Learn how VMware Cloud Foundation simplifies and automates operations of your SDDC

Deploying VMware Cloud Foundation using the Public APIs allows customers to automate tasks, with PowerVCF the capabilities are extended to PowerShell / PowerCLI experts. As part of an internal project I’ve been working on recently we have been using PowerShell to help automate some of the repetitive steps whilst performing validation and testing of VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Validated Design.

As of Cloud Foundation version 4.1, the edge cluster automation capabilities of the SDDC manager does not include the ability to remove a previously deployed Edge Cluster. To fill this gap, VMware provides a separate "edge cleaner" tool as part of the VMware Knowledge Base Article: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/78635. This post will look at the edge cleaner tool and how it is used to remove previously deployed NSX Edge Clusters from a Cloud Foundation domain