VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

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

Identity Security for VMware Cloud Foundation –…

Identity is now the primary security perimeter. In the latest episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, we sat down with Lee Howard, Head of IAM Product Management at Broadcom, to explore how Identity Security for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) enables secure, scalable, zero trust access across modern private cloud environments. This episode is part of … Continued The post Identity Security for VMware Cloud Foundation – IAM, PAM, and Zero Trust Access appeared first on VMware Cloud Foundation…Read More

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VxRail – vSAN ESA Configuration Minimums | #vExpert David Ring

VxRail – vSAN ESA Configuration Minimums

When configuring vSAN ESA, it’s important to adhere to the following minimum requirements. Below is a quick reference table for supported VxRail models, minimum RAM, networking, storage, and CPU requirements.

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Automating vSphere VLAN Validation — A Complete Toolset #vExpert Paul van Dieën

Automating vSphere VLAN Validation — A Complete…

The Problem Anyone who has spent time managing VMware vSphere environments knows the pain of VLAN validation. You’ve just rolled out a new set of port groups, migrated a batch of VMs, or made […]

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Why Multi GPU Requires Topology Awareness – Frank Denneman

Why Multi GPU Requires Topology Awareness

Explains why distributed inference turns GPU communication into part of the critical path and why topology-aware scheduling is required when models span multiple GPUs.

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VCF 9 Day 2: Adding a new Workload Domain | #vExpert Christopher Lewis

VCF 9 Day 2 – Adding a new Workload Domain

Adding new VCF Workload Domain is now even simpler in VCF9! Let us walk through how easy it can be!

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Deploy VMs via the VCF Automation API – #vExpert Brock Peterson

Deploy VMs via the VCF Automation API

We’ve discussed the VCF Operations API and the Operations for Logs API several times over the years here, but haven’t touched on the VCF Automation API. Today we’re going to explore it. All screenshots here are taking from VCF Automation 8.18.1 Update 4.First off, the VCF Automation 8.18.1 API […]

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#114 – vSAN Storage Clusters with Kalyan Krishnaswamy! – Duncan Epping

#114 – vSAN Storage Clusters with Kalyan…

Recently there was a ⁠big announcement⁠ about the adoption of vSAN Storage Clusters by Audi. All the reasons for me to invite Kalyan back to the show. During this episode, Kalyan not only discusses what was announced specifically with Audi, but also goes over some of the recently introduced […]

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Capturing ESXi Installer Logs via iLO VSP on HPE Gen10 – #vExpert Kabir Ali, What Kabir Writes

Capturing ESXi Installer Logs via iLO VSP on…

The Problem: Sometimes an ESXi installation fails before you ever get useful logs. Instead of a clean error message, the installer simply crashes or reboots. If you are unlucky, you are left staring at a brief Purple Screen of Death (PSOD). […]

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Upgrading a vSphere 8 Brownfield Workload Domain to VCF 9: My Step-by-Step Guide – #vExpert Tarsio Moraes

Upgrading a vSphere 8 Brownfield Workload…

Welcome back! I’m going to walk you through exactly how I upgraded an imported vSphere 8 brownfield workload domain to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0.2. If you remember from my last post, we ran into a “back-in-time” trap when we initially tried to import this workload domain. I’ve since […]

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Broadcom is setting a new pace for the AI era.

We are proud to announce that our Tomahawk 6 family is now shipping in production volume!

Moving from initial sampling to full production in under eight months is an industry-leading milestone. This achievement is a testament to Broadcom’s relentless execution and our commitment to delivering “innovation at scale” for our customers.

As the trusted technology partner for the world’s most demanding networks, we are providing the breakthrough infrastructure needed to build faster, more efficient AI clusters today.

Our Tomahawk 6 family is now shipping in…

Moving from initial sampling to full production in under eight months is an industry-leading milestone. This achievement is a testament to Broadcom’s relentless execution and our commitment to delivering “innovation at scale” for our customers.

