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The Gear Drop You’ve Been Waiting For Every year, the gear gets people talking—and this year is no exception. We’re excited to unveil the official backpack and t-shirt for VMware Explore 2025. These exclusive items are included only with a Full Event Pass (no add-ons, no exceptions), and […]
Today’s IT teams are under constant pressure to simplify operations, reduce costs, support new workloads, and do more with less. Yet as applications grow more complex, many organizations are juggling fragmented systems and siloed tools that slow them down. That’s where VMware vSphere Foundation [..]
The NVMe Tiering feature was first previewed with the release of vSphere 8.0 Update 3 and the feature is now officially supported with the release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0! 🎉 Since the original tech preview, all major limitations and unsupported workload profiles that would prevent [..]
If you have an AMD Ryzen processor and you are planning on use the NVMe Tiering feature with either VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) or VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, you will need to apply the following workaround for your VMs to properly boot. Note: This workaround is only required on AMD […]
vSAN ESA (Express Storage Architecture) has become the preferred architecture when deploying VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). For those interested in exploring vSAN ESA with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 but may not have compatible hardware from the vSAN ESA HCL, there are a couple of work- […]
By default, the new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 Installer will validate the ESXi management interface is at a 10GbE network adaptor and it will prevent users from proceeding if the minimum link speed is not detected. This pre-check had also existed in VCF 5.x and users could bypass the […]
In this blog, with the release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, we explore three separate technical use-cases for VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA. We show some of the high-level steps to achieve these use cases and give the rationale behind each one. Use Case 1: Models as a […]
For a major new vSphere release, it can be challenging to understand whether your existing hardware will continue to work or if you need to upgrade. During the development of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, I had put together a survey that would crowdsource from internal users who have […]
When we assign a full GPU or part of a GPU to a VM in the vSphere Client , we use a “vGPU Profile” to achieve that. The set of vGPU profiles is fixed by the host vGPU driver based on the GPU hardware models in the servers in that cluster. Many different vGPU profiles […]
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 supports two types of deployment mode for the applicable components (e.g. NSX Manager, VCF Operations, VCF Automation, etc), Simple (Single-node) or High Availability (Three-node). For Lab/Learning Purposes or Proof-of-Concepts, the Simple VCF deployment […]
