Month: December 2025

The Next Wave of AI: Building Agentic AI on VMware Private Cloud | Aviv Waiss: We break down the bottom-up architecture built on VMware Private Cloud Foundation (VCF) and Tanzu that makes enterprise-grade Agentic AI possible, ensuring your sensitive data never leaves your firewall.

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The Next Wave of AI: Building Agentic AI on…

The Next Wave of AI is Here: Meet Your Autonomous Employee. Is your AI still just generating text and images? That’s about to change. The true evolution of AI isn’t just generating content—it’s autonomously executing complex, multi-step tasks for your business. This is Agentic AI: upgrading […]

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Erasure Codes in VMware vSAN versus Storage Arrays

Erasure Codes in VMware vSAN versus Storage Arrays

Data availability is a core competency of enterprise storage systems. For decades, these systems have attempted to deliver high levels of data availability while ensuring that performance and space efficiency expectations are also met. Achieving all three at the same time is not easy. Erasure […]

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Broadcom is expanding VMware Modernization Services to EMEA, enabling distributors to deliver partner-designed consultative packages that simplify and speed VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 deployment for small and mid-sized enterprises.

With @TD SYNNEX as the charter distributor, the program gives partners a straightforward way to offer implementation, upgrade, and modernization services at the point of sale as it scales across the region.

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Broadcom Expands VMware Modernization Services…

Broadcom is enabling distributors across EMEA to deliver consultative services that help small and medium-sized enterprises accelerate private cloud adoption and streamline VMware platform deployment. This expansion builds on Broadcom’s earlier VMware Modernization Services initiative launched with TD SYNNEX in the United States.

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Certificate for ‘Host.domain’ doesn’t match any of the subject alternative names – irgNET

Certificate for ‘Host.domain’ doesn’t match any…

Before starting your VCF deployment, you should prepare your ESX servers. One part of this preparation is the topic of certificates.

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This opportunity occurs twice a year and many may wonder if they should apply or the benefits of the #vExpert program. I never really looked deep enough into the program or saw a need until a few years ago. Since then, I wish I had applied sooner. – Rodney Barnhardt

Why I Chose to Become a VMware vExpert and You…

This opportunity occurs twice a year and many may wonder if they should apply or the benefits of the #vExpert program. I never really looked deep enough into the program or saw a need until a few years ago. Since then, I wish I had applied sooner. – Rodney Barnhardt

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This guide provides a deep, end-to-end walkthrough of the upgrade journey—from preparation and compatibility validation through the actual upgrade sequencing and post-upgrade verification. – #vExpert Randhir Chaubey

Upgrading a vSphere 8.x Environment to VMware…

The release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 marks a major shift in how modern private cloud platforms are engineered and managed. For organizations operating a vSphere 8.x environment, the path to VCF 9.0 introduces a more modular architecture, […]

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Automating VCF Operations Objects & Metrics Reporting

Automating VCF Operations Objects & Metrics…

The number of objects and metrics collected by VCF Operations in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 plays a critical role in determining the size and scale of your VCF Fleet. Using the VCF Operations UI, you can navigate to Administration->Control Panel->Cluster Management to view the cluster management-level stats but this only provides a subset of […]

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Automating the Reporting of VCF Workload Domain Import Pre-Check Validations

Automating the Reporting of VCF Workload Domain…

After completing the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Workload Domain Import workflow, I realized it would be helpful to be able to view the pre-check validations outside of the VCF Operations UI, especially if there are multiple pre-checks that have failed. While the VCF Operations UI provides a […]

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What happens after a Site Takeover when my failed sites come back online again? – Yellow Bricks

What happens after a Site Takeover when my…

I got a question after the previous demo: what would happen if, after a Site Takeover, the two failed sites came back online again? I completely ignored this part of the scenario so far, I am not even sure why. I knew what would happen, but I wanted to test it anyway to confirm that […]

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VMware VCF – Delete failed tasks from SDDC Manager

VMware VCF – Delete failed tasks from SDDC Manager

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), deleting failed tasks is often necessary to avoid clutter in the SDDC Manager UI and free up resources. Failed tasks can also block further operations, especially credential rotation tasks. Deleting failed tasks can help maintain a clean and organized SDDC Manager [..]

