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VCF Networking 9.1: Seamless DDI Integration with Infoblox

VCF Networking 9.1: Seamless DDI Integration…

Related VCF Networking 9.1 Posts: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) provides a robust suite of self-service networking capabilities (as covered in our VCF Networking 9.1 post Network Services), including native IP Address Management (IPAM). However, the reality for many enterprise environments is that they already rely on an established, third-party tool to manage the IP addresses … Continued The post VCF Networking 9.1: Seamless DDI Integration with Infoblox appeared first on VMware Cloud…Read More

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VCF Networking 9.1: Exploring Network Services for Virtual Private Clouds

VCF Networking 9.1: Exploring Network Services…

Related VCF Networking 9.1 Posts: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) delivers the compute, storage, and networking services required to power modern cloud environments. In this blog, we focus specifically on the network services available within VCF 9.1 Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Note: For a refresh into the fundamentals of VCF VPCs, check out our previous posts:Self-service … Continued The post VCF Networking 9.1: Exploring Network Services for Virtual Private Clouds appeared first on VMware…Read More

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VCF Networking 9.1: Simpler VPC Connectivity Control

VCF Networking 9.1: Simpler VPC Connectivity…

Related VCF Networking 9.1 Posts: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) provides a robust suite of self-service networking capabilities (as covered in our previous post: [Link to: VCF 9.1 – Network Services]) In this blog, we zoom in on a powerful new feature introduced in VCF 9.1: Connectivity Policy for Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Taking Control of … Continued The post VCF Networking 9.1: Simpler VPC Connectivity Control appeared first on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog.

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Too many infrastructure teams are running just to stay in place. The pressure is coming from three directions at once. DRAM prices have skyrocketed as much as 170% year over year. AI demand is accelerating faster than most platforms can support. And the attack surface just keeps growing. The natural (but flawed) reaction is to solve these challenges separately by bolting on new tools. That’s how you end up with fragmentation, and what was already complex just gets even harder to manage. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 is designed to stop that drift…

Too many infrastructure teams are running just…

DRAM prices have skyrocketed as much as 170% year over year. AI demand is accelerating faster than most platforms can support. And the attack surface just keeps growing. The natural (but flawed) reaction is to solve these challenges separately by bolting on new tools…Read More

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Accelerate modern app delivery on VMware Cloud Foundation. vDefend and Avi now offer zero-touch deployment for VKS clusters. 🚀 Experience L4-L7 Kubernetes ingress and zero-trust security built directly into your private cloud engine.

Enhance Lateral Security and Ingress Load…

VKS adoption is accelerating. Through our work with enterprise customers deploying production Kubernetes workloads on VMware Cloud Foundation, we’ve learned a critical lesson: the networking and security choices you make can either enable or undermine your Kubernetes success. Traditional […]

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VCF 9.1 – Updated VCF Design Blueprints & VCF Fleet Latency Diagrams for VCF Architects

VCF 9.1 – Updated VCF Design Blueprints & VCF…

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 is now generally available! 🥳 In addition to the revamped VCF 9.1 Technical Documentation which includes the 9.1 release notes, which everyone should be reviewing in detail, we have released a number of new resources for our VCF architects and practitioners […]

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VCF 9.1 is here!

Watch our new Virtually Speaking series featuring 9️⃣ dedicated episodes with VCF experts.

Explore how to scale AI workloads, automate deployments, strengthen cyber resilience, and more. 🎥 See the series on YouTube:

New Virtually Speaking series featuring 9️⃣…

VCF 9.1 is here! Watch our new Virtually Speaking series featuring 9️⃣ dedicated episodes with VCF experts. Explore how to scale AI workloads, automate deployments, strengthen cyber resilience, and more. See the 🎥 series on YouTube:

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In this 1‑hour webinar, Intel and VMware will walk through a live Private AI demo running on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 with Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX) to accelerate CPU-based inference. Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 11:00 AM CST. Join us!

Webcast | Walkthrough: Build a Private AI…

In this 1‑hour webinar, Intel and VMware will walk through a live Private AI demo running on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 with Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX) to accelerate CPU-based inference. You’ll see how to run a chatbot entirely inside a private […]

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#768 – Automating ESXi Host Preparation for VCF 9 with Paul van Dieen | Paul joins the podcast with Eric and Bob to talk about his blog article covering ESXi host preparation for VCF 9 with Powershell. Always great to hear about the small things we discover that can be automated with Powershell. WE, May 13 at noon Pacific.

#768 – Automating ESXi Host Preparation for VCF…

Paul joins the podcast with Eric and Bob to talk about his blog article covering ESXi host preparation for VCF 9 with Powershell. Always great to hear about the small things we discover that can be automated with Powershell.

