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VCF 9.1: From AI Hype to Production Reality | AI is easy to demo but hard to run in production. In this episode, Pete and John sit down with Chris Wolf, Global Head of AI at Broadcom, to break down what it actually takes to operationalize AI.

VCF 9.1: From AI Hype to Production Reality

AI is easy to demo but hard to run in production. In this episode, Pete and John sit down with Chris Wolf, Global Head of AI at Broadcom, to break down what it actually takes to operationalize AI. They explore how customers are moving from experimentation to real-world Private AI on VMware Cloud …Read More

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VCF9 Automation – Part 1: Provider Networking, Edge Clusters, VPC Foundations and Supervisor cluster | Armando Pacchioni

VCF9 Automation – Part 1: Provider Networking,…

After spending some time exploring all the capabilities of VCF Automation and having worked for many years with VMware Cloud Director, I can confidently say that there are significant architectural differences between the two products. As many of you already know, VCF Automation is […]

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Breaking ELM Between Two VCF Instances to Restore a Supported Upgrade Path | #vExpert Chris Kitchens

Breaking ELM Between Two VCF Instances to…

A real-world VMware Cloud Foundation field note on breaking a cross-instance Enhanced Linked Mode topology.

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I Passed the VCP-VCF Administrator Exam — Why I Took It | #vExpert Chris Kitchens

I Passed the VCP-VCF Administrator Exam — Why I…

Why I decided to pursue and pass the VCP-VCF Administrator exam, and why it mattered for my lab, my work, and where VMware is heading.

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VMs with Tags, How to find them via the VCF Operations API | #vExpert Brock Peterson

VMs with Tags, How to find them via the VCF…

We’ve discussed vSphere Tags in VCF Operations a couple times before: • vSphere Tags and Custom Attributes in VCF Operations • vSphere Tags on Clusters in Aria OperationsI wanted to capture all VMs with a certain vSphere Tag via the VCF Operations API, it didn’t work exactly like expected, here [..]

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What’s New with Kubernetes on VCF | VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and vSphere Kubernetes Service enable enterprises to deploy and manage all modern applications. Join us to hear about the latest capabilities and innovations in VKS that help secure, scale, and accelerate AI and modern workloads without increasing cost and complexity. Wednesday, May 13th. 10:00 AM (US Pacific)

Webinar | What’s New with Kubernetes on VCF

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and vSphere Kubernetes Service enable enterprises to deploy and manage all modern applications. Join us to hear about the latest capabilities and innovations in VKS that help secure, scale, and accelerate AI and modern workloads without increasing cost and complexity.

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VCF Operations Alerts on vCenter adminstrator@vsphere.local Password Changes | #vExpert Brock Peterson

VCF Operations Alerts on vCenter…

I wanted to know when the administrator@vsphere.local password changed on my vCenter, this is how I did it.

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PowerShell 7.4 Modules: Versions and Management Overview, including the code used to generate the list – from #vExpert Mayank Goyal

PowerShell 7.4 Modules: Versions and Management…

PowerShell 7.4 Modules: Versions and Management Overview, including the code used to generate the list – from #vExpert Mayank Goyal

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VCF Operations for Logs Integrations | #vExpert Brock Peterson

VCF Operations for Logs Integrations

For those if you running VCF Operations for Logs 8.18.x, ever wonder what this is? Yeah, me too. Documentation can be found here, but I wanted a bit more detail, here’s what I found. […]

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Unified VCF Product Releases & Versioning

Unified VCF Product Releases & Versioning

Starting with VCF 9.0, all VMware Cloud Foundation Components and supporting tools will use a different versioning convention from previous VCF releases and individual component releases. This new versioning convention will replace all prior product release version formats from VCF 9.0 forward. [..]

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VCF 9 Licensing: A New Model, A Real Shift | #vExpert Luciano Patrao

VCF 9 Licensing: A New Model, A Real Shift

This is not a cosmetic change. It is a structural one that affects how you design your management domain, plan upgrades, and run Day 2 operations on your private cloud. In this post, I want to walk through what actually changed, what I think works well, where I have concerns, and what you […]

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Automation simplifies the process, but strategy secures the result. Gareth Lewis, Broadcom Knight at Xtravirt explains why expert-led discovery and planning remain the essential foundation for deploying your VMware Cloud Foundation 9-based private cloud.

