From Visibility to Enforcement, Part 0: What SSP Is and How It’s Wired – Abhilash Pillai
A plain-language tour of the vDefend Security Services Platform: what it is, how it connects to NSX Manager and your ESXi hosts, and how one connection travels from a VM to a published firewall […]
Why VMware Memory Tiering is Not Just Swapping to NVMe
Why VMware Memory Tiering is not just swapping to NVMe Memory is one of the most expensive resources in the data center, and workloads keep asking for more of it. We pack more VMs onto each host to get the most out of the hardware investment, but DRAM has a ceiling, both physical and financial.
Beyond the Virtual Network: AI-Powered Network Observability for VCF
Network performance issues don’t stop at the edge of your virtual infrastructure. From physical switches and WAN connections to public clouds and SaaS applications, understanding the entire network is critical to maintaining application performance and accelerating troubleshooting. Recorded live at VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson welcome back Alec Pinkham to discuss the latest innovations in VMware Network Observability and how it extends visibility beyond VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). Alec shares how new capabilities are making network operations quieter, easier, and smarter through intelligent alerting, AI-assisted root cause analysis, and deeper integration with VCF Operations for Networks. In this episode, we…Read More
Autonomous AI agents are transforming enterprise workflows, but they bring a new set of security challenges that traditional controls weren’t designed to solve. Unlike conventional apps, agents can discover tools, delegate tasks, and trigger workflows independently. Securing them requires more than just model guardrails or static API scopes—it requires a dedicated runtime control plane. Our latest white paper, “Architecting Governed Agentic AI,” details how Broadcom’s AgentMinder addresses the Agentic Control Gap. We explore how to: • Establish verifiable, mission-scoped agent identities. • Enforce intent-aware authorization in the execution path, before tool calls reach your systems. • Maintain clear accountability with correlated runtime evidence. • Scale autonomous workflows while keeping security, operations, and audit teams in the loop. Read the full white paper to learn how to move from static permissions to risk-aware, governed autonomy. #AgenticAI #Broadcom #CyberSecurity #AgentMinder #AIgovernance
This asset is a longer white paper that describes in detail how AgentMinder establishes identity, enforces intent, controls delegation, and produces runtime evidence for autonomous AI agents. It is intended for security/enterprise architects. Please share with your networks.
VCF Operations 9.1.1 Log Visibility Only | While writing the previous blog regarding Logs Data Sets another idea came to me, what if I wanted to provide visibility into just Logs via the VCF Operations 9.1.1 UI and nothing else, how would I do that? Here’s how! – #vExpert Brock Peterson
While writing the previous blog regarding Logs Data Sets another idea came to me, what if I wanted to provide visibility into just Logs via the VCF Operations 9.1.1 UI and nothing else, how would I do that? Here’s how!
Upgrading VCF Real-Time Metrics Store to 9.1.1 Step by Step | A step-by-step walkthrough of upgrading the VCF Real-Time Metrics Store from 9.1.0.0200 to 9.1.1 through VCF Operations, including prechecks, workflow monitoring, and validation. – #vExpert Cosmin Trif
A step-by-step walkthrough of upgrading the VCF Real-Time Metrics Store from 9.1.0.0200 to 9.1.1 through VCF Operations, including prechecks, workflow monitoring, and validation.
Upgrading VCF Log Management to 9.1.1 Step by Step | A step-by-step walkthrough of upgrading VCF Log Management from 9.1.0.0400 to 9.1.1 through VCF Operations, including backups, prechecks, workflow monitoring, and validation. – #vExpert Cosmin Trif
A step-by-step walkthrough of upgrading VCF Log Management from 9.1.0.0400 to 9.1.1 through VCF Operations, including backups, prechecks, workflow monitoring, and validation.
VCF Operations Metric Picker – #vExpert Brock Peterson
I was pulling ESX Host metric values from the VCF Operations API this morning and wrote a script to get just what I wanted, basically just curl commands against the REST API surface. As I finished I thought, this could be much more robust and cool if it had a GUI option. Here’s what I came up with!
