Month: November 2025

Upgrade vSphere Supervisor

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The vSphere Supervisor is the built-in control plane of vSphere that brings Kubernetes and modern application management directly into the hypervisor. It provides a consistent API and desired-state management model, allowing you to run and manage Kubernetes clusters, vSphere Pods, and virtual machines side by side on the same infrastructure.

With Supervisor, vSphere becomes an extensible platform — developers and operators can use vSphere Namespaces to define resource boundaries and enable self-service provisioning of modern infrastructure services in a secure and controlled way.

Keeping Supervisor up to date ensures compatibility with newer ESX and NSX versions as well as the latest API schemas used by Kubernetes clusters and DevOps tools.

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VCF 9.0 to 9.0.1 Upgrade – Part 2

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In the first part of the VCF 9.0 upgrade series, I walked through the process of upgrading the VCF Management Components — beginning with the Fleet Management Appliance and continuing through Aria Operations, Automation, Logs, and Network.
In this second part, we’ll shift focus to the core components of VMware Cloud Foundation, which form the backbone of every workload domain: vCenter Server, ESX hosts, NSX Managers, and Edge Clusters.

Since the core components have not yet been upgraded, the versions of the vCenter Server, NSX, and ESX hosts remain at 9.0.0, as shown in the screenshot below.

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