VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Webcast | Beyond vSAN: Optimizing VCF with External Storage. In this session, we’ll take a technical, administrator-focused look at running VMware Cloud Foundation with Pure Storage FlashArray. We will move past the basics to explore how VCF fleets, instances, and workload domains consume principal and supplemental storage via Fibre Channel and NFS.

Webcast | Beyond vSAN: Optimizing VCF with…

In this session, we’ll take a technical, administrator-focused look at running VMware Cloud Foundation with Pure Storage FlashArray. We will move past the basics to explore how VCF fleets, instances, and workload domains consume principal and supplemental storage via Fibre Channel and NFS.

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VMware vDefend: Advanced Network and Identity Security for VCF | In this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson are joined by Jad El-Zein and security expert Chris McCain to talk about VMware vDefend and its role as an advanced security service for VMware Cloud Foundation.

VMware vDefend: Advanced Network and Identity…

Security has changed. It is no longer enough to focus on the perimeter and hope attackers never get inside. Modern threats are designed to move laterally through the environment using common protocols and predictable patterns. That is why security today is less about protecting everything and […]

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vSAN – Fix a problem with an absent disk | Recently, I came across an issue in a vSphere cluster at a customer. Some vSAN disks were absent. This blog post will show you how I solved it. #vExpert Karl Widmer, driftars Blog

vSAN – Fix a problem with an absent disk -…

Recently, I came across an issue in a vSphere cluster at a customer. Some vSAN disks were absent. This blog post will show you how I solved it.

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VMware Private AI on Consolidated VCF: Starting Small with Enterprise-Grade GenAI in Your Datacenter – #vExpert Gabi Nuñes

VMware Private AI on Consolidated VCF: Starting…

VMware Private AI is bringing generative AI much closer to traditional datacenter teams. What I like is how it runs fully on-premises on top of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), so you can keep control of performance, security and, especially, your private data while still giving data scientists […]

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Install VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA using VCF Automation

Install VMware Private AI Foundation with…

VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA streamlines the deployment of AI workloads by offering several ready-to-use catalog items for your users. These include an AI workstation powered by a deep learning virtual machine (DLVM) with pre-installed AI/ML frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow, […]

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vSAN Stretched Clusters Explained – Site-Level DR with VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 (OSA vs ESA) – #vExpert Eric Sloof

vSAN Stretched Clusters Explained – Site-Level…

In this video, we take a complete look at VMware vSAN Stretched Clusters based on the official Broadcom whitepaper by Pete Koehler (December 2025). We cover how stretched clusters provide site-level disaster recovery with near-zero RPO using synchronous data mirroring across two sites, powered […]

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VCF 9 – VKS with NSX VPCs and AVI – #vExpert Steven Schramm

VCF 9 – VKS with NSX VPCs and AVI

In my last blog post I wrote about the integration of VKS with NSX and VPCs. As LoadBalancer I used the NSX native version and the AVI integration was not done. In addition to the last blog post I will describe now how VPCs can be used for VKS in combination with AVI. If you already used AVI […]

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VMware Cloud Foundation Operations View 9.x – What are Dashboards and How Do We Create Them? – #vExpert Stephen DeBarros

VMware Cloud Foundation Operations View 9.x -…

In this video we will discuss the built-in dashboards that are built-in to VCF Operations as well as how to create a custom dashboard. We will also discuss What a Widget is, and look at some of the predefined widgets that are available.

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VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 1: Fleets, Instances, Domains, and the Fleet Management Layer – #vExpert Paul Bryant

VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 1: Fleets,…

Learn the VCF 9.0 GA mental model with clear definitions of fleet, instance, management domain, and workload domains. Get a practical ownership map, blast radius guidance, and topology patterns for single site, two sites, and multi-region.

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VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 2: Fleet Services vs Instance Management Planes (and Who Owns What) – #vExpert Paul Bryant

VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 2: Fleet Services…

Build an accurate VCF 9.0 GA mental model by separating fleet-level services from per-instance management planes. Learn what runs where, day-0 to day-2 ownership, SSO boundaries, and topology patterns for single site, two sites, and multi-region.

