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…

VMware Advanced Cyber Compliance is Now Available to VCF Customers VMware Advanced Cyber Compliance is Now… 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…

DSM 9.0.1 – MySQL Database deployments through VCF Automation DSM 9.0.1 – MySQL Database deployments through… 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…

VCF Operations Management Packs: Announcing End… 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 [..] Broadcom Social Media Advocacy

DSM 9.0.1 – New Microsoft SQL Server enhancements Part 2 DSM 9.0.1 – New Microsoft SQL Server… 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…