vSphere 8.x to VCF 9.1 The Simple Way
I don't want all the automation and cloud and AI crap Broadcom charges for. Not every organization is spinning up and down dozens of systems a day, we're very static and our systems are still for the most part pets not cattle. Give me vCenter, a few ESXi hosts and we run NSX but only for firewall no SDN routing at all. We don't run an edge gateway today for example, just DFW. Our stuff is pretty static we don't need automation and we don't need cloud stuff.
I want what I have today, essentially. I keep seeing in comments all I really need to do is add VMware ops for licensing but I can't seem to find a simple support document around this. Everything I keep reading states I'll need multiple components running in HA running on a dedicated compute cluster. I don't think it's an option for us to run in an unsupported config.
Where can I find official documentation saying what people on social media like Reddit are saying, just deploy a license server and run as-is today.
The new planner (Neat tool!) says I need an ops node, cloud proxy, a license node and at least four management services nodes to get up and running on my simple config. I keep reading about how all that needs it's own compute cluster. I don't want that. I just want vCenter, ESXi and a NSX manager to support DFW.