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Building Red Hat UBI Images for vSphere Kubernetes Service – Prateek Jain, worker-node.com

Building Red Hat UBI Images for vSphere…

In this blog we’ll walk through creation of Red Hat UBI Image in an internet restricted environment for consumption in VKS Environments.

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VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 3: Day-0 to Day-2 Ownership Across Fleets, Instances, and Domains | If you want clean accountability in VCF 9.0, anchor your operating model to the official hierarchy: [..] This post translates that hierarchy into an operating model: who owns what, where day-0/day-1/day-2 work happens, and how topology (single site vs two sites vs multi-region) changes your posture. – #vExpert Paul Bryant

VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 3: Day-0 to Day-2…

If you want clean accountability in VCF 9.0, anchor your operating model to the official hierarchy: [..] This post translates that hierarchy into an operating model: who owns what, where day-0/day-1/day-2 work happens, and how topology (single site vs two sites vs multi-region) changes your posture.

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Automating vSphere Configuration Profile APIs – Part 2 – PowerCLI and Python Sample Code

Automating vSphere Configuration Profile APIs –…

Welcome back to our series on Automating vSphere Configuration Profile (VCP). In Part 1, we broke down the core VCP APIs and how they maintain the “desired state” of vSphere clusters. Now, it’s time to get hands-on with the code. This blog post explains how to consume these APIs using the tools [..]

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Bringing “Out-of-the-Box” Modern Identity to Your Infrastructure with VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0

Bringing “Out-of-the-Box” Modern Identity to…

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0’s unified SSO has streamlined the authentication process by eliminating the need to manage individual components. This proven capability continues to reduce administrative overhead while providing a more seamless experience for admins. Admins log in just once […]

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Why Network Observability by Broadcom is Essential for Hybrid Cloud Success

Why Network Observability by Broadcom is…

Network Observability by Broadcom, offered as an Advanced Service for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), becomes indispensable, bridging critical visibility gaps and empowering organizations to realize the full value of their cloud investments. VCF is the backbone for modern private and hybrid […]

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VCF 9.0 – How to Set Up a VCF Offline Depot – #vExpert Thomas Rodrigues

VCF 9.0 – How to Set Up a VCF Offline Depot

If you decide to deploy VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, one of the first tasks is to download the binaries you will use during the deployment. Broadcom provides two methods for doing this: […]

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Avoiding Network Conflicts in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0: How to Change the Default Docker Bridge Subnet (172.17.0.0/16) on Operations Fleet Manager – #vExpert Tommy Grot

Avoiding Network Conflicts in VMware Cloud…

In VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, the Operations Fleet Manager appliance comes with Docker pre-installed to support containerized services. By default, Docker configures its primary bridge network (docker0) using the 172.17.0.0/16 CIDR range. While this works fine in isolated environments, […]

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Maintaining Trust: SSL Certificate Renewal in VMware VCF Automation – vChamp #vExpert Don Horrox

Maintaining Trust: SSL Certificate Renewal in…

Prerequisites and Assumptions: +This article assumes that your Automation environment is load-balanced with certificate passthrough (where the load balancer does not provide the certificate) and there are multiple Automation nodes in your cluster; +Ensure you have arranged […]

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VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 6: Topology and Identity Boundaries for Single Site, Dual Site, and Multi-Region – #vExpert Paul Bryant

VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 6: Topology and…

Scope: VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.0.0 GA (primary platform build 24703748) and the associated 9.0 GA BOM levels for key components: +SDDC Manager: 9.0.0.0 build 24703751; +vCenter: 9.0.0.0 build 24755230; […]

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VCF 9 Commission Hosts | #vExpert Batuhan Demirdal, VİRTUALİZATİON ‎BLOG

VCF 9 Commission Hosts | VİRTUALİZATİON ‎BLOG

Commission Hosts is the process of formally adding new physical ESXi hosts to a VMware Cloud Foundation 9 environment. During this process, the hosts: [Content in Turkish. Translatable]

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