What’s New in VMware vSAN in VCF 9.1 | This technical session walks through the new capabilities and enhancements introduced in VMware vSAN as part of VCF 9.1.
This technical session walks through the new capabilities and enhancements introduced in VMware vSAN as part of VCF 9.1. The video is organized around the themes that come up most often in customer conversations: lowering storage costs, accommodating the demands of modern applications […]
Technology Overview of VMware vSAN in VCF 9.1
This technical overview walks through VMware vSAN as the storage platform for VMware Cloud Foundation, covering the architecture, key capabilities, and deployment options available with vSAN for VCF 9.1. The video starts with the limitations of traditional three-tier storage architectures, then [..]
Global Deduplication and Enhanced Compression in VMware vSAN in VCF 9.1
vSAN for VCF 9.1 introduces global deduplication along with new compression techniques that can help reduce storage consumption across vSAN ESA clusters. Global deduplication is a cluster-based, post-processing activity that looks for duplicate data across the entire cluster and only runs when […]
Auto RAID and Effective Capacity in VMware vSAN in VCF 9.1
The new Auto RAID feature in vSAN for VCF 9.1 provides a system-managed approach to setting data resilience and space-efficiency parameters based on the characteristics of each vSAN cluster. A single vSAN ESA Auto RAID storage policy can manage clusters of different sizes and topologies […]
VMware by Broadcom: Patching in the AI Era. Why “Waiting” Is No Longer a Strategy | Doug Mehringer
If you’ve been in IT for any length of time, you already know the deal. Patching and upgrading never ends. What is changing is the pace. AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery in a very real way. Bugs are being found faster, more often, and in areas we didn’t even know to look. Work like […]
From Infrastructure to Agents: A Hands-On Guide to Secure Private AI with Broadcom – Part 2
In Part 2 of our blog series, we close the critical lateral security gap that exists inside the k8s cluster, which is not solved by standard perimeter security. We detail how to use VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall, enforced through Antrea CNI, to implement Zero Trust microsegmentation for […]
VCF 9.x Technical Qualification Process for Legacy Intel Processors: Skylake & Cascade Lake | This blog post breaks down the steps and requirements for this process, specifically focusing on VCF 9.x compatibility. – Doug Mehringer
Are you ready for VCF 9.x? As you upgrade your VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) environment, you may be considering utilizing existing hardware. For certain server configurations, particularly those using older Intel Skylake or Cascade Lake processors, a Technical Qualification (TQ) process with […]
Authenticating to the VCF Operations API with vIDM Credentials | #vExpert Brock Peterson
We’ve discussed authenticating with the VCF Operations API a few times before: • Authenticating with the Aria Operations API • Aria Operations API Bearer Token ExpirationI’d like to explore what this looks like when using vIDM credentials. First, you must configure vIDM as an Authentication […]
How Many Users Can Your LLM Server Really Handle?
Deploying large language models (LLMs) in an enterprise environment has transitioned from a proof-of-concept exercise to a rigorous engineering discipline. Yet, accurately predicting the capacity of an inference server under real-world, concurrent load remains a formidable challenge. Infras-[…]
VCF 5.2.2 On VxRail – Mixed Clusters Deployment (VUM and vLCM) in a WLD | #vExpert David Ring
Introduced in VCF 5.2.2 on VxRail, partial Lifecycle Manager conversion enables mixed lifecycle management modes within a single workload domain. This allows one cluster to remain managed by VUM while another is managed using vLCM, giving administrators the flexibility to adopt vLCM […]
AMD Zen4/Zen5 IPMI Thermal Driver for ESX Fling | William Lam
Happy Friday! 🥳 A couple of weeks back, Wenchao (creator of the Realtek Network Driver for ESX Fling) reached out to me to share an exciting development he had been working on. Unlike traditional enterprise hardware, which typically includes an Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) […]
What’s New with VMware vSphere in VCF 9.1
This technical session covers what’s new in vSphere as part of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1. Féidhlim O’Leary walks through lifecycle management, VM management, and Kubernetes enhancements. Dave Morera covers workload acceleration including memory tiering, vMotion encryption offload, NUMA scheduling improvements, and expanded GPU support. Bob Plankers closes with platform security topics. Topics include the upgrade path to vSphere 9.1, vCenter Quick Patch for targeted security patches without service disruption, the new vCenter Resize API and maintenance notification API, vCenter virtual hardware upgrade to version 17, zero-touch provisioning of ESX hosts, expanded ESX Live Patch coverage including TPM-enabled hosts and vSAN daemons,…Read More
Streamline, Simplify and Protect all your AI workloads with VCF 9.1
AI has tremendous potential to transform all enterprises. IDC Predicts AI Solutions & Services will Generate Global Impact of $22.3 Trillion by 20301. With such massive potential, it’s no surprise that enterprises are eager to leverage AI to boost productivity across every aspect of their […]
Announcing VCF 9.1: Modern Private Cloud Built for Efficiency and Resilience | Infrastructure teams face a paradox: environments are growing more complex while budgets and headcount remain flat. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 will address this head-on with innovations that improve efficiency, accelerate application delivery, and strengthen cyber resilience while maintaining operational simplicity.
Infrastructure teams face a paradox: environments are growing more complex while budgets and headcount remain flat. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 will address this head-on with innovations that improve efficiency, accelerate application delivery, and strengthen cyber resilience while […]
Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation Edge 9.1: A Scalable, Autonomous Edge Platform
Traditional infrastructure was never designed for edge scale. Managing hundreds to thousands of distributed sites with fragmented stacks, siloed tools, and manual processes creates operational risk, inconsistent security, and costly site-by-site management. For many organizations, this means […]
Introducing VCF 9.1: Built for Efficiency and Resilience | VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 is here, and in this kickoff episode, Pete and John sit down with Paul Turner, VP of Products for VMware Cloud Foundation, to set the stage for what this release really means.
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 is here, and in this kickoff episode, Pete and John sit down with Paul Turner, VP of Products for VMware Cloud Foundation, to set the stage for what this release really means.
Inside VCF 9.1: Platform, Lifecycle, and What’s Different Now | VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 introduces a wide range of improvements across the platform, and in this episode, Pete and John sit down with William Lam to walk through the updates that matter most to practitioners.
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 introduces a wide range of improvements across the platform, and in this episode, Pete and John sit down with William Lam to walk through the updates that matter most to practitioners. From zero-touch provisioning and faster patching to fleet management, real-time […]
VCF 9.1: From AI Hype to Production Reality | AI is easy to demo but hard to run in production. In this episode, Pete and John sit down with Chris Wolf, Global Head of AI at Broadcom, to break down what it actually takes to operationalize AI.
AI is easy to demo but hard to run in production. In this episode, Pete and John sit down with Chris Wolf, Global Head of AI at Broadcom, to break down what it actually takes to operationalize AI. They explore how customers are moving from experimentation to real-world Private AI on VMware Cloud …Read More
VCF9 Automation – Part 1: Provider Networking, Edge Clusters, VPC Foundations and Supervisor cluster | Armando Pacchioni
After spending some time exploring all the capabilities of VCF Automation and having worked for many years with VMware Cloud Director, I can confidently say that there are significant architectural differences between the two products. As many of you already know, VCF Automation is […]
Breaking ELM Between Two VCF Instances to Restore a Supported Upgrade Path | #vExpert Chris Kitchens
A real-world VMware Cloud Foundation field note on breaking a cross-instance Enhanced Linked Mode topology.
