VCF High Availability, Explained as a Human Body | Which VCF components come as a pair and which do not, why a cluster is three nodes when a body gets by with two kidneys, and what vSphere HA is really doing underneath all of it. – #vExpert Arun Nukula
Which VCF components come as a pair and which do not, why a cluster is three nodes when a body gets by with two kidneys, and what vSphere HA is really doing underneath all of it.
Major Enhancements to VCF 9.1 Upgrade Planner Tool | William Lam
The VCF Upgrade Planner was launched back in May and the reception and feedback from our users has been incredible. With over 90,000 visits in just a few months, it has quickly become an essential resource for helping customers and partners create a custom-tailored runbook for their specific […]
Setting up an AVI cluster for the VI Workload Domain on VCF 9.1 – #vExpert Anuj Jain
Setting up an AVI cluster in the VI Workload Domain on VCF 9.1 This blog continues the blog “https://vxlearners.com/2026/07/12/2037/”. In that blog, we saw how to deploy AVI controllers using SDDC Manager. However, in version 9.1, this functionality moved from SDDC Manager to VCF Operations. […]
Heading to VCF 9? Move vSphere Replication to Protection and Recovery – Gustavo Novello
Move standalone vSphere Replication to VCF Protection and Recovery 9.1 while still on vSphere 8.0 U3: prerequisites, Enhanced Replication and convergence.
Applying VCF 9.1.1 Express Patch 2 to your VCF Management Services – #vExpert Brock Peterson
We recently released VCF 9.1.1 Express Patch 2, Release Notes can be found here. For a review of VCF Express Patches check out William Lam’s blog on the topic here. There is a nice KB available here as well, which details VCF versioning. […]
Streamline Your VMware Cloud Foundation Upgrades: What’s New in the VCF 9.1 Planner Tool
Upgrading a full-stack private cloud environment is no small feat. For VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) administrators, aligning component compatibility, sequencing updates, and minimizing downtime can feel like solving a moving puzzle. Fortunately, the VCF Upgrade Planner, launched earlier this […]
New Whitepaper: Architecting a Governed, Multi-Tenant Private AI Cloud with VCF 9
Multi-Tenancy Is the Engine of the Modern Private AI Cloud The private cloud is undergoing a profound transformation. Today’s enterprise IT organizations are tasked with supporting diverse, resource-intensive workloads, spanning AI, Kubernetes / containers, and virtual machines, on shared […]
VMSA-2026-0008.1: Critical Brotli RCE in SDDC Manager and how to mitigate it – #vExpert Piotr Tarnawski
If you run VMware Cloud Foundation, check your SDDC Manager version and get the appropriate workaround into your change process. Broadcom’s VMSA-2026-0008.1 addresses CVE-2026-111497, a remote code execution vulnerability in the Node.js Brotli decoder used by SDDC Manager.
What stood out at #VMwareExplore 2026?
From AI-assisted operations and NVMe memory tiering to performance and security innovations, Virtualization Review’s Tom Fenton shares his key takeaways.
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Tom Fenton recaps VMware Explore 2026, including VCF 9.1 updates, AI operations, TrueSource, customer deployments, certification changes, and the conference’s new Las Vegas venue for 2027.
Why vSAN ESA Only Supports NVMe Solid State Storage Devices
Why can’t spinning disks be used with vSAN ESA? The recent hardware shortages with servers and storage have encouraged customers to look at every conceivable way to lower costs, and this question occasionally comes up in that effort. Some customers contend that their application demands […]
Eleven Management Packs in One Day: What VCF Operations Just Became | Eleven at once is unusual. Management packs normally trickle out on their own schedules. A simultaneous release of that size usually means something changed underneath them all, and in this case something did. – #vExpert Mohammad “Sarge” Siddiqui
On 3 September 2026, the same day VCF 9.1.1.0 shipped, eleven VCF Management Packs reached general availability at version 9.1.1.0. Eleven at once is unusual. Management packs normally trickle out on their own schedules. A simultaneous release of that size usually means something changed […]
VCF Logs Harvester Part 2 – #vExpert Brock Peterson
The previous blog detailed harvesting log events from VCF Operations for Logs via the VCF Logs Harvester tool. That first release was command line only, but a teammate of mine (Scott Bowe) suggested a GUI for those that are more visually included, so here you go. All the details are in […]
VCF Operations for Logs Harvester – #vExpert Brock Peterson
There are times I wanted to search log events in VCF Operations for Logs by shortname/FQDN, even though the log events contained only IPs, here’s what I did. All testing and screenshots in this blog are against VCF Operations for Logs 9.0.2 or lower.I extracted log events via the /api/v2/events [..]
Automate Inventory of vSphere Supervisor Clusters & vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) Guest Clusters
As customers begin planning their upgrade to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, vSphere Supervisor and vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) have been coming up more frequently in upgrade discussions. Before you can determine the applicable upgrade path, it is important to understand what has […]
VMware License Hub 2.0 is here! Learn how to secure the components used in this new mandatory license management methodology.
VMware vDefend 9.1 for VMware Cloud Foundation \\\(VCF\\\) private cloud and VMware Avi 32.1.1 have introduced a new licensing management methodology, with digitally signed license subscription files. This method is now mandatory for proper endpoint licensing and trust onboarding for VMware vDefend and VMware Avi Load Balancer.
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VMware vDefend 9.1 for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud and VMware Avi 32.1.1 introduces a new licensing management methodology, replacing the 25-character license keys with digitally-signed license subscription files. This method is now mandatory for proper endpoint licensing and […]
VCF Management Services Models, Explained | #vExpert Arun Nukula
Deploying a VCF instance asks you two questions about management services: which components run here, and how is the cluster built. The documentation answers both in two tables and two diagrams. Here is the same thing as a story.
VPC packet flow in VCF 9.1- all in one drawn out – #vExpert Maciej Losek, vconfig.pl
Every time I explain VPCs in VCF 9.1, someone asks the same thing: ‘where does the packet actually go?’ So I drew it out, from the VCF Automation namespace all the way down to the vmnic and the ToR. There may already be plenty of posts like this, but I decided to put everything together […]
Native Object Storage Use-Cases – Cormac Hogan
While there are many use-cases for object storage, I wanted to create a short post to highlight some of the use-cases that I have been trying out in my own lab. Two of the use cases are for backup and logs, and another is as an S3 Foreign Data Wrapper (FDW) for Greenplum databases. In the first [..]
Upgrading VCF Operations for Networks to 9.1.1 Step by Step | A step-by-step walkthrough of upgrading VCF Operations for Networks from 9.1.0.0200 to 9.1.1 through VCF Operations, including backups, prechecks, workflow monitoring, and version verification. – #vExpert Cosmin Trif
A step-by-step walkthrough of upgrading VCF Operations for Networks from 9.1.0.0200 to 9.1.1 through VCF Operations, including backups, prechecks, workflow monitoring, and version verification.
VxVerify: “DO host queries failed” | VxVerify fails with “DO host queries failed” on VxRail 8.0.x? The cause was the wrong Python interpreter. Run the 4.x build with python 3.11. – #vExpert H. Cemre Günay, irgNET
VxVerify fails with “DO host queries failed” on VxRail 8.0.x? The cause was the wrong Python interpreter. Run the 4.x build with python 3.11.