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In this guide, I will walk you through the process of deploying VCF Operations Orchestrator 9 using the OVA method, followed by the necessary command-line configurations to get your authentication up and running. – #vExpert Cosmin Trif

Deploying an External VCF Operations…

In this guide, I will walk you through the process of deploying VCF Operations Orchestrator 9 using the OVA method, followed by the necessary command-line configurations to get your authentication up and running. – #vExpert Cosmin Trif

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If you find yourself in a situation where the default log bundles aren’t providing enough fidelity, you need to peel back the layers of the Analytics service. Here is how to enable advanced debugging to pinpoint exactly where your notification plugins are failing. – #vExpert Cosmin Trif

Troubleshooting notification plugins in VCF…

If you find yourself in a situation where the default log bundles aren’t providing enough fidelity, you need to peel back the layers of the Analytics service. Here is how to enable advanced debugging to pinpoint exactly where your notification plugins are failing. – #vExpert Cosmin Trif

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VxRAIL – Identify NVMe Drive Model Details

VxRAIL – Identify NVMe Drive Model Details

You can query the NVMe drive inventory from the ESXi console using the following command: esxcli storage core nvme path list | grep “Device Display Name” In this example, the system reports ten 3.2TB NVMe drives: Use iDRAC to confirm how many drives are installed in your VxRail node and which […]

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Quick Tip – Using VCF CLI to login to vSphere Supervisor when configured with VCF Automation

Quick Tip – Using VCF CLI to login to vSphere…

When a vSphere Supervisor Cluster is configured to be consumed by VCF Automation, the Identity Provider (IdP) for that vSphere Supervisor is automatically configured to redirect to VCF Automation (VCFA) as an OIDC relay. When an end user wishes to access or manage their resources, they will be directed to the IdP that has been […]

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Making Harbor Production-Ready: Essential Considerations for Deployment

Making Harbor Production-Ready: Essential…

Harbor is an open-source container registry that secures artifacts with policies and role-based access control, ensuring images are scanned for vulnerabilities and signed as trusted. To learn more about Harbor and how to deploy it on a Virtual Machine (VM) and in Kubernetes (K8s), refer to […]

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NVMe Memory Tiering Design and Sizing on VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Part 3: Sizing for Success

NVMe Memory Tiering Design and Sizing on VMware…

So far in this blog series, we have highlighted the value that NVMe Memory Tiering delivers to our customers and how this is driving adoption. Who doesn’t want to reduce their cost by ~40% just by adopting VMware Cloud Foundation 9?! We’ve also touched on pre-requisites, and hardware in Part 1 […]

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Critical Bug in VCF – VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 & 9.0.1: SSO Failure After Password Rotation

Critical Bug in VCF – VMware Cloud Foundation…

A few days ago, I encountered a serious issue in my environment that every VMware administrator should be aware of. This bug affects VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) versions 9.0 and 9.0.1, specifically the Single Sign-On (SSO) integration with external identity providers such as Active Directory (AD).

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Application vs Infrastructure-Level High Availability with vSAN

Application vs Infrastructure-Level High…

In this ep, Pete and John talk with VMware’s Pete Koehler about one of the most important design choices in modern infrastructure: application-level vs infrastructure-level high availability. Pete also shares new updates to vSAN ReadyNodes, including major reductions in RAM and CPU requirements [..]

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In this video we will cover how we can manage certificates in VCF 9. We will discuss what a Certificate Authority (CA) and Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) are and how to set them up in VCF 9. We will also take a look at a new feature that allows Automatic Certificate Management.

Certificate Management in VMware Cloud…

In this video we will cover how we can manage certificates in VCF 9. We will discuss what a Certificate Authority (CA) and Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) are and how to set them up in VCF 9. We will also take a look at a new feature that allows Automatic Certificate Management.

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Does vSAN Site Takeover also work with a 2-node configuration?

Does vSAN Site Takeover also work with a 2-node…

I got a question last week if vSAN Site Takeover also works with a 2-node configuration, and my answer was: yes it should work. However, I had never tested it, so I figured I would build a quick lab environment and see if I was right. I recorded the result, here it is!

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