Building a Portable VCF 9.0 Offline Depot with Docker on Mac – #vExpert Yahya Zahedi | Consultant’s Log
In my part of Krefeld, the internet infrastructure still relies on DSL technology. No matter how much I pay my provider, they cannot give me more than 16Mbps because the physical wires can’t go faster. For a normal home, this might be okay (I doubt it!!!). But for a home lab, it is a nightmare. […]
Deploying Harbor Service in Air-Gapped VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0
Modern private cloud infrastructure demands enterprise-grade container registry capabilities, particularly in environments where external internet connectivity is restricted or prohibited. Within VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, deploying Supervisor Services in air-gapped environments […]
The Real Constraint on Enterprise AI isn’t GPUs; It’s Power
For years, energy sat in the background of enterprise IT planning. Costs were stable enough that most leaders didn’t treat power as a first-order constraint. You planned for servers, storage, networking, and software; energy rarely changed the math. AI breaks that model. In recent years, AI conversations centered on the question: can you get the … Continued The post The Real Constraint on Enterprise AI isn’t GPUs; It’s Power appeared first on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog.
MCP vs. APIs: Why You Need Both for AI Applications
I’m a huge fan of Model Context Protocol (MCP) and have been fortunate to talk about it at several conferences and to customers lately. In those talks, a few questions often come up: What’s the difference between MCP and APIs? Is an MCP server just a wrapper around my API? If so, why do we … Continued The post MCP vs. APIs: Why You Need Both for AI Applications appeared first on Tanzu.
We’re less than 2 weeks away from our exclusive briefing on the next planned release of VMware Cloud Foundation! Get ready for concise demo-walkthroughs, customer insights, and an unfiltered Q&A with the team behind this release. Secure your seat:
We’re less than 2 weeks away from our exclusive live briefing on the next planned release of VMware Cloud Foundation. Invite your customers now.
Broadcom Product Demo: Tomahawk 6 Ethernet Switch for Next-Gen AI Networks
This demonstration showcases Broadcom’s Ethernet switching solutions for next-generation AI back-end systems. Featured products include the 102.4 Tbps Tomahawk 6 switch chip (pluggable or CPO ports) and the 51.2 Tbps Tomahawk Ultra, which is optimized for low-latency, lossless scale-up networks.
Automating VM Power Operations in vCenter Without PowerCLI | I wrote a PowerShell script with a little help from Artificial Intelligence (AI) – thanks, Claude! This script, Invoke-VMPowerOps.ps1, takes a different approach compared to what we have seen historically. It speaks directly to the vCenter REST API using nothing but native PowerShell. Read more from #vExpert Don Horrox, vChamp
If you manage a VMware environment of any meaningful size, you have probably been in this situation: a maintenance window is open, you have a list of VMs that need to be shut down and brought back up in a controlled sequence, and you’re doing it by hand through the vSphere/vCenter Client. One […]
VMware Cloud on AWS: Introducing the Usage Report APIs
Tracking VMware Cloud on AWS consumption across hosts, SPLA, and non-host charges today requires manual data pulls and waiting for invoice every quarter. Customers building FinOps practices and mature cloud financial operations have consistently asked for programmatic access to this data, in […]
Lessons from the Field: Recovering from Orphaned Avi Controllers in VCF-9 | #vExpert Manish Jha
In a VCF environment, lifecycle operations are expected to be performed through SDDC Manager/VCF Operations. However, in real-world scenarios, operational mistakes occur—especially when components are modified directly in vCenter Server rather than through the VCF control plane. […]
Platform Engineering for Mission-Critical Clouds
In this session, we explore how VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 enables a structured, secure, and automatable platform engineering approach across virtual machines and Kubernetes workloads. We will examine how VCs compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes, and automation capabilities combine to […]
Observability on VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service
Cloud-native applications bring flexibility, scale, and faster delivery, but they also introduce new operational complexity. In Kubernetes environments, workloads are ephemeral, services are distributed, and telemetry is generated at high volume across multiple layers of the stack. Our new […]
Bridging the (.Local) Gap: A Split-Domain Design for VMware Cloud Foundation Deployment
In the ever-evolving landscape of private cloud, technical debt often hides in the most fundamental places, like your DNS naming convention. For many years, .local was the go-to Top-Level Domain (TLD) for internal Active Directory environments. However, as per RFC 6762, .local is now officially reserved for Multicast DNS (mDNS) and is no longer recommended … Continued The post Bridging the (.Local) Gap: A Split-Domain Design for VMware Cloud Foundation Deployment appeared first on VMware…Read More
Webcast | Running VCF on Amazon Elastic VMware Service: Technical Deep Dive. This technical deep‑dive is designed for VMware practitioners who want to understand how EVS works in practice. We’ll walk through the EVS and FSx for ONTAP architecture, deployment and sizing considerations, and data protection options. Join us!
This technical deep‑dive is designed for VMware practitioners who want to understand how EVS works in practice. We’ll walk through the EVS and FSx for ONTAP architecture, deployment and sizing considerations, and data protection options.
Converging VMware vSphere to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0: The Top 10 Questions Answered
Transitioning your VMware vSphere environment to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is a strategic move that shifts your infrastructure from a collection of managed silos to a unified private cloud. In my recent webinar with Brent Douglas where we dove deep into the converge process, the turnout […]
Design and Architecture Considerations for VKS on VCF
Stop gambling on ‘best-effort’ configurations and learn the proven design patterns our Professional Services experts use to architect mission-critical Kubernetes environments on VCF. Join this session to find out how VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) provides a unified platform designed to […]
**6. VCF 9.0 Homelab Save TB transitioning Windows NFS thick to Rocky Linux NFS thin** | New blog post to reclaim Terabytes of space on your SSD storing your VCF Labs physical or Nested by transitioning from windows NFS to Linux NFS with VMware storage vMotion. – #vExpert Abbed Sedkaoui
New blog post to reclaim Terabytes of space on your SSD storing your VCF Labs physical or Nested by transitioning from windows NFS to Linux NFS with VMware storage vMotion.
SCG vs. LOLESXi – Configuration Baselines vs. Post-Compromise Reality – hcidude’s blog
Part 3: In Part 1, we looked at post-compromise reality on ESXi.In Part 2, we stepped back to understand defensive baselines defined by VMware’s Security Configuration & Hardening Guide. This final post connects both perspectives – and explains why neither works on its own. Two Projects, One […]
How to protect VCF/vSphere/ESXi hypervisor platform against ransomware attack | UK VMUG Session, October 2025 by Anders Olsson
UK VMUG Session, October 2025 by Anders Olsson. VMware VCF, vCenter Server and ESXi are common high-value targets for ransomware attacks, and the attackers are still getting better. In this session we will use real-life experiences from defending against attacks to show how the attacks have […]
VCF9 NVMe Memory Tiering Ratios | What if you could extend memory capacity… without buying more memory? #vExpert Danny Alvarez, Next Level SDDC
What if you could extend memory capacity… without buying more memory? Memory tiering in VCF9 gives architects flexibility in how they balance performance, density, and cost. The key design choice comes down to memory tiering ratios which dictates how much NVMe-backed memory is added relative […]
From Prototype to Production: Securing Database MCP at Enterprise Scale
How the VMware Tanzu Greenplum MCP Server Puts puts security patterns into practice (Part 2: The enterprise implementation) In Part 1 of this blog series, I laid out why database access is the hardest MCP problem and explored the security patterns every implementation needs to get right.
