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Level Up: Your Path to VCF 9 Certification.

Level Up: Your Path to VCF 9 Certification.

Managing part of the stack and orchestrating the entire platform are two different jobs. If you’ve built your career in vSphere, NSX, or vSAN, that expertise is the foundation for you to Level Up through training and certification. James breaks down what the path to VCF 9 mastery actually looks like for practitioners, and the investment Broadcom has made to help you get there faster. It’s time to Level Up. #VMwareCloudFoundation #VCF9 #VMware #ITCertification #LevelUp

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VCF 9.1 – Quick Tip: Upgrading ESX Hosts with Non-Certified vSAN ESA NVMe Devices in SDDC Manager

VCF 9.1 – Quick Tip: Upgrading ESX Hosts with…

I recently started rolling out the latest VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 Express Patch 1 (9.1.0.0100) into my lab environment, and everything had been going quite smoothly. After successfully upgrading vCenter Server and NSX earlier this morning, I moved on to my ESX hosts. Since I always run the pre-checks before kicking off an upgrade, I […]

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Infrastructure you manage is overhead. Infrastructure you program is an advantage.

VCF 9.1: API-first, unified SDK, real-time metrics, and official Terraform support.

One platform. No feature gaps. Read more ➡️

Unlocking the Full Potential of Programmable…

Infrastructure you manage is overhead. Infrastructure you program is an advantage. VCF 9.1: API-first, unified SDK, real-time metrics, and official Terraform support. One platform. No feature gaps. Read more ➡️

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VMware Image Builder in Docker on macOS Tahoe (arm64) — Comprehensive Setup Guide | #vExpert Victoria Gimma

VMware Image Builder in Docker on macOS Tahoe…

What am I doing in this post? My Goal: To build custom ESX install ISOs for the Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro which I am using as workload domain home-lab nodes. We will cover ESXi 8.0 U3, ESX 9.0, and ESX 9.1 base images, with the latest USB Network Native Driver Flings injected.

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OAuth 2.0 Authentication Using VMware Cloud Foundation PowerCLI 9.1

OAuth 2.0 Authentication Using VMware Cloud…

The release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 introduces plenty of new enhancements and updates. I previously outlined the idea of a fully programmable infrastructure and how we achieved this milestone with the VCF 9.1 release. If you are new to the concept of programmable infrastructure, I highly recommend checking out my previous blog post: … Continued The post OAuth 2.0 Authentication Using VMware Cloud Foundation PowerCLI 9.1 appeared first on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog.

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VCF 9.1 Protection and Recovery demo showing how to recover from a ransomware attack

VCF 9.1 Protection and Recovery demo showing…

Just recorded a new demo for VCF 9.1 Protection and Recovery, or VMware Live Recovery as it was called previously. In this demo I show the recovery process after a ransomware attack! I just love how easy it is with this platform, and how it includes integration with either Carbon Black or CrowdStrike. The post VCF 9.1 Protection and Recovery demo showing how to recover from a ransomware attack appeared first on Yellow Bricks.

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VCF 9.1 – VMUG x Intel x Micron Collaboration on Single VCF Host Deployment for VMUG Connect | William Lam

VCF 9.1 – VMUG x Intel x Micron Collaboration…

Everyone knows how difficult and expensive it can be to build a personal lab, yet that is often where practitioners and architects gain their most valuable hands-on experience with VMware technologies. Earlier this year, Intel reached out and shared that they would be attending several VMUG […]

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The VCF 9.1 Upgrade Masterclass: Operations & Licensing – Part 1 | #vExpert Tarsio Moraes

The VCF 9.1 Upgrade Masterclass: Operations &…

Welcome back! Following the exciting VCF 9.1 announcement on May 5th and the binary drop on May 12th, it’s time to get our hands dirty. If you are currently running VCF 9.0.2 (released on January 23, 2026), you might have noticed a slight hiccup when trying to upgrade your operations environ-[…]

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Retrieve vCenter Server VMs and NSX VMs resource allocations in VCF Operations

Retrieve vCenter Server VMs and NSX VMs…

In VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments, vCenter Server and NSX management components are deployed as virtual machines. Administrators often require a streamlined method to monitor the resource allocations—specifically CPU, memory, and storage capacity—of these underlying vCenter […]

