Raise your hand if this sounds familiar:
You’re mid-upgrade, vCenter’s already in maintenance mode, and someone pings, “Are we sure NSX-T’s L2 Bridge isn’t deprecated in this build?” cue frantic PDF spelunking and Slack archaeology.
To prevent that chaos, we've bundled everything you’ll need for a clean VCF 9 launch into a single reference post:
- Build Matrix – one glance tells you which vSphere/vSAN/NSX bits ship in every VCF and VVF bundle.
- Product-Support Notes – quick bullets on what’s fully supported, what’s tech preview, and where VMware hides the soft boundaries.
- Deprecation & End-of-Support Warnings – so you don’t discover EoS dates halfway through a change window.
- Known-Issue Rundown – component-by-component caveats (because “read the release notes” at 2 a.m. never ends well).
- Enablement Fast-Links – direct pointers to blogs, webinars, HOLs, upgrade guides, interoperability matrix, ports & protocols, all vetted, no dead URLs.
Bookmark it, fork it into your team wiki, or laminate it for the war-room wall. Next time the upgrade clock starts ticking, you’ll have the answers before the questions even land.
Happy building, and may your cert rotations always finish before coffee gets cold. 🖖
VCF Component | VVF Component | Build Number |
VCF Installer | Yes | 24755599 |
VMware ESX | Yes | 24755599 |
VMware vCenter | Yes | 24755599 |
VMware vSAN ESA Witness | Yes | 24755599 |
VMware vSAN File Services | Yes | 24755599 |
VMware vSAN OSA Witness | Yes | 24755599 |
VMware NSX | 24755599 | |
SDDC Manager | 24755599 | |
VCF Operations | Yes | 24755599 |
VCF Operations Orchestrator | Yes | 24755599 |
VCF Operations Collector | Yes | 24755599 |
VCF Operations Fleet Management | 24755599 | |
VCF Operations for Logs | Yes | 24755599 |
VCF Operations for Networks | 24755599 | |
VCF Operations HCX | 24755599 | |
VCF Automation | 24755599 | |
VMware vSphere Supervisor | Yes | 24755599 |
VMware Kubernetes Backup & Recovery Service | Yes | 24755599 |
VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service | Yes | 24755599 |
VMware Remote Console | Yes | 24755599 |
VMware Tools Async Release | Yes | 24755599 |
VCF Download Tool | 24755599 | |
VCF Operations Identity Broker | 24755599 |
The following VMware Cloud Foundation add-ons are part of the Bill of Materials but are not part of the VCF SKU.
VMware Private AI | 24755599 | |
VMware Data Services Manager | 24755599 | |
VMware Live Recovery | Yes | 24755599 |
Product Support Notes:
Deprecation Notes / End of Support Notes:
Known Issues:
See known issues for VCF components in version 9.0:
Enablement Links:
- VCF News Release: [Click Here]
- VCF Blogs: [Click Here]
- VCF Webinars: [Click Here]
- VCF Hands-On Labs: [Click Here]
- Release Notes: [Click Here]
- Interoperability Matrix: [Click Here]
- Upgrade Path: [Click Here]
- Ports & Protocols: [Click Here]
VMware Discovery by Hands-on-Lab: [Click Here]