Rightsizing and Reclamation Exclusions using vSphere Tags in VCF Operations 9.1 – #vExpert Brock Peterson
If you’re running VCF Operations 9.1 you’ll notice this small (but very powerful) new feature, allowing us to exclude VMs from the Rightsizing and/or Reclamation engines, here’s what it looks like.Selecting EXCLUSION SETTINGS presents the exclusion criteria, which is based on vSphere Tags on […]
#121 – Operational, Disaster, and Ransomware Recovery using VCF Protection and Recovery featuring Velina Krasteva!
With VCF 9.1 the name of VMware Live Recovery, or Site Recovery Manager, seems to have changed to VCF Protection and Recovery. In this episode Velina explains how this platform provides administrators the ability to recover workloads from different types of scenarios. Whether you deleted a VM (operational recovery), lost a whole datacenter (disaster recovery), […] The post #121 – Operational, Disaster, and Ransomware Recovery using VCF Protection and Recovery featuring Velina Krasteva!…Read More
Understanding Large Memory Pages with VMware Advanced Memory Tiering
If you’ve been setting up VMware Memory Tiering or thinking about it, you’ve probably asked yourself at some point: what happens to Memory Large Pages? It’s a great question, and I’m glad you’ve asked it, because the answer changes how you need to plan your capacity and configure your VMs.
Configuring Email Alerts in Data Services Manager version 9.1 – Cormac Hogan
I was recently asked to assist with some troubleshooting of the Email Alerting mechanism in Data Services Manager (DSM). The first thing to note is that there are different types of alerts that can be raised and emailed in DSM. The first type are Global Alerts, & these are emailed to the DSM Admin.
It’s never been more important to keep your VCF environment current. As frontier AI models demonstrate an unprecedented ability to chain complex vulnerabilities together, regular updates to your VCF environment are essential to shrink your attack surface and harden your defense-in-depth architecture.
This blog walks through the typical process that VCF Professional Services uses to assess, plan and perform upgrades to VCF 9.1. Read more:
The process of upgrading to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 depends on the version of VCF that you’re currently running as well as a mix of environmental, software and hardware considerations. For example, a specific hardware requirement may have changed and is no longer supported […]
Clarifying Minimum Required ESX Hosts for VCF Deployments | William Lam
The VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.x Installer includes a built-in resource calculator that automatically determines the required compute and storage resources, along with the estimated number of ESX hosts needed to support the selected deployment configuration. Understanding the compute […]
How to Import VMs into VCF Automation | VCF Automation (VCFA) is the new cloud management layer on top of VCF. Which brings the question how can you import legacy VM workloads under VCF Automation management? – #vExpert Tom Fojta
VCF Automation (VCFA) is the new cloud management layer on top of VCF. Which brings the question how can you import legacy VM workloads under VCF Automation management? VCFA provides infrastructure to the user in form of Namespaces which are Kubernetes namespaces managed by vSphere […]
VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 89 – Unpacking the Latest AI Advancements in the VCF 9.1 Release- 2
Welcome to the next episode of the VCF Breakroom Chats. Today, we are happy to present this vLog with Dave Morera, Technical Marketing Architect, VCF Division, Broadcom. In this second episode of the 2 part series, Dave Morera and Shobhit Bhutani discuss the general availability of AI workloads on VCF with AMD GPUs! Want to learn more? About the … Continued The post VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 89 – Unpacking the Latest AI Advancements in the VCF 9.1 Release- 2 appeared first on VMware Cloud…Read More
VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 88 – Unpacking the Latest AI Advancements in the VCF 9.1 Release- 1
Welcome to the next episode of the VCF Breakroom Chats. Today, we are happy to present this vLog with Nikhil Kulkarni, Technical Marketing Architect, VCF Division, Broadcom. In this first episode of the 2 part series, Nikhil Kulkarni and Shobhit Bhutani discuss the latest AI advancements in […]