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Eliminating the Encryption Overhead: Inside VCF 9.1’s Intel QAT Offload | #vExpert Puneet Sharma

Eliminating the Encryption Overhead: Inside VCF…

Implementing Zero-Trust data-in-motion compliance within legacy private clouds introduces a severe performance trade-off: executing real-time symmetric encryption (AES) on gigabytes of active memory packets saturates general-purpose x86 CPU cores. During large-scale DRS balancing or host […]

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vCenter Management Evolved: New vCenter Linking in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x

vCenter Management Evolved: New vCenter Linking…

For years, VMware administrators scaling out private clouds by deploying multiple workload domains have relied on Enhanced Linked Mode (ELM) to stitch together their vCenter Server instances into a single vSphere Client view. However, as environments have scaled, the operational burden of […]

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VCF 9.1 – Side-loading VCF binaries into VCF Installer & Fleet Depot Service for Air-Gapped Environments

VCF 9.1 – Side-loading VCF binaries into VCF…

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 continues to support side-loading, or direct upload, of VCF binaries into the VCF Installer, similar to VCF 9.0. However, there is now an additional workflow required after the VCF Fleet has been deployed, where the VCF management component binaries must also […]

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Capture a Namespace as a Blueprint in VMware Cloud Foundation

Capture a Namespace as a Blueprint in VMware…

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 has released tons of great new features! This blog focuses on an exciting feature update to VMware Cloud Foundation Automation 9.1: the ability to capture a vsphere namespace and then redeploy that environment as a catalog item. Generally developers require […]

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VCF 9.1 Brings Multi-Network Support to VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service

VCF 9.1 Brings Multi-Network Support to VMware…

Part 1 of a series on VKS Multiple Networks in VCF 9.1 TL;DR: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 and vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) 3.6 introduce declarative multi-NIC support for Kubernetes nodes, making VKS multi-network support a first-class platform capability. This first post covers the […]

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Stuck on vSphere 7 or 8? How to get to VCF 9.1 on your EXISTING Servers (No Hardware Refresh Required!) – #vExpert Christopher Kusek, PKGuild

Stuck on vSphere 7 or 8? How to get to VCF 9.1…

Hardware shortages shouldn’t strand your infrastructure. Discover how VMware erased the line in the sand, allowing legacy server support for your VCF 9.1 upgrade. – #vExpert Christopher Kusek

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VCF 9.1 Tag Management: Elevating Operational Governance

VCF 9.1 Tag Management: Elevating Operational…

In our previous deep dive into Introducing Centralized Tag Management in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, we explored how the introduction of VCF-level Tag Management began to break down the silos of individual vCenters. It set the stage for a “fleet-wide” mindset. With the release of VCF 9.1, we […]

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When Flash Shelves Replace Storage Nodes: Inside the vSAN JBOF Architecture — Barhum.ai

When Flash Shelves Replace Storage Nodes:…

VMware vSAN and Samsung’s JBOF reference design show what happens when you decouple flash capacity from compute — and why it matters for AI-ready infrastructure. – Eliran Barhum

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When AI Finds Vulnerabilities Faster Than You Can Patch — VCF 9.1 Has an Answer — Barhum.ai

When AI Finds Vulnerabilities Faster Than You…

AI models can now find zero-day vulnerabilities in hours, not months. The question is whether your infrastructure can keep up. VCF 9.1 was built for exactly this moment.

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Recovering from a ransomware attack with VCF Protection and Recovery 9.1 | Duncan Epping

Recovering from a ransomware attack with VCF…

VMware Live Recovery (or as it is called these days, VCF Protection and Recovery) provides a mechanism for both Disaster Recovery as well as Ransomware Recovery. In this demo I show you how you can recover a VM after an attack, while making sure that the data you restore is clean!

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VCF 9.1: What’s new?— Part 2 (Efficiency & Operation) | vSAN, live patching, Kubernetes and what changes during operation. vArNi.de

VCF 9.1: What’s new?— Part 2 (Efficiency &…

vSAN, live patching, Kubernetes and what changes during operation.

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