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We are incredibly proud to announce that VMware Avi Load Balancer have been selected as a finalist for the SiliconANGLE Media’s 2026 Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards in the Most Innovative Cloud Application Modernization Platform category.

Brought to you by theCUBE, these awards are designed to recognize the world’s most forward-thinking companies and their breakthrough technologies.

Driving Innovation: VMware Avi Load Balancer…

We are incredibly proud to announce that VMware Avi Load Balancer have been selected as a finalist for the SiliconANGLE Media’s 2026 Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards in the Most Innovative Cloud Application Modernization Platform category. Brought to you by theCUBE, these awards are designed to […]

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Fixing VCenter Identity Provider Error in VCF 9.0.1 – #vExpert Pradeep Adapa

Fixing vCenter Identity Provider Error in VCF…

I recently came across an issue in our VCF 9.0.1 lab where in the management domain vcenter had an issue with its identity provider and the exact error was “An error occurred while fetching identity providers. Please try again later. If problem persists, contact your administrator.” The error […]

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Bypassing the ESX Tunnel Endpoint (TEP) 1600 MTU Check in the VCF Installer

Bypassing the ESX Tunnel Endpoint (TEP) 1600…

Before deploying a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 environment, the VCF Installer performs a number of validations including network MTU. The minimum MTU that is required to deploy VCF is 1600, which is used for the Tunnel Endpoint (TEP) for NSX traffic between your ESX hosts. For most […]

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VMware Avi Load Balancer Conversion Tool | Legacy LB to Avi Conversion Tool simplifies and speeds up Avi deployments in brownfield environments, we are announcing the Avi Conversion Tool.

VMware Avi Load Balancer Conversion Tool

Legacy LB to Avi Conversion Tool simplifies and speeds up Avi deployments in brownfield environments, we are announcing the Avi Conversion Tool. The tool: […]

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VCF Fleet Deployment – Day 2 | In the previous posts, we tackled the core VCF components. Now, it’s time to move the management plane into its own network—a key best practice for a smooth-running VCF environment! We’re doing all this magic straight from the SDDC Manager. – Devi Injamuri, Client Services Consultant at Broadcom

VCF Fleet Deployment – Day 2

In the previous posts, we tackled the core VCF components. Now, it’s time to move the management plane into its own network—a key best practice for a smooth-running VCF environment! We’re doing all this magic straight from the SDDC Manager.

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Securing Your Software Supply Chain with Harbor

Securing Your Software Supply Chain with Harbor

The adoption of containerized applications and microservices has transformed how organizations build and deploy software. However, this transformation comes with a critical challenge: ensuring the security of container images throughout their lifecycle. Container images often contain […]

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vcf json generator | VCF 9 has shifted toward a more robust, API-driven deployment methodology, favoring JSON specification files over the old Cloud Builder UI and the manual Excel method. While you can still manually generate the JSON from the VCF Installer appliance, this PowerShell module gives you more control and flexibility right from your own machine. – Devi Injamuri, Client Services Consultant at Broadcom

Introducing VCF JSON Generator

VCF 9 has shifted toward a more robust, API-driven deployment methodology, favoring JSON specification files over the old Cloud Builder UI and the manual Excel method. While you can still manually generate the JSON from the VCF Installer appliance, this PowerShell module gives you more control […]

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Advanced Memory Tiering with VCF 9

Advanced Memory Tiering with VCF 9 -…

This blog post will introduce and explore how to enable VMware Advanced Memory Tiering. Why enable Advanced Memory Tiering? In more and more conversations with […]

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Modern Kubernetes Visualization using Radar

Modern Kubernetes Visualization using Radar

Over the years, many graphical user interfaces have appeared for Kubernetes, but only a few continue to be actively maintained and developed. While I prefer the standard kubectl CLI for basic interactions with a Kubernetes (k8s) cluster, a visual representation can be extremely helpful for troubleshooting and debugging. Headlamp was my go to UI tool […]

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According to the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2026 Predictions, IDC predicts that by 2028, to meet data privacy requirements and reduce risks of leakage to public LLMs, 40% of organizations will adopt private clouds that provide more control over data governance for AI.

IDC advises to protect sensitive or proprietary data by adopting a private cloud for enterprise AI.

Read more from a guest blog post by IDC’s Rob Tiffany⚡️to learn how to transition from a “public cloud first” to a “control first” strategy to protect your organization’s intellectual property and meet strict privacy regulations.

