VCF Automation, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere Foundation Tags // VCF 9.1

VCF 9.1 - Deploying VCF Operations for Networks to non-Management Network

06.10.2026 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

Thanks to a fellow colleague, Abdullah, who reached out after coming across my blog posts (HERE and HERE) on how to deploy VCF Management Services (VCFMS) and VCF Automation (VCFA) on a non-management network as part of a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 upgrade. Using the same techniques, he was able to successfully deploy VCF Operations for Networks on a non-management network, which I thought was worth sharing an updated script with the broader community.

Similar to VCFMS and VCFA, VCF Operations for Networks (VON) is deployed using the Fleet Lifecycle Management (LCM) workflow in VCF Operations and, by default, both the platform and collector nodes are deployed onto the management network.


As you have probably guessed, we can use the Fleet LCM API to override this behavior and deploy VON on a non-management network!

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Categories // VMware Cloud Foundation Tags // VCF 9.1

VCF 9.1 - Quick Tip: Forgot to Retrieve Auto-Generated Passwords from VCF Installer?

06.09.2026 by William Lam // 2 Comments

After completing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 deployment using the VCF Installer UI, users can view and download the auto-generated passwords for all VCF components before exiting the deployment workflow and logging into VCF Operations.


What if you forgot to make a note of the passwords? 😅

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Categories // VMware Cloud Foundation Tags // VCF 9.1

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