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VCF 9 Workload Domain Import – No Rebuild, No Re-Architecture | Did you know you can import your existing vCenter directly into VMware Cloud Foundation 9 as a Workload Domain — without starting from scratch? In this video, I walk you through the entire process live in my lab, from prerequisites all the way through to a fully imported Workload Domain inside VCF Operations. – #vExpert Shank Mohan

VCF 9 Workload Domain Import – No Rebuild, No…

Did you know you can import your existing vCenter directly into VCF 9 as a Workload Domain — without starting from scratch? In this video, I walk you through the entire process live in my lab, from prerequisites all the way through to a fully imported Workload Domain inside VCF Operations.

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Broadcom Community Programs for 2026

Broadcom Community Programs for 2026

The VMware ecosystem (now VMware by Broadcom) thrives on collaboration, knowledge sharing, and grassroots enthusiasm—fueled by community programs, recognition initiatives, content platforms, advocacy tools, and active social channels. These efforts connect professionals globally, amplify […]

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Announcing the 2026 vExpert Program | Congratulations to our New and Returning vExperts: Last week we officially kicked off the 2026 vExpert Program and Broadcom would like to say congratulations to the new and returning vExperts. Thank you for your continued leadership and contribution to the VMware community.

Announcing the 2026 vExpert Program

Congratulations to our New and Returning vExperts | Last week we officially kicked off the 2026 vExpert Program and Broadcom would like to say congratulations to the new and returning vExperts. Thank you for your continued leadership and contribution to the VMware community.

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The Dynamic World of LLM Runtime Memory | In the unpredictable world of production AI, where concurrent users, complex system prompts, and varying RAG content create constant flux, it is easy to view memory as an elusive target.

This article is designed to move your service level from probabilistic to deterministic concurrency. – Frank Denneman

The Dynamic World of LLM Runtime Memory

Explains how KV cache and context length drive LLM runtime memory growth and how this determines predictable GPU concurrency during inference workloads.

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Understanding Activation Memory in Mixture of Experts Models – Frank Denneman

Understanding Activation Memory in Mixture of…

Explains how activation memory behaves in Mixture of Experts models and why long-context and agentic inference introduce unpredictable activation peaks during prefill phases.

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Durable Agentic AI Sessions in GPU Memory | How agentic AI workloads accumulate KV cache across reasoning steps and tool calls and why this changes GPU memory planning for on prem infrastructure. – #vExpert Frank Denneman

Durable Agentic AI Sessions in GPU Memory

How agentic AI workloads accumulate KV cache across reasoning steps and tool calls and why this changes GPU memory planning for on prem infrastructure.

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How To Perform Real Workload Recovery With VMware Live Site Recovery

How To Perform Real Workload Recovery With…

Demonstration of Real Failover with VMware Live Site Recovery (VLSR), simulating failover of production Domain Controllers and clustered MSSQL Server workloads, without any administrative intervention beyond what’s pre-configured before the DR event.

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Deploying and Using the VMware Health and Security Toolkit (HST) | A complete walkthrough of deploying the VMware Health and Security Toolkit appliance and performing infrastructure health and security assessments. – Devyn Harrington

Deploying and Using the VMware Health and…

A complete walkthrough of deploying the VMware Health and Security Toolkit appliance and performing infrastructure health and security assessments.

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Deploying Intel TDX in VCF9 | This post walks through how to deploy and validate Intel TDX in VCF 9.0, using a modern Dell PowerEdge server (R760) as a reference platform. The steps apply to any server with TDX-capable Intel Xeon CPUs. – #vExpert Lukas Klinger, hcidude’s blog

Deploying Intel TDX in VCF9 – hcidude’s blog

A hands-on guide for infrastructure engineers | Confidential Computing is no longer a niche cloud feature – it’s moving into on-prem and private cloud platforms. With VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, VMware officially supports Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX), enabling virtual machines […]

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SOLVED: VCF Compute Manager Failed | Fix NSX Error 90204 (Invalid Certificate Chain) – #vExpert Piotr Tarnawski #vmware #vcf

SOLVED: VCF Compute Manager Failed | Fix NSX…

Are you stuck on the dreaded “Unable to configure fabric” error during your VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) bring-up? 🛑 The SDDC Manager UI tells you to check for “stale extensions”—but it’s sending you on a wild goose chase! In this video, I expose the REAL reason your NSX Compute Manager […]

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