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The VCF AI Assistant Ships in the Next 9.1 Update | Built into 9 and arriving through the normal fleet update path. The language model is the cheapest part of it, and the demo quietly showed which data plumbing has to exist in your fleet first. – #vExpert Miguel Brasseur, Mystic Marvin

The VCF AI Assistant Ships in the Next 9.1…

Built into 9 and arriving through the normal fleet update path. The language model is the cheapest part of it, and the demo quietly showed which data plumbing has to exist in your fleet first.

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How to Protect Your AI Application and Why It Matters. CMTYQT1336LV – #vExpert Waldemar Pera

How to Protect Your AI Application and Why It…

This session explores how AI security principles can be operationalized within VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF). You will learn how to protect sensitive datasets, secure model training pipelines, enforce Zero-Trust segmentation for GPU-accelerated workloads, and strengthen compliance posture […]

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Explore 2026: VMware AI Factory and other new AI innovations in VCF

Explore 2026: VMware AI Factory and other new…

Introduction: While artificial intelligence offers transformative potential, enterprise deployment remains constrained. Privacy, IP protection, and compliance present severe existential threats. Organizations must enforce granular access boundaries and guard proprietary data. The rapid shift […]

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Announcing General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1.1

Announcing General Availability of VMware Cloud…

Coming on the heels of a very successful VMware Explore in Vegas and the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 launch in May, we’re excited to announce the general availability of VCF 9.1.1. This release builds on VCF 9.1 with tougher security, vSAN Object Storage (tech preview, previously […]

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Broadcom expanded VMware Cloud Foundation with private AI infrastructure, models, agent governance, security, and data capabilities at VMware Explore 2026. – Channel Insider

Broadcom Expands VMware VCF for Enterprise…

Broadcom expanded VMware Cloud Foundation with private AI infrastructure, models, agent governance, security, and data capabilities at VMware Explore 2026. – Channel Insider

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VCF 9.1.1: Adopting the Reduced VCF Management Services (VCFMS) Footprint After an Upgrade – William Lam

VCF 9.1.1: Adopting the Reduced VCF Management…

When VCF Management Services (VCFMS) was introduced in VCF 9.1.0, its virtual machine sizing was optimized to accommodate the largest optional Day-N service. This reduced the likelihood of requiring a rollout to a larger VM size as additional services were enabled. However, for environments […]

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10 Exciting Enhancements in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1.1 – William Lam

10 Exciting Enhancements in VMware Cloud…

This has been an exciting week as VMware Explore 2026 takes place in Las Vegas, where I have been meeting with customers and partners while delivering several technical breakout sessions and workshops. To coincide with the event, we have also announced the general availability of VMware Cloud […]

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Announcing VMware Data Services Manager 9.1.1

Announcing VMware Data Services Manager 9.1.1

As part of the latest VMware Cloud Foundation version 9.1.1 release (see this link for more details), it gives me great pleasure to announce that we also have a new 9.1.1 version of VMware Data Services Manager (DSM). This is a not just a patch release. It is a release that is chock-full of new [..]

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Client-Side SDK Generation with VMware Cloud Foundation OpenAPI Specs

Client-Side SDK Generation with VMware Cloud…

Starting with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, VMware officially publishes OpenAPI specifications for VCF APIs. This is a major milestone for developers, enabling you to consume VCF APIs using your programming language of choice. VMware provides first-class developer tooling such as VCF Power-[..]

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#126 – VMware Explore Las Vegas 2026!

#126 – VMware Explore Las Vegas 2026!

I flew out to Las Vegas this week to present a few sessions at Explore 2026! I brought my mobile podcast recording kit for the first time and decided to record some clips with various people I ran into at the event. I hope you appreciate the conversations with folks like Alan Renouf, Pete […]

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VCF 9.1.1 – Reducing CPU Utilization on AMD Ryzen Zen4/Zen5 by Masking the RDSEED Instruction

VCF 9.1.1 – Reducing CPU Utilization on AMD…

While I am a huge fan of the recent AMD Ryzen Zen4/Zen5-based consumer platforms, including the versatile Minisforum MS-A2, it is well known at this point that these processors can exhibit slower entropy generation, which can lead to significantly higher CPU utilization. I have published a number of workarounds (HERE, HERE and HERE) to address […]

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Governing the Digital Workforce: Scale AI Agents with Confidence | The era of unchecked AI is over. With AgentMinder, enterprises can stop worrying about the risks of autonomy and start running their operations with complete confidence. – Clayton Donley. Vice President and General Manager, Broadcom

Governing the Digital Workforce: Scale AI…

Bridge the AI operational trust gap with AgentMinder. Unify identity, security, and observability to safely govern autonomous digital employees.

