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Your VCF Upgrade: What to Keep, What to…
Your VCF Upgrade: What to Keep, What to Replace, and Where to Start Your VCF Upgrade: What to Keep, What to… Moving to VMware Cloud Foundation doesn’t have to mean starting from scratch. But how do you decide what to keep, what to retire, and where to begin? Recorded at VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha…
Architecting Governed Agentic AI: The Broadcom…
Autonomous AI agents are transforming enterprise workflows, but they bring a new set of security challenges that traditional controls weren’t designed to solve. Unlike conventional apps, agents can discover tools, delegate tasks, and trigger workflows independently. Securing them requires more than just model guardrails or static API scopes—it requires a dedicated runtime control plane. Our…
Modern Automation with VMware Cloud Foundation…
Modern Automation with VMware Cloud Foundation Part 1: Push-Button Infrastructure Provisioning Modern Automation with VMware Cloud Foundation… In a former life, I successfully automated ESX rollouts, livestock-style in what we’d call a “vSphere only” environment. The project was to automate the process of ESX bare-metal host provisioning: storage zoning, bare metal installation, ESX configuration, vCenter…
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Deploying the VCF Operations for Logs Appliance…
Deploying the VCF Operations for Logs Appliance in VCF 9 – Virtualization Blog Deploying the VCF Operations for Logs Appliance… 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.…
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Announcing the Next Evolution of VMware…
Announcing the Next Evolution of VMware Certified Distinguished Expert (VCDX): The Certification for Private Cloud Experts Announcing the Next Evolution of VMware… 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…
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[Video]Commission ESXi Hosts & Creating a New…
[Video]Commission ESXi Hosts & Creating a New Workload Domain in VCF 9 – Sargon Khizeran [Video]Commission ESXi Hosts & Creating a New… 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…
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9: Now Ready For All…
VMware Cloud Foundation 9: Now Ready For All Storage VMware Cloud Foundation 9: Now Ready For All… 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…
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VCF 9 – Deploying VCF Identity Broker _…
VCF 9 – Deploying VCF Identity Broker 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…
