We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Holodeck 9.0.1.0, building upon the success of Holodeck 9.0 to further empower your teams in deploying standardized and automated nested VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments!

A sincere thank you from the team to the thousands of folks that downloaded and tried out Holodeck 9.0, we appreciate the engagement and feedback.  It’s helped us further shape and grow the tool!

In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, the ability to rapidly and reliably test new technical capabilities is paramount. While deploying nested VCF environments has always been possible, it often involves time-consuming manual configurations and significant hardware overhead. Holodeck continues to change the game by providing a self-contained, automated, and repeatable solution that dramatically reduces complexity and resource requirements, now with even more robust features. Some highlights:

• New-HoloDeckConfig: This cmdlet now validates the integrity of the config.json template. If the template file’s integrity does not match, the user will see a warning before a new config file is created for the Holodeck instance. Ideally, users are not expected to modify the template config file; however, there may be edge cases where a customer chooses to do so. In such cases, the warning ensures they are informed of the change.
• Remove-HoloDeckInstance: This cmdlet has a new optional parameter to support the automated deletion of the holodeck instance. If not specified, then the instance ID will be captured from the global config file. Also, the prompt for user confirmation is removed, instead, the user will have 15 seconds to abort the operation by pressing any key on the console.
• Multi-Version Support: Holodeck now provides comprehensive support for VCF 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 9.0.0.0, and 9.0.1.0, offering unparalleled flexibility in testing and deployment across various VCF versions.
• Select Unique Port Group for Dual Site Deployment: For dual-site deployments, Holodeck allows the selection of a unique port group during prechecks for each site, preventing potential conflicts and enhancing the reliability of your multi-site configurations.

Holodeck is your ideal solution for gaining a deeper understanding of how VCF functions. Holodeck 9.0.1.0 supports deploying both VCF 5.2.x and VCF 9.0.x environments, offering even more versatility and robust features for your testing and training needs.

Note: The use of Holodeck and the Offline depot appliance will require a download token which is produced with entitlement to VCF through one of the following ways: purchased, trial, NFR, pass the VCP, or pass the VCP + VMUG advantage.

Updated docs and the download details are here: https://vmware.github.io/Holodeck/downloads/
Release notes: https://vmware.github.io/Holodeck/release_notes/

Project Contributors

Ben Sier, Jatin Purohit, Dhruv Tyagi, Nikhil M Kulkarni, Tom Stephens, Kevin Tebear