Combining Multiple App IDs and Layer 4 Services in a Single vDefend Rule – #vExpert Saurabh Bhattacharya
The discussion revolves around the use of multiple Layer 7 App IDs in DFW rules. CuriousTechie seeks guidance on combining two App IDs while using specific Layer 4 ports, which leads to a restriction error. ITGuy explains that using a single context profile allows for such combinations, but […]
Optimizing AI Deployments with VMware Cloud Foundation (Part 2)
Maximizing GPU Utilization for Best Total Cost of Ownership Introduction VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) can help enterprises maximize utilization and optimize AI infrastructure. To demonstrate VCF’s efficiency and flexibility for running AI workloads in various configurations, the Broadcom […]
Installing and Activating VMware Intelligent Assist in VCF Operations – #vExpert Stephan McTighe
What is VMware Intelligent Assist? In the UI it presents as an intuitive chat agent bolted onto VCF Operations that can query your inventory and findings on your behalf, rather than pasting log snippets into a generic LLM. So lets look at how we can enable and make use of this new feature. […]
VCF 9.1: Fixing an Exhausted NSX TEP Pool | Exhausted NSX TEP pool in VCF 9.1? Learn how to extend the IP range or assign a new pool in the Transport Node Profile, step by step. – #vExpert H. Cemre Günay, irgNET
Exhausted NSX TEP pool in VCF 9.1? Learn how to extend the IP range or assign a new pool in the Transport Node Profile, step by step.
Will vSAN OSA Hybrid be available in future versions? – Duncan Epping
I’ve had this question three times in the past two weeks surprisingly enough, will vSAN OSA Hybrid be available in future versions? I thought most people would have known or heard by now, but apparently that is not the case. With the release of VCF 9.0, and vSAN 9.0, a deprecation notice was […]
From Dashboards to Dialogue: Agentic Observability on VCF
What happens when AI becomes a new way to interact with your infrastructure? At VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha and guest host Dave Linthicum talk with Scott Rosenberg about agentic observability on VMware Cloud Foundation. Scott explains how agents and MCP servers could bring insights from multiple tools into a more useful conversation, and why the quality of the data and the design of the agents matter more than simply adding more copilots. They also discuss when to use AI instead of traditional automation, how private AI can help protect sensitive operational data, and why agent access should be tied to individual users. For teams getting started, Scott recommends testing models against a real use case, beginning with read-only…Read More
Demystifying VKS Networking with VCF – #vExpert Avnish Tripathi
A full walk of the VKS data path on NSX — from the physical NIC to pod eth0 — with the address rewrites measured in a live lab rather than assumed.
One Namespace to Rule Them All: The New esxcli memtier Namespace
Memory Tiering is a great way to get more out of your ESX hosts, and managing it from the command line just got a whole lot easier. Let me explain why that matters. In VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, working with Memory Tiering from the CLI meant using two namespaces: esxcli system […]
Quick Tip – Improved NVMe Tiering Device Health Monitoring in VCF 9.1 – William Lam
Unfortunately, one of my consumer-grade NVMe SSD devices that I had configured for NVMe Tiering (Memory Tiering) in my VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1.1 environment had recently degraded. While vCenter Server had raised an alarm stating “NVMe Memory Tiering device is not healthy.”, […]
Host placement for the secondary FT VM with Fault Domains? – Duncan Epping
On Reddit there was a question about how to specify on which group of hosts the secondary VM of an FT-enabled VM would land on. Now this is a problem that has been around for a while, and for the longest time we actually did not have a solution for it, but now we do. […]
Memory Tiering aware vSphere HA Admission Control in VCF/vSphere 9.1.1! – Duncan Epping
To be fair, I have not had many customers complain about the fact that vSphere HA Admission Control was not Memory Tiering aware, but if you had concerns then it is good to know that this problem was resolved with the 9.1.1 release of VCF/vSphere. For those who never gave it any thought even, […]
Coming to cities across the globe, Explore on Tour offers a curated selection of sessions and Hands-on Labs from Explore in Las Vegas. Gain access to key partners, regional leaders, subject matter experts, and local community members.
Coming to cities across the globe, Explore on Tour offers a curated selection of sessions and Hands-on Labs from Explore in Las Vegas. Gain access to key partners, regional leaders, subject matter experts, and local community members.
WE, Sept. 16 – Brett Guarino, the VCDX program manager, joins the show to talk about what it means and how he has been working to reboot the VCDX community since May of 2026.
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Brett Guarino owns the VCDX program, and they actually had their first candidate present at Explore in Las Vegas. WE, Sept. 16, Brett joins the show to talk about what it means and how he has been working to reboot the VCDX community since May of 2026.
VMware Explore 2026 in Las Vegas Media Kit | Access all essential news, press releases, articles, and video highlights from VMware Explore 2026 in Las Vegas. Discover how VMware Cloud Foundation is driving the next era of cloud infrastructure, cyber resilience, & application modernization.
Bookmark this page to find every major announcement.
Access all essential news, press releases, articles, and video highlights from VMware Explore 2026 in Las Vegas. Discover how VMware Cloud Foundation is driving the next era of cloud infrastructure, cyber resilience, & application modernization. Bookmark this page to track every major announcement.
Identity Providers and Access Controls in VCFA 9.1.1 for Native Object Storage – Cormac Hogan
In a previous post, I highlighted how to get started with Native Object Storage which is in tech preview in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9.1.1. In that post, we saw the role of the Provider Admin and the Organization Admin in VCF Automation (VCFA). We saw that the Provider Admin could […]
Quick Tip – Automating vDefend Security Services Platform (SSP) 5.2.0 Installer OVA Deployment
Given the current security threats from Frontier AI, vDefend Security Services Platform (SSP) was top of mind for many attendees at the recent VMware Explore 2026. Since it had been some time since I last deployed an earlier version of SSP, I wanted to get some hands-on time with the latest […]
First VMmark 4.1 Power-Performance and VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 Results
We’re excited to announce two new VMmark results today from Dell Technologies: Using the exact same servers, processors, and storage array, the new VCF 9.1 results outperformed VCF 5.2 with an 11% higher performance score and a 10% higher tile count. This means that for this environment, simply [..]
Put Newly Built ESX Hosts into Operations Maintenance Mode until they go Live – #vExpert Brock Peterson
You’re building ESX Hosts and don’t want to be Alerted on them until they go live, how to do it? Of course, you can log into VCF Operations and put the specific Host/s into Operations Maintenance Mode via the UI if you’d like. You can put them into Operations Maintenance Mode via API if you’d […]
Bucket Policies in VCFA 9.1.1 for Native Object Storage – Cormac Hogan
In an earlier post on object storage, we look at the role privieges that VCF Automation users could be assigned within an organization. Since the scope of object storage privileges is at the project level, we also looked at the role of Project Admins and Project Advanced Users. within a project.
Distributed Malware Prevention & Sandboxing for VCF with VMware vDefend – Part 1: Architecture. | #vExpert Harikrishnan T
In the modern AI era of threat defense, we are not just defending against human adversaries, but also with the frontier AI era of autonomous exploits designed to bypass perimeter security, discover, chain and exploit software vulnerabilities and spread laterally at machine speeds. A proper […]
