Introducing VMmark 4.1: Enhanced Power Efficiency Benchmarking for Private Cloud Infrastructure
VMware VMmark 4.1 builds upon the solid foundation of VMmark 4.0, introducing a significant new capability that addresses one of today’s most critical data center concerns: energy efficiency. As organizations worldwide prioritize sustainable IT operations and seek to reduce their power […]
VCF 9.1: Past the AI Hype, a Solid Maturity Release – #vExpert Tommy Grot
Broadcom announced VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 on May 5th, 2026, and the messaging across the press release and the dozen-plus supporting blog posts all converges on the same theme: “AI and Kubernetes native private cloud.” If you read all of them, you’d think the headline is AI. It isn’t […]
Auto-RAID in VMware vSAN for VCF 9.1 – Comprehensive System-Managed Data Resilience
With every new release comes new features and enhancements. Some capabilities and their benefits are obvious, but target specific challenges and situations. Other enhancements seem subtle and perhaps easy to overlook, but impact multiple features, and benefit nearly every customer in their day-[…]
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: What’s New | Discover the main new features in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, including Kubernetes improvements, vSAN enhancements, security updates, and easier lifecycle management. #vExpert Valentin Collin
Discover the main new features in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, including Kubernetes improvements, vSAN enhancements, security updates, and easier lifecycle management.
Infoblox Integration in VCF 9.1
This video introduces the native integration between VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 and Infoblox, presented by Dimitri Desmidt. The integration brings VCF logical networks under Infoblox management so that DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) for both physical and virtual environments can […]
VPC Connectivity Control in VCF 9.1
Dimitri Desmidt introduces VPC connectivity control, a networking capability in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 that lets administrators group VPCs and govern east-west communication between them at the network layer. The feature adds three policy types that can be assigned to a VPC: […]
VCF 9 – Post 2 | Home Lab Validation: Official Requirements vs. Available Environment. #vExpert Fabio Santos Gomes
In the first post, I introduced the general idea of the project: setting up a simple environment featuring VMware Avi Load Balancer + vSphere Supervisor using VDS on VCF 9. Now comes a less glamorous—yet essential—part: validating whether my home lab is capable of supporting this design.
VCF 9 – Post 3 | Network Design for AVI + Supervisor with VDS. #vExpert Fabio Santos Gomes
The Supervisor documentation regarding VDS and Avi clearly states that the environment requires the separation of network functions: the Management Network, the Avi Data Network, and the Supervisor Workload Network. The Avi Controller and the Service Engines’ management interfaces reside […]
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: The reality of simplification.
Infrastructure leaders are being squeezed by a three-way pressure system: 1️⃣ DRAM prices are skyrocketing. 2️⃣ AI demand is accelerating. 3️⃣ The attack surface is growing. Most organizations try to solve these challenges separately. The result isn’t better performance, it’s more fragmentation. VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 changes the math. We’re delivering up to a 40% reduction in server costs and a 70% increase in deployment speed. Not by adding more tools, but by unifying the ones you have. This isn’t the promise of simplification. It’s the reality of it. Watch the video and learn what’s new in VCF 9.1: https://go-vmware.broadcom.com/whats-new-in-vcf
VCF 9.1 – New HTTP Offline Depot Support for VCF Installer & Fleet Depot Service
VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 introduced the concept of a unified VCF Software Depot, which can connect to either Broadcom’s online repository or an offline depot that is hosted within an organizations environment. By default, an offline VCF Software Depot requires HTTPS with basic authentication. In VCF 9.0, HTTPS can […]
#767 – Tommy Grot Talks Virtual Tooling and VirtualBytes Blog with Eric and Bob | Join the conversation on WE, May 6 at noon Pacific.
Tommy Grot has an amazing blog with great technical articles from 9.x topics around tiered memory to deployment fails with 9.0.1 to VCF 9 Expansion and vMotion vmkernel limitations.
vDefend’s Edge Webinar Series | Part 2: What’s New in vDefend for VCF 9. May 12, 2026 | 8:00 AM PT
Part 2: What’s New in vDefend for VCF 9
IT leaders are being squeezed by a three-way pressure system: 1️⃣ DRAM prices are skyrocketing. 2️⃣ AI demand is accelerating. 3️⃣ The attack surface is growing. Most organizations try to solve these challenges separately, increasing fragmentation. VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 changes the math….
IT leaders are being squeezed by a three-way pressure system: 1️⃣ DRAM prices are skyrocketing. 2️⃣ AI demand is accelerating. 3️⃣ The attack surface is growing. Most organizations try to solve these challenges separately, increasing fragmentation. VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 changes the math….Read More
VCF 9.1 Unveiled: 40% Lower Server Costs & Production AI at Scale | Discover how VCF 9.1 will slash infrastructure costs by up to 40% while delivering a sovereign platform for production AI. This walkthrough covers VKS updates, enhanced NVMe memory tiering, and new zero-trust security features.
Discover how VCF 9.1 will slash infrastructure costs by up to 40% while delivering a sovereign platform for production AI. This walkthrough covers VKS updates, enhanced NVMe memory tiering, and new zero-trust security features.
Unlocking Enterprise AI with VCF Private AI Services
AI is revolutionizing how we do business, yet organizations still struggle to deploy models that guarantee both enterprise-grade security and seamless scalability. VCF Private AI Services simplifies the complexities of deploying and managing high-performance AI workloads. This session high- […]
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VCF 9.1 Is Here: Broadcom Pushes Private Cloud Hard Into Production AI | #vExpert Piotr Tarnawski
Broadcom has announced VCF 9.1, and the message is very clear: Private cloud is not dead. In fact, Broadcom is positioning VCF 9.1 as the platform enterprises should use when AI stops being a lab experiment and becomes something that needs governance, security, cost control and actual […]
Avi Innovations for VCF 9.1: Powering Kubernetes, Agentic AI and VPC Workloads
The market landscape is fundamentally shifting now, making AI-ready private cloud infrastructure and robust Kubernetes adoption mandatory. Avi provides the critical foundation to meet the surging demand from agentic AI workloads, delivering an integrated cloud experience by simplifying […]
VCF 9.1 – VPCs Connectivity Policies | In this blog post, I’ll discuss the new VPC connectivity Policies and how they can be used to enhance security. – #vExpert Daniel Krieger
In this blog post, I’ll discuss the new VPC connectivity Policies and how they can be used to enhance security. – #vExpert Daniel Krieger
VMware Explore 2026: The Practitioner’s Conference for Private Cloud & AI
IT infrastructure isn’t standing still, and neither are the demands on the people running it. Today’s practitioners are expected to modernize workloads, optimize private clouds, and govern AI at scale, without dropping the ball on security or compliance. That pressure is real. And that’s why […]
