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VCF 9 Deployment Made Easy: How to Use VCF Planner Step by Step | Planning a VMware Cloud Foundation 9 deployment does not have to be chaos. In this video, I will show you how to use the VCF Planner tool to make your VCF 9 deployment much easier to manage. – #vExpert Piotr Tarnawski

VCF 9 Deployment Made Easy: How to Use VCF…

Planning a VMware Cloud Foundation 9 deployment does not have to be chaos. In this video, I will show you how to use the VCF Planner tool to make your VCF 9 deployment much easier to manage. Step by step, the tool guides you through the full process, breaks everything into clear phases, lets […]

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5 Things You Didn’t Know You Can Do With Traceflow

5 Things You Didn’t Know You Can Do With Traceflow

Managing a modern software-defined network means navigating a multi-layered architecture. When network traffic goes missing between overlays, distributed firewalls, and physical handoffs, many engineers still default to traditional troubleshooting methods – SSHing into ESXi hosts and Edge Nodes, running pktcap-uw, or digging through esxcli outputs. While those tools are vital, they are also time-consuming. NSX … Continued The post 5 Things You Didn’t Know You Can Do With Traceflow appeared…Read More

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vSphere UDT Deep Dive: How to Achieve vMotion Speeds for Cold Migrations and Snapshots | #vExpert Puneet Sharma

vSphere UDT Deep Dive: How to Achieve vMotion…

In modern data centers, migrating virtual machines across non-shared storage or over long distances has traditionally been a performance bottleneck. While live vMotion is highly optimized, cold migrations and snapshot-heavy transfers often hit a “protocol ceiling.” vSphere 8 and 9 resolve this […]

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The Art of vSphere Performance:Optimize your workloads and clusters at Zero Cost | UK VMUG from October, 2025

The Art of vSphere Performance:Optimize your…

Like a seasoned general, you must master the art of efficiency—tuning physical nodes, clusters, and virtual machines with precision to achieve victory. This session will equip you with the strategies and tactics needed to maximize application and infrastructure performance without spending a […]

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VMware vDefend DFW 1-2-3-4 Security Journey Stage 1 | This video demonstrates the first stage of the Security Journey, which starts with a security assessment and report to inform you of your security posture, and provides policy recommendations.

VMware vDefend DFW 1-2-3-4 Security Journey…

This video demonstrates the first stage of the Security Journey, which starts with a security assessment and report to inform you of your security posture, and provides policy recommendations.

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MCP Security Guide

MCP Security Guide

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard designed to allow AI models to securely and consistently discover, connect to, and utilize external resources. MCP is a transport layer, and it can connect to multiple types of interfaces — such as APIs, databases, workflows, and even other […]

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Transitioning to VMware vSphere Configuration Profiles from Host Profiles

Transitioning to VMware vSphere Configuration…

vSphere Configuration Profiles, first introduced in VMware vSphere 8.0, allows VMware Cloud Foundation administrators to manage the ESX host configuration at a cluster level. In this article, we will discuss how this feature compares to Host Profiles, and how to transition from Host Profiles to [..]

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Today! WE, March 25 at Noon Pacific. 763 – NVIDIA GTC Conference & VMUG Connect Wrap-up with Eric and Bob. Tune in and join the conversation.

763 – NVIDIA GTC Conference & VMUG Connect…

NVIDIA’s large GTC conference was last week. Eric looks at Chip and Rack system announcements for Inference and Agentic workloads. Amsterdam VMUG Connect had over 500 attendees and standing-room only for the AI BOFs on day zero.

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Automatically Login to VKS Clusters with 1Password CLI – #vExpert Bernard Smith

Automatically Login to VKS Clusters with…

If you’re using vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) and the vSphere Supervisor a good amount, you might be getting tired of having to re-enter your account password at the start of every day. If you’ve seen one of my previous posts about using 1Password CLI for PowerCLI, you already know where […]

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Detecting vSphere VM OS Mis-Matches with VCF Operations – #vExpert Brock Peterson

Detecting vSphere VM OS Mis-Matches with VCF…

As you’ve likely noticed, there are times your vSphere VMs won’t have the same value for Guest OS from vCenter and Guest OS from Tools.Guest OS from vCenter is set at build/deployment time and won’t change. Guest OS from Tools is updated as the OS changes, is upgraded, etc. I wanted to know […]

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Is your network infrastructure draining your AI potential?

In the race to scale AI, every watt counts. Networking is now one of the largest power consumers after GPUs, and every bit of energy spent on the switch is energy taken away from computation.

A new third-party test from the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory reveals a stark difference in efficiency: an alternate switch solution used 48% more power than our Tomahawk 5 switch.

