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Inside VCF 9.1: Platform, Lifecycle, and What’s Different Now | VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 introduces a wide range of improvements across the platform, and in this episode, Pete and John sit down with William Lam to walk through the updates that matter most to practitioners.

Inside VCF 9.1: Platform, Lifecycle, and What’s…

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 introduces a wide range of improvements across the platform, and in this episode, Pete and John sit down with William Lam to walk through the updates that matter most to practitioners. From zero-touch provisioning and faster patching to fleet management, real-time […]

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VCF 9.1 – Comprehensive ESX Configuration Workarounds for Lab Deployments

VCF 9.1 – Comprehensive ESX Configuration…

With the announcement of VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, I know many of you are eager to start planning for 9.1 and get it into your lab environment for hands-on experience as the first step toward pre-production validation. Unless you are among the few […]

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VCF 9.1 – Comprehensive VCF Installer & SDDC Manager Configuration Workarounds for Lab Deployments

VCF 9.1 – Comprehensive VCF Installer & SDDC…

With the announcement of VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, I know many of you are eager to start planning for 9.1 and get it into your lab environment for hands-on experience as the first step toward pre-production validation. Unless you are among the few with adequate resources, including servers listed […]

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Export and Import vCenter Custom Roles with PowerShell – #vExpert Paul van Dieën

Export and Import vCenter Custom Roles with…

If you have ever spent time carefully building custom roles in vCenter — defining exactly which privileges a monitoring account, a backup service, or a Tanzu user needs — you know how tedious it is to recreate those same roles on a second vCenter. There is no native export button in the vSphere [..]

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Topology-Aware Multi-GPU VM Placement, Architecting AI Infrastructure Series – Part 11 – Frank Denneman

Topology-Aware Multi-GPU VM Placement

Explains why distributed inference turns GPU communication into part of the critical path and why topology-aware scheduling is required when models span multiple GPUs.

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vSphere HA setting Performance degradation VMs tolerate – Duncan Epping

vSphere HA setting Performance degradation VMs…

There was a question this week internally and I really had to start digging, as I have not looked at this in a loooong time. What does “Performance degradation VMs tolerate” do? And does this feature require admission control to be enabled or not? I had to test this, as I barely ever play […]

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Understanding Unified Memory on DGX Spark Running NemoClaw and Nemotron – Frank Denneman

Understanding Unified Memory on DGX Spark…

NemoClaw became the talk of GTC 2026 within hours of its announcement. It wraps OpenClaw in NVIDIA’s OpenShell runtime, adds guardrails, and gives you an always on AI agent with a single install. Jensen Huang called OpenClaw the operating system for personal AI. NemoClaw is what makes that usable.

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MIG Partitioning, Placement Geometry, and Stranded Capacity; Architecting AI Infrastructure — Part 8. – Frank Denneman

MIG Partitioning, Placement Geometry, and…

A deep dive into MIG partitioning, placement geometry, and stranded capacity in GPU infrastructure for AI workloads.

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Why Multi GPU Requires Topology Awareness; Architecting AI Infrastructure Series – Part 9 – Frank Denneman

Why Multi GPU Requires Topology Awareness

Explains why distributed inference turns GPU communication into part of the critical path and why topology-aware scheduling is required when models span multiple GPUs.

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Understanding Multi-GPU Topologies Within a Single Host; Architecting AI Infrastructure Series – Part 10
– Frank Denneman

Understanding Multi-GPU Topologies Within a…

Explains why distributed inference turns GPU communication into part of the critical path and why topology-aware scheduling is required when models span multiple GPUs.

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