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VMware Explore 2026 in Las Vegas | Day 4 Recap – Another year is in the books from Las Vegas and #VMwareExplore continues to deliver. Catch the news, replay, gallery, and get ready for Explore on Tour, coming to cities across the globe.

VMware Explore 2026 in Las Vegas | Day 4 Recap

Focused Learning. Immediate Impact. This past week was jam-packed with awesome sessions, Hands-on Labs, and expert speakers who showcased our latest product releases around the future of VMware Private AI with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1. Attendees got to learn from industry […]

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VMware Explore 2026 in Las Vegas | Day 2 Recap – From VCF 9.1 deep dives to community connections, Day 2 at #VMwareExplore 2026 in Las Vegas has delivered big Ideas and bold Innovations.

VMware Explore 2026 in Las Vegas | Day 2 Recap

Welcome to VMware Explore 2026, where thousands of explorers have gathered at the Venetian Convention and Expo Center to harness the power of private cloud. Reporting live from Nevada, here’s your recap of Day 2.

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Day 1 of #VMwareExplore 2026 is in the books! From the latest announcements in the plenary session to hands-on learning with the experts, it’s been an incredible start. Dive into our daily recap to catch up on all the highlights.

VMware Explore 2026 in Las Vegas | Day 1 Recap

Whether you picked up some free swag, spent time in the Hands-on Labs, consulted a VMware software expert, or witnessed a live interview at the Virtually Speaking Podcast, you arrived ready. To keep that momentum going, here is your Day 1 digest of the key highlights and updates from the event.

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Save the Date for VMware Explore 2027 | Broadcom is excited to announce that VMware Explore 2027 in Las Vegas is moving to the new spring dates of May 3 – 6, 2027, hosted at the premier Resorts World Las Vegas.

Save the Date for VMware Explore 2027

We are excited to announce that VMware Explore 2027 in Las Vegas is moving to the new spring dates of May 3 – 6, 2027, hosted at the premier Resorts World Las Vegas.

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Upgrading VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0.2 to 9.1: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Runbook Phase 5 – #vExpert Mohammed Viquar Ahmed

Upgrading VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0.2…

In the previous blog, we covered the Management Components upgrade as part of the VCF 9.1 upgrade sequence. In this blog, we will continue the upgrade journey and focus on completing the Core Components upgrade to VCF 9.1, covering the upgrade steps to NSX Manager, vCenter and ESX. Detailed […]

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Deploying a VCF 9.1 Supervisor on a One-Node Nested Lab: VLAN Trunking, Large VNA, and the Tiny-to-Small Fix – #vExpert Devyn Harrington

Deploying a VCF 9.1 Supervisor on a One-Node…

How I rebuilt my nested VCF 9.1 management domain without Automation, restored VLAN trunking, deployed a Large VNA, and fixed a resource-starved Supervisor.

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NUMA Scheduling in VCF 9.1 – GiovanniDominoni.it

NUMA Scheduling in VCF 9.1 – GiovanniDominoni.it

I’m quite sure most of you know already the NUMA and how the CPU / Numa scheduler works. If this is new for you, I’ve wrote some time ago an article but since it is in Italian I wanted to do a refresh and also write down what changed with 9.1 because is not only the platform itself but also […]

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Deploy VCF on Supermicro HGX Servers with NVIDIA GPUs for AI Workloads | This reference architecture shows how to deploy a pool of GPU-accelerated infrastructure, wired with a lossless high-speed fabric and operated as a single multi-tenant system.

Deploy VCF on Supermicro HGX Servers with…

Specialized AI computing infrastructure—combining high-performance hardware, optimized software, and data pipelines—is essential to continuously ingest raw data and process it into artificial intelligence models and inference at scale. This reference architecture shows how to deploy a pool […]

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