The Best VMware Cloud Foundation Deployments…

The VCF 9 installer makes private cloud feel effortless — but that’s exactly the danger. Before you hit next, here’s why understanding your environment and mapping every entity to the new world is the difference between success and stalled projects.

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Less than 24 hours away | Last chance to register. It is not too late! Join us for the first public look inside the next planned release of VMware Cloud Foundation. The briefing starts at 8am US Pacific Time.

Less than 24 hours away! Join us May 5th

Last chance to register. Share with your customers, it is not too late! Make sure they do not miss the first public look inside the next planned release of VMware Cloud Foundation. The briefing starts at 8am US Pacific Time.

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Stop Guessing: Advanced Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Data Services

Stop Guessing: Advanced Monitoring and…

The VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) transforms database management by providing in-depth visibility and unifying database metrics with the VMware Cloud Foundation. This allows for quicker troubleshooting and proactive alerts, ultimately enhancing database performance. It shifts the focus […]

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I Built a Tool to Stop YAML Hell During Cloud → VCF 9 VKS Migrations | #vExpert Avnish Tripathi

I Built a Tool to Stop YAML Hell During Cloud →…

Last quarter I was knee-deep in a customer migration project — moving production workloads from EKS to VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) on VCF 9. The architecture made sense: consolidate onto VCF, get NSX VPC networking, vSAN storage, and ditch the monthly AWS bill. Standard stuff. […]

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Does your private cloud security solution align with NIST CSF 2.0?

Now available! The VMware vDefend Product Applicability Guide for NIST CSF 2.0 offers clear guidance on how VMware vDefend’s Zero Trust defense-in-depth capabilities align with NIST CSF 2.0 requirements.

Download the guide for an informed view of how vDefend can strengthen your compliance posture.

#vmware #privatecloudsecurity #nist #cybercompliance #zerotrust | VMware vDefend

Now available! The VMware vDefend Product…

Does your private cloud security solution align with NIST CSF 2.0? Now available! The VMware vDefend Product Applicability Guide for NIST CSF 2.0 offers clear guidance on how VMware vDefend’s Zero Trust defense-in-depth capabilities align with NIST CSF 2.0 requirements. Download the guide for […]

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Replicating VMware vSphere Configuration Profile Desired State

Replicating VMware vSphere Configuration…

vSphere Configuration Profiles allows VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) administrators to manage the ESX host configuration at a cluster level. In this article, we discuss how to easily replicate configuration from one cluster to another cluster. Note: Screenshots and steps described are based on […]

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Quick Tip: High CPU Utilization on ESX due to Slow Entropy from AMD Zen 4 CPUs

Quick Tip: High CPU Utilization on ESX due to…

I had been troubleshooting a stubborn CPU utilization issue with a workload that, over time would also overrun the CPU on my physical ESX host. The assumption was that the workload was causing the issue, but after several rounds of collecting various ESX performance statistics, there […]

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Securing GPU-Accelerated AI Workloads – VMware vDefend on VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA

Securing GPU-Accelerated AI Workloads – VMware…

A hands-on walkthrough of deploying VMware vDefend across the NVIDIA NIM RAG blueprint on VCF and VKS. We translate NSX DFW rules into AntreaClusterNetworkPolicies via the NSX-Antrea Interworking adapter, enforce East-West micro-segmentation across both VMs and Kubernetes pods, and validate […]

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VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 — Administrator Deep Dive (2v0-17.25) -| While preparing for the VCP-VCF Administrator exam, I put together this guide for myself — and figured it might be useful to share with others going down the same path. It covers all eight objectives in the blueprint, built from the official VCF 9.0 documentation and training materials. #vExpert Lukasz Tworek, vWorld

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 — Administrator…

A Practitioner’s Guide While preparing for the VCP-VCF Administrator exam, I put together this guide for myself — and figured it might be useful to share with others going down the same path. It covers all eight objectives in the blueprint, built from the official VCF 9.0 documentation and […]

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