vLLM metrics into VCF Operations, part 1: don’t ship the histogram
30 September 2026 · 6 min · Adam Stretton
Telegraf on VKS: the dependency that isn’t in the README
23 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 13 min · Adam Stretton
Windows Server 2025 via Aria Automation, part 3: validation as a product, and the details that hurt
17 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 7 min · Adam Stretton
Windows Server 2025 via Aria Automation, part 2: a state machine that survives four reboots
17 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 6 min · Adam Stretton
Windows Server 2025 via Aria Automation, part 1: the pipeline
17 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 11 min · Adam Stretton
Telegraf on Windows Server 2025: unsupported, works anyway
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 6 min · Adam Stretton
fluent-bit two ways: VKS add-on and Windows agent, one log endpoint
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 7 min · Adam Stretton
Seven demo apps, one request: deploying a showcase stack via VCF Automation
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 5 min · Adam Stretton
What’s a VPC? Let Pac-Man explain
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 6 min · Adam Stretton
Nested ESXi inside an NSX VPC: the trunk-subnet design
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 7 min · Adam Stretton
The load balancer that must exist before the namespace
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 5 min · Adam Stretton
Three datacenters, one IP plan: identical isolated pods with NSX VPCs
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 5 min · Adam Stretton
Shared services for isolated tenants: PrivateTGW subnets
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 5 min · Adam Stretton
A datacenter in a catalog tile: nested ESXi pods via VCF Automation All Apps
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 7 min · Adam Stretton
Dual-NIC nested hosts: what redundancy means when the fabric is virtual
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 6 min · Adam Stretton
Our VPC subnets have no DHCP — and that’s fine
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 5 min · Adam Stretton
Blueprinting the supervisor: seven CCI blueprint gotchas
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 5 min · Adam Stretton
VM Apps vs All Apps: a field comparison of VCF Automation’s two provisioning models
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 7 min · Adam Stretton
One VKS cluster, two ways: kubectl vs VCF Automation All Apps
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 5 min · Adam Stretton
One catalog item, one VCF instance: building a lab factory
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 7 min · Adam Stretton
validateOnly everywhere: plan mode for infrastructure
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 4 min · Adam Stretton
Porting a PowerShell deploy script to a catalog item: the mapping table is the post
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 6 min · Adam Stretton
Driving the VCF Installer API from vRO: generate, validate, start, walk away
16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 7 min · Adam Stretton