VCF 9 Lifecycle Management with VCF Operations: Unified Upgrades and Fleet Management

VCF 9 Lifecycle Management with VCF Operations: Unified Upgrades and Fleet Management

Introduction Managing the lifecycle of a VMware Cloud Foundation environment has historically required coordinated upgrades across multiple products, ESX, vCenter, NSX, and vSAN, with complex compatibility matrices and manual orchestration. VCF 9 changes this experience by moving lifecycle management into VCF Operations: the SDDC Manager UI is deprecated, and its LCM workflows now live in VCF Operations Fleet Management, giving you a single place to plan and orchestrate upgrades across every domain. ...

July 14, 2026 · Mohamed Rabiee