By engineering power efficiency from the silicon up, Tomahawk 5 allows operators to:

✅ Redirect power to GPU capacity for larger AI workloads.
✅ Simplify infrastructure with a highly integrated 51.2 Tbps design.
✅ Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by over $4,500 per switch in combined OPEX and CAPEX savings

Read the full analysis by Asad Khamisy:

Tomahawk® 5: Revolutionizing Power Efficiency…

Broadcom’s Tomahawk® 5 significantly reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO); new third-party test finds that an alternate solution uses 48% more power than Broadcom switch

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VCF Operations Alerts using Dynamic Thresholds – #vExpert Brock Peterson

VCF Operations Alerts using Dynamic Thresholds

In this blog I’d like to detail the use of DTs in VCF Operations Alert Definitions. In relation to this, it’s important to highlight the last blog listed above, namely that Alert Definitions using DTs are only evaluated once daily (as of Operations 8.17) at the time configured in […]

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Identity Security for VMware Cloud Foundation – IAM, PAM, and Zero Trust Access | Dhananjaya Kurukulasooriya

Identity Security for VMware Cloud Foundation -…

𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗜𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗱𝗱-𝗢𝗻. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. Too many enterprise cloud environments still treat identity as an afterthought ,a bolt-on layer configured after compute, storage, and networking are in place. That mindset is a security debt waiting to be called in.

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Creating Custom Virtual Machine Classes using vSphere API – William Lam

Creating Custom Virtual Machine Classes using…

Back in 2020, the vSphere UI was the only way to create your own custom Virtual Machine Classes, there was not a vSphere API and while you can directly connect to vSphere Supervisor Control Plane, it was not officially supported 🙂 With the release of vSphere 7.0 Update 2, the vSphere Automation …Read More

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Save the Date: #VMwareExplore 2026 is coming back to Las Vegas! Join us Aug. 31 – Sep. 3 for an experience full of next-gen tech, thought leadership, and hands-on learning.

📝 Registration opens April 28
📍 Las Vegas
👉🏼 Find more details plus the calendar invite here:

📆 Save the Registration Date for Las Vegas

Explore is returning to Las Vegas Aug. 31 – Sep. 3, 2026. Mark your calendars. Registration goes live on April 28. Come for the training, leave with the skillset needed to reap the benefits of a comprehensive private cloud platform. Get ahead in building your modern infrastructure at Explore.

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ANS vDefend Webinar Series | Part 1: Unifying Lateral Security for VMs and Containers with VMware Kubernetes Service and vDefend. March 31st, 2026, 8:00 AM PT

ANS vDefend Webinar Series | Part 1: Unifying…

Join us to learn how integrating VMware vDefend with vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) accelerates your Zero Trust microsegmentation journey.

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#VMwareExplore 2026 is on the horizon—launching in Las Vegas on August 31 before heading out on a 6-city global tour. 🌍

Get hands-on with the latest innovations, build real technical depth, and connect with a worldwide community pushing what’s next.

Learn more:

Save the Dates: VMware Explore Season Is on the…

VMware Explore and VMware Explore on Tour official dates now released for 2026. Training, VCF certifications, and expert access await.

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Mitigating Rising Memory Costs with NVMe Memory Tiering in ESXi 9.0.2 – #vExpert Sargon Khizeran

Mitigating Rising Memory Costs with NVMe Memory…

I will be following a Broadcom article (Memory Tiering Configuration) to enable Memory Tiering. These hosts have not been commissioned into VCF yet, the plan will be prep these as a vSAN cluster. This is on a SuperMicro E300-9D-8CN8TP and the NVME storage is Samsung 990 PRO 1TB. Here you can […]

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The Claw Awakens 🦀 — OpenClaw on Cloud Foundry? | CF Weekly #83

The Claw Awakens 🦀 — OpenClaw on Cloud Foundry?…

The claw machine AI craze has officially taken over the internet — ClawBot, MoltBot, MoltBook, OpenClaw — and we’re diving headfirst into all of it. What are these projects? Why is everyone losing their minds? And most importantly… can we actually run OpenClaw on Cloud Foundry? This week […]

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Unlocking VMware Cloud Foundation Enterprise Value: Cloud Field Day 25

Unlocking VMware Cloud Foundation Enterprise…

Our team recently presented at Cloud Field Day 25, demonstrating how VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) addresses critical enterprise infrastructure challenges. The sessions showcased VCF’s unique capabilities in addressing the global memory shortage, delivering public cloud-inspired networking in private cloud environments, and enabling self-service database provisioning. Advanced NVMe Memory Tiering The session opened with Dave Morera, … Continued The post Unlocking VMware Cloud Foundation…Read More

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