Found in the vSphere Client at Configure > Configuration > Quickstart, this guided workflow brings ESX 9.0+ hosts into a new cluster and gives them a uniform setup for networking, cluster services and vSAN.
Also called Quickstart.
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Terms in this definition
- vSphere Client
vCenter's built-in HTML5 browser interface and the main tool for administering vCenter, its hosts and virtual machines.
- Foundry workflows
Preview Foundry feature that orchestrates agents and logic in a fixed, declarative order, supporting variables, if/else branches and human-in-the-loop steps. Workflows are being retired on 1 December 2026 and Agent Framework replaces them.
- ESX
VMware's bare-metal hypervisor, installed on each host in a VCF fleet. Up to version 9.0 it was known as ESXi.
- Iceberg reads
A setting on a Delta table that writes Iceberg metadata as well, letting Iceberg clients query the data while all writes still go through Delta.
- vSAN
VMware's software-defined storage, which combines local devices across a cluster's ESX hosts into one shared datastore. Available as OSA or ESA, VCF can use it as principal storage.