VCF.JSONGenerator 9.1.0.1000 Release | It’s taken some time, but the update to VCF.JSONGenerator is finally now available on the PowerShell Gallery. – #vExpert Ken Gould
VCF.JSON Generator release with content transfer functionality. It’s taken some time, but the update to VCF.JSONGenerator is finally now available on the PowerShell Gallery. – #vExpert Ken Gould
VCF 9.1 Deployment Traps: Case-Sensitive Sizing, Missing Binaries, and the Validation Catch-22 | #vExpert Piotr Tarnawski
If you are currently wrestling with a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 greenfield deployment or management plane overhaul, grab a coffee. You are going to need it. Lately, I’ve been working on pushing the new VCF 9.1 Management Services layer onto a custom, isolated routed network segment […]
Upgrade NVIDIA Mellanox Firmware for VCF 9 | #vExpert Tommy Grot
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 ships with ESX 9.1 and a tightly integrated NSX/vSAN stack, and that integration makes your NIC firmware matter more than it used to. RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) for vSAN, NSX offloads, and the native nmlx5 driver baked into your vLCM image all expect a […]
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 Released on Dell VxRail 9.1.000 | #vExpert David Ring
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 on Dell VxRail 9.1.000 became Generally Available (GA) on June 16th, 2026. Dell Technologies and Broadcom are pleased to announce this milestone. This release supports ESX 9.1.0.0 and vCenter Server 9.1.0.0 and includes support for in-place upgrades to VCF 9.1 from […]
VCF 9.1 On VxRAIL 9.1.000 – Walkthrough (Part1: Management WLD) | #vExpert David Ring
Note: this is an example for reference only please use the VxRail installation procedures & services provided by Dell. This is the first in a series of posts covering VCF 9.1 On VxRail 9.1.000. The following post provides an example walkthrough covering the process of: Deploying the VxRail […]
VCF 9.1 On VxRAIL 9.1.000 – Walkthrough (Part2: VI WLD) – #vExpert David Ring
Note: this is an example for reference only please use the VxRail installation procedures & services provided by Dell. This is the second in a series of posts covering VCF 9.1 On VxRail 9.1.000. The following post provides an example walkthrough covering the process of: Deploying the VxRail VI […]
Zero to VCAP: Building a VCF 9.1 Workload Domain, Screen by Screen – Humbled Geeks
So this post does exactly what I promised at the end of Part 1: I take the remaining four Cisco UCS B200 blades in the same UCS 5108 chassis and turn them into a VI (Virtual Infrastructure) workload domain — a second vCenter, a new vSphere cluster, NSX networking, and VMFS-on-FC storage off […]
VCF 9.1 – Auditing VCF Management Services (VCFMS) IP Pool Usage
As part of deploying the new VCF Management Services (VCFMS) component, a pool of IP addresses is provided to support the automatic deployment and scale-out of additional worker nodes for Day-N services such as Log Management and Real-time Metrics. In addition, these IP addresses are also reserved for lifecycle operations such as node recovery, rolling […]
First Time at VMware Explore? Check Out My Ultimate VMware Explore Guide! – #vExpert Krzysztof Salwa
If you’re planning to attend VMware Explore for the first time, you’re probably wondering what to expect and how to make the most of the experience. Having attended VMware Explore myself, I know how overwhelming it can feel at first. With thousands of attendees, hundreds of sessions, Hands-on […]
Building Adoption Through Experience: Inside 27 Virtual’s VCF Knights Solution Lab | Discover how 27 Virtual’s VCF Knights Solution Lab gives Broadcom partners hands-on VMware Cloud Foundation experience to validate architectures and accelerate customer adoption.
Discover how 27 Virtual’s VCF Knights Solution Lab gives Broadcom partners hands-on VMware Cloud Foundation experience to validate architectures and accelerate customer adoption.
VMware Explore 2026: A No-Hype Field Guide for VCF Practitioners | This guide is written for the people who run the platform — VCF, NSX, vSAN, in production, on a finite maintenance-window budget — not for the people who write the press releases. Here’s how I’d spend the week. – #vExpert Tommy Grot
VMware Explore 2026 runs August 31 – September 3 at The Venetian in Las Vegas, and for once the calendar is working in our favor. VCF 9.1 went GA back in May, which means by the time we’re all badged up and on the show floor, the sessions won’t be teasing a roadmap — they’ll be unpacking what […]