Private Cloud Adoption Predictions Driven by AI…

Private cloud adoption is accelerating as enterprises deploy AI workloads that demand stronger data privacy and governance. According to IDC projections, organizations are increasingly choosing private cloud environments to retain control over sensitive data, meet regulatory requirements, […]

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Upgrading VMware Cloud Foundation Management Domain to 9.0.2 | The video walks through upgrading a VMware Cloud Foundation Management Domain. The video does go through some issues I experienced during the NSX portion of the upgrade. – #vExpert Sargon Khizeran

Upgrading VMware Cloud Foundation Management…

The video walks through upgrading a VMware Cloud Foundation Management Domain. The video does go through some issues I experienced during the NSX portion of the upgrade.

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NVMe Memory Tiering Design and Sizing on VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Part 7: Advanced Configuration

NVMe Memory Tiering Design and Sizing on VMware…

This is the final installment of our series on Memory Tiering. In previous posts, we covered the architecture, design, sizing, and basic setup among other topics. Now, we’re diving into the advanced configuration. These settings are not necessary for this feature to be operational, but rather […]

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STOP attaching the ISO — this vSphere 8 → 9 upgrade FAILS #vmware #upgrade #vexpert

STOP attaching the ISO — this vSphere 8 → 9…

Upgrading vSphere / vCenter from 8 to 9 is not a minor update — and this is where many admins get caught. In this video, I break down why attaching a vCenter 9 ISO or patch ISO in VAMI fails, why you see the error: “The CD drive does not have a valid patch ISO or has an unsupported version” […]

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Setting Up and Configuring VMware Live Recovery – A Walkthrough

Setting Up and Configuring VMware Live Recovery…

This is a 30-minute Demo of how to set up and configure VLR in VCF to protect and recover important, mission-critical workloads. It doesn’t show VLR installation. It provides a complete walk-through of post-installation configuration, including resource mapping, VM replication, Protection Group [..]

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Installing and Configuring Microsoft SQL Server Availability Group on VMware Cloud Foundation

Installing and Configuring Microsoft SQL Server…

This video walks the Viewer through all the steps required to successfully deploy and configure Microsoft SQL Server (Windows version) for application-level High Availability, using the “Always On Availability Group” option.

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Extreme Performance Series 2026: AI Inference Performance on VCF 9 | Todd Muirhead talks with Uday Kurkure and Lan Vu about recent tests of Artificial Intelligence on VCF 9.

Extreme Performance Series 2026: AI Inference…

Todd Muirhead talks with Uday Kurkure and Lan Vu about recent tests of Artificial Intelligence on VCF 9. They partnered with NVDIA, AMD, SuperMicro, and Intel across a range of test configurations and workload types to illustrate that Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning workloads […]

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Extreme Performance Series 2026: Using vTopology in VCF 9 | Todd Muirhead talks with Mark Achtemichuk about using automatic vTopology setting in VMware Cloud Foundation 9 to get the best configuration for virtual CPUs and virtual NUMA nodes.

Extreme Performance Series 2026: Using…

Todd Muirhead talks with Mark Achtemichuk about using automatic vTopology setting in VMware Cloud Foundation 9 to get the best configuration for virtual CPUs and virtual NUMA nodes. Auto vTopology can address issues with improperly configured VMs and improve performance. VMware vSphere […]

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Updating VCF Operations Fleet Manager to 9.0.2 | VCF 9.0.2 recently dropped so let’s upgrade a few things, starting with VCF Operations Fleet Manager! – #vExpert Brock Peterson

Updating VCF Operations Fleet Manager to 9.0.2

VCF 9.0.2 recently dropped so let’s upgrade a few things, starting with VCF Operations Fleet Manager! You’ll notice I’m at Fleet Manager 9.0.1.Confirm you have your Fleet Manager Depot configured, which I do. Next let’s go get the 9.0. binaries in the Binary Management tab.Select the 9.0.2 […]

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AVI – Connect Keycloak to AVI Loadbalancer | – #vExpert Daniel Krieger

AVI – Connect Keycloak to AVI Loadbalancer

A short blog post on how to connect Keycloak to the AVI load balancer.

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Extreme Performance Series 2026: Advanced NVMe Memory Tiering VCF 9

Extreme Performance Series 2026: Advanced NVMe…

Todd Muirhead talks with Qasim Ali about recent performance testing with NVMe tiering on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 with many different workloads. Key insights and best practices are covered in addition to an in depth look at the performance testing results. Memory Tiering Performance in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 blog – https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/07/17/memory-tiering-performance-in-vmware-cloud-foundation-9-0/ NVMe Memory Tiering Design and Sizing on VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Blog Series – https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/11/04/nvme-memory-tiering-design-and-sizing-on-vmware-cloud-foundation-9-part-1/ VMware Explore 2025 Session – A Deep Dive into Memory Tiering with NVMe -…Read More

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