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Introducing VMmark 4.1: Enhanced Power Efficiency Benchmarking for Private Cloud Infrastructure

Introducing VMmark 4.1: Enhanced Power…

VMware VMmark 4.1 builds upon the solid foundation of VMmark 4.0, introducing a significant new capability that addresses one of today’s most critical data center concerns: energy efficiency. As organizations worldwide prioritize sustainable IT operations and seek to reduce their power […]

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VCF 9.1: Past the AI Hype, a Solid Maturity Release – #vExpert Tommy Grot

VCF 9.1: Past the AI Hype, a Solid Maturity…

Broadcom announced VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 on May 5th, 2026, and the messaging across the press release and the dozen-plus supporting blog posts all converges on the same theme: “AI and Kubernetes native private cloud.” If you read all of them, you’d think the headline is AI. It isn’t […]

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Auto-RAID in VMware vSAN for VCF 9.1 – Comprehensive System-Managed Data Resilience

Auto-RAID in VMware vSAN for VCF 9.1 –…

With every new release comes new features and enhancements. Some capabilities and their benefits are obvious, but target specific challenges and situations. Other enhancements seem subtle and perhaps easy to overlook, but impact multiple features, and benefit nearly every customer in their day-[…]

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VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: What’s New | Discover the main new features in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, including Kubernetes improvements, vSAN enhancements, security updates, and easier lifecycle management. #vExpert Valentin Collin

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: What’s New

Discover the main new features in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, including Kubernetes improvements, vSAN enhancements, security updates, and easier lifecycle management.

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Infoblox Integration in VCF 9.1

Infoblox Integration in VCF 9.1

This video introduces the native integration between VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 and Infoblox, presented by Dimitri Desmidt. The integration brings VCF logical networks under Infoblox management so that DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) for both physical and virtual environments can […]

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VPC Connectivity Control in VCF 9.1

VPC Connectivity Control in VCF 9.1

Dimitri Desmidt introduces VPC connectivity control, a networking capability in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 that lets administrators group VPCs and govern east-west communication between them at the network layer. The feature adds three policy types that can be assigned to a VPC: […]

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VCF 9 – Post 2 | Home Lab Validation: Official Requirements vs. Available Environment. #vExpert Fabio Santos Gomes

VCF 9 – Post 2 | Home Lab Validation: Official…

In the first post, I introduced the general idea of ​​the project: setting up a simple environment featuring VMware Avi Load Balancer + vSphere Supervisor using VDS on VCF 9. Now comes a less glamorous—yet essential—part: validating whether my home lab is capable of supporting this design.

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VCF 9 – Post 3 | Network Design for AVI + Supervisor with VDS. #vExpert Fabio Santos Gomes

VCF 9 – Post 3 | Network Design for AVI +…

The Supervisor documentation regarding VDS and Avi clearly states that the environment requires the separation of network functions: the Management Network, the Avi Data Network, and the Supervisor Workload Network. The Avi Controller and the Service Engines’ management interfaces reside […]

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VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: The reality of simplification.

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: The reality of…

Infrastructure leaders are being squeezed by a three-way pressure system: 1️⃣ DRAM prices are skyrocketing. 2️⃣ AI demand is accelerating. 3️⃣ The attack surface is growing. Most organizations try to solve these challenges separately. The result isn’t better performance, it’s more fragmentation. VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 changes the math. We’re delivering up to a 40% reduction in server costs and a 70% increase in deployment speed. Not by adding more tools, but by unifying the ones you have. This isn’t the promise of simplification. It’s the reality of it. Watch the video and learn what’s new in VCF 9.1: https://go-vmware.broadcom.com/whats-new-in-vcf

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VCF 9.1 – New HTTP Offline Depot Support for VCF Installer & Fleet Depot Service

VCF 9.1 – New HTTP Offline Depot Support for…

VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 introduced the concept of a unified VCF Software Depot, which can connect to either Broadcom’s online repository or an offline depot that is hosted within an organizations environment. By default, an offline VCF Software Depot requires HTTPS with basic authentication. In VCF 9.0, HTTPS can […]

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#767 – Tommy Grot Talks Virtual Tooling and VirtualBytes Blog with Eric and Bob | Join the conversation on WE, May 6 at noon Pacific.

#767 – Tommy Grot Talks Virtual Tooling and…

Tommy Grot has an amazing blog with great technical articles from 9.x topics around tiered memory to deployment fails with 9.0.1 to VCF 9 Expansion and vMotion vmkernel limitations.

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