Tenant Connectivity on VCF 9.1: Serving the Data Center, Shared Services and the Internet from One Gateway (Part 5)
This article is part of a six-part series on tenant external connectivity for cloud providers running VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: This part builds the third steady-state design, which combines the previous ones. The tenant is Riyadh: workloads on all three subnet types, Public, Private-TGW and [..]
VCF High Availability, Explained as a Human Body | Which VCF components come as a pair and which do not, why a cluster is three nodes when a body gets by with two kidneys, and what vSphere HA is really doing underneath all of it. – #vExpert Arun Nukula
Which VCF components come as a pair and which do not, why a cluster is three nodes when a body gets by with two kidneys, and what vSphere HA is really doing underneath all of it.
Major Enhancements to VCF 9.1 Upgrade Planner Tool | William Lam
The VCF Upgrade Planner was launched back in May and the reception and feedback from our users has been incredible. With over 90,000 visits in just a few months, it has quickly become an essential resource for helping customers and partners create a custom-tailored runbook for their specific […]
Setting up an AVI cluster for the VI Workload Domain on VCF 9.1 – #vExpert Anuj Jain
Setting up an AVI cluster in the VI Workload Domain on VCF 9.1 This blog continues the blog “https://vxlearners.com/2026/07/12/2037/”. In that blog, we saw how to deploy AVI controllers using SDDC Manager. However, in version 9.1, this functionality moved from SDDC Manager to VCF Operations. […]
Heading to VCF 9? Move vSphere Replication to Protection and Recovery – Gustavo Novello
Move standalone vSphere Replication to VCF Protection and Recovery 9.1 while still on vSphere 8.0 U3: prerequisites, Enhanced Replication and convergence.
Applying VCF 9.1.1 Express Patch 2 to your VCF Management Services – #vExpert Brock Peterson
We recently released VCF 9.1.1 Express Patch 2, Release Notes can be found here. For a review of VCF Express Patches check out William Lam’s blog on the topic here. There is a nice KB available here as well, which details VCF versioning. […]
Streamline Your VMware Cloud Foundation Upgrades: What’s New in the VCF 9.1 Planner Tool
Upgrading a full-stack private cloud environment is no small feat. For VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) administrators, aligning component compatibility, sequencing updates, and minimizing downtime can feel like solving a moving puzzle. Fortunately, the VCF Upgrade Planner, launched earlier this […]
New Whitepaper: Architecting a Governed, Multi-Tenant Private AI Cloud with VCF 9
Multi-Tenancy Is the Engine of the Modern Private AI Cloud The private cloud is undergoing a profound transformation. Today’s enterprise IT organizations are tasked with supporting diverse, resource-intensive workloads, spanning AI, Kubernetes / containers, and virtual machines, on shared […]
VMSA-2026-0008.1: Critical Brotli RCE in SDDC Manager and how to mitigate it – #vExpert Piotr Tarnawski
If you run VMware Cloud Foundation, check your SDDC Manager version and get the appropriate workaround into your change process. Broadcom’s VMSA-2026-0008.1 addresses CVE-2026-111497, a remote code execution vulnerability in the Node.js Brotli decoder used by SDDC Manager.
What stood out at #VMwareExplore 2026?
From AI-assisted operations and NVMe memory tiering to performance and security innovations, Virtualization Review’s Tom Fenton shares his key takeaways.
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Tom Fenton recaps VMware Explore 2026, including VCF 9.1 updates, AI operations, TrueSource, customer deployments, certification changes, and the conference’s new Las Vegas venue for 2027.
Why vSAN ESA Only Supports NVMe Solid State Storage Devices
Why can’t spinning disks be used with vSAN ESA? The recent hardware shortages with servers and storage have encouraged customers to look at every conceivable way to lower costs, and this question occasionally comes up in that effort. Some customers contend that their application demands […]
Eleven Management Packs in One Day: What VCF Operations Just Became | Eleven at once is unusual. Management packs normally trickle out on their own schedules. A simultaneous release of that size usually means something changed underneath them all, and in this case something did. – #vExpert Mohammad “Sarge” Siddiqui
On 3 September 2026, the same day VCF 9.1.1.0 shipped, eleven VCF Management Packs reached general availability at version 9.1.1.0. Eleven at once is unusual. Management packs normally trickle out on their own schedules. A simultaneous release of that size usually means something changed […]
