Deploying the VCF Operations for Logs Appliance in VCF 9 – Virtualization Blog
Last week I completed my VCF 9 lab, which I will explain in more detail later, including hardware and overall lab design. Now I want to deploy VCF Operations for Logs in my home lab. Deploying VCF Operations for Logs is pretty straightforward. You first need to download the binary file and […]
Announcing the Next Evolution of VMware Certified Distinguished Expert (VCDX): The Certification for Private Cloud Experts
For over almost two decades, the VMware Certified Design Expert certification has stood as the pinnacle measurement for architects mastering VMware solutions – a globally recognized achievement of elite expertise. But as the private cloud landscape accelerates and our community’s needs evolve, […]
[Video]Commission ESXi Hosts & Creating a New Workload Domain in VCF 9 – Sargon Khizeran
The video below is walk through of commissioning ESXi hosts in a VCF 9.0 Management Domain vCenter and then creating a new Workload Domain with those hosts. The 3 hosts provisioned are my usual SuperMicro E300 with vSAN ESA. Check out the video and please let me know what you think or […]
VMware Cloud Foundation 9: Now Ready For All Storage
VCF 9 is Ready for All vSphere-supported External Storage | Building a private cloud on VMware Cloud Foundation™ (VCF) 9 necessitates careful consideration of storage options. Customers must weigh the benefits of each storage option based on their specific needs and existing investments to […]
VCF 9 – Deploying VCF Identity Broker
VCF Identity Broker Overview: VCF Identity Broker (vIDB) is the central identity intermediary between your identity provider (for example Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD) and VMware Cloud Foundation components such as vCenter, NSX and VCF Operations/Automation. By standardising federation […]
Excellent advice from Corey Romero for anyone considering the vExpert 2026 application. You don’t need a full year of contributions—just meaningful, recent impact. This “Q4 Sprint” approach is a must-read for anyone ready to step up their community involvement and recognition in the VMware ecosystem. 📘 Read the full post here:
It’s never too late to become a vExpert! Here are the things you can start doing to join the exclusive club of giving back to the community. If you’re looking at the calendar and thinking ‘I didn’t do enough this year,’ you might feel it’s too late to start contributing to the community. It’s […]
VMware Advanced Cyber Compliance is Now Available to VCF Customers
Following the announcement at VMware Explore earlier this year, we are now making a new Advanced Service generally available for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) customers. Starting November 3rd, VCF customers can purchase VMware Advanced Cyber Compliance, an offering engineered to elevate […]
DSM 9.0.1 – MySQL Database deployments through VCF Automation
In Data Services Manager 9.0.1, we decided to remove the ability to create MySQL Data Service Policies (DSP) from VCF Automation (VCFA) UI until we can also provision MySQL databases end-to-end. Even though you could create a Data Service Policy via the UI in VCFA 9.0/DSM 9.0, you still had to […]
Broadcom is announcing End of General Support (EOGS) for the following VCF Operations Management Packs. Consequently, Broadcom will no longer provide General Support, including Bug Fixes, Security Patches, or any updates for these Management Packs, effective September 30, 30th 2025. Alternative [..]
DSM 9.0.1 – New Microsoft SQL Server enhancements Part 2
In my most recent post, we saw how to setup a privileged user which would write SPNs for database users to enable Windows Authentication. We also saw how this user could update DNS entries automatically when a database is created. We followed these steps and provisioned a SQL Server instance. Once the instance was provisioned, we create a login for the owner and saw how the user could successfully login to the instance using Windows Auth. This is all great, but really one of the key points of…Read More
