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🔥🗞️ Super slick PowerCLI script for deploying #VCF9 Edge using a Single-Node vSphere Supervisor w/ArgoCD at SCALE! 👏

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#VCF9

vSAN Data Protection in VMware Cloud Foundation – The Solution You Already Own With a flurry of announcements and new capabilities offered in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, it is sometimes easy to overlook relatively new features hidden in plain sight. Protecting data in a p...

Very nice post and reminder from Pete Koehler - vSAN Data Protection in VMware Cloud Foundation, the solution you already own!

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#VCF9

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 cus...

🆕VMware Advanced Cyber Compliance offer is now available to #VCF Customers blogs.vmware.com/cloud-founda...

New KB in adding additional principal storage types (iSCSI, NFS v4.1, and NVMe over Fabrics (FC or TCP)) with #VCF9 using the Converge/Import workflows

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[🆕] - Retrieving the vSAN Cluster Shutdown VMs running Pre-Check Results using PowerCLI williamlam.com/2025/11/retr...

VERY nice uber KB for all things #VCF knowledge.broadcom.com/external/art...

🔖 This is definitely a bookmark! Cheers to support folks for putting this together 👏

📣 PSA: In case you're planning to upgrade to VCF 9.0.1, make sure to review this KB regarding permissions issue on VCF Operations Fleet Management Appliance that prevents DB from starting

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GitHub - lamw/vmware-explore-2025-session-urls: VMware Explore 2025 Session URLs VMware Explore 2025 Session URLs. Contribute to lamw/vmware-explore-2025-session-urls development by creating an account on GitHub.

All VMware Explore 2025 on-demand breakout sessions will be available to the general public tomorrow!

Make sure to 🔖 bookmark github.com/lamw/vmware-... and get your #VCF9 learning on 🧠

Provided feedback to our docs team to include password complexity for (auto-password generation) using VCF Installer.

See "Password creation" for details techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

Gary has nice post on retrieving generated passwords using API my-cloudy-world.com/2025/08/28/v...

#VCF9

VCF 9.0.1 is officially GA! 🥳

📒RN: techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

💿DL: support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/pr...

JFYI - Seeing some folks refer to VCF 9.0.1 as 9.0 Update 1, that is not correct.

9.0.1 is maintenance release for VCF

👉https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/410435/unified-vcf-product-releases-versioning.html is good resource to understand the new VCF versioning semantics going forward

[🆕] - Quick Tip - Retrieving ESXi Host Fingerprint for VCF Installer JSON deployment williamlam.com/2025/09/quic...

Quick Tip - Custom JSON for Deploying VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) with Custom TLS Certificates ESXi hosts deployed with a custom CA signed TLS certificate can be consumed by either VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.x Cloud Builder or 9.x VCF Installer using a custom JSON deployment manifest. A…

[🆕] - Quick Tip - Custom JSON for Deploying VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) with Custom TLS Certificates williamlam.com/2025/09/quic...

[🆕] - Automating VCF 9.0 Operations License Registration & Import for Air-Gapped Environments williamlam.com/2025/09/auto...

Extreme Performance Series 2023: vCenter Concurrency The Extreme Performance Series is back for 2023!  The video blog series covers the highlights of recent performance work on VMware technology. In this video, Todd Muirhead talks with Ravi Soundararaja...

Since this was just asked - The vSphere Concurrency Numbers for 8.x still apply to 9.0, which you can find more detail in this blog series 👇

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Deploying VMware Cloud Foundation Instance with Terraform: Step-by-Step Guide This blog post provides a detailed guide for deploying VCF Instance using Terraform. It covers prerequisites, installation steps for Terraform and VCF, and necessary configurations in Terraform fil…

Nice blog post showing how to use Terraform to deploy both the #VCF9 Installer & deploying 🆕 VCF Fleet! 👍

(JFYI: Always useful to include an About page, no clue who the author is, but keep up good work!)

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NSX-T Multi-Location Design Guide (Federation + Multisite)

Design Guide version for NSX-T 9.0 release is 1.0 done on 09/16/2025

#PrivateCloud #VMware #SDDC #VCF9 #SDN #NSX9

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Stephen Evanchik (Architect behind VCD & now VCFA) provides some great insights/history in #CLOB1108LV on how #VCF9 Automation finally brings together the best of vSphere, vRA & VCD into a modern consumption platform for your workloads

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Dave Morera has great technical nuggets in his Deep Dive into Memory Tiering with NVMe! event.vmware.com/flow/vmware/...

In fact, I just learned you can disable NVMe Tiering on Per-VM. Sadly, this doesn't bypass Nested Virtualization, but can help w/other workloads!

#CLOB1122LV #VCF9

🆕 Whitepaper for Deploying VMware Private AI on VCF using NVIDIA HGX Servers, Broadcom Thor 2 NICs & Tomahawk 5 Switches 🔥

Very useful configuration optimizations in WP, worth checking out if you're considering VMware Private AI! 🧠

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#VCF9

Definitely recommend #CLOB1511LV as Dimitri is one of the presenters, who helped demystify VCF Networking using VPC for me!

As he likes to say, don't need an NSX tattoo 🧑‍🎨 to use VPC. In #VCF9, its easily accessible in vCenter & LIVE demo makes it clear

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Want to Deep Dive on #VCF9 Automation?

🧠 Check out #CLOB1760LV w/Shanky & Maher for all the concepts / capabilities w/VCFA

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🤓 Check out #CLOB1754LV w/Maher & Vincent for step-by-step hands on guide, no slides, just demos!

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[🆕] - Updated method for automatically joining vCenter Server using ESXi Kickstart williamlam.com/2025/09/upda...

☝️Works for both ESXi 8.x & 9.x

Adding an Existing VCF Instance to a VCF Fleet This is a scenario that is not covered very well in our current VCF 9.0 docs (I am working to rectify that), where a customer has more than 1 existing VCF 5.x instance and they want to move to VCF …

Nice post from Brian O'Connell on how to re-home a VCF Instance from one #VCF9 Fleet to another! 🤙

Consolidation and/or M&A is a common use case for needing this, so good to hear VCF already supports this natively

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[🆕] - Automated VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9.0 Lab Deployment Script williamlam.com/2025/09/auto...

☝️#VVF9 was technically already supported, but having an example 📄 would probably help 😅