VCF Across Core, Edge, AI, and Recovery: Service Contracts and Ownership | Design VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell infrastructure across core, edge, AI, sovereign cloud, public-cloud adjacency, and disaster recovery. – #vExpert Paul Bryant VCF Across Core, Edge, AI, and Recovery:… Design VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell infrastructure across core, edge, AI, sovereign cloud, public-cloud … Read more
Installing and Activating VMware Intelligent Assist in VCF Operations – #vExpert Stephan McTighe Installing and Activating VMware Intelligent… What is VMware Intelligent Assist? In the UI it presents as an intuitive chat agent bolted onto VCF Operations that can query your inventory and findings on your behalf, rather than pasting log snippets into a generic … Read more
HDD attached to MacOS constantly rattling/spinning? – Duncan Epping HDD attached to MacOS constantly… I have an HDD attached to my Mac for backups and as storage for photos which are archived. (I don’t think this is MacOS version specific, but for me this happened with MacOS Tahoe 26.7. The last couple of days I … Read more
Will vSAN OSA Hybrid be available in future versions? – Duncan Epping Will vSAN OSA Hybrid be available in future… I’ve had this question three times in the past two weeks surprisingly enough, will vSAN OSA Hybrid be available in future versions? I thought most people would have known or heard by now, but apparently … Read more
Managing VKS Clusters at Scale: Improvements in VCF 9.1 Managing VKS Clusters at Scale: Improvements in… Introduction With VCF 9.0.1 we introduced VKS cluster management – a native, VCF-first capability for provisioning, governing, and operating VKS clusters without needing a separate management plane. We’ve heard a lot of great feedback since then, and in VCF … Read more
Governed Data for Agents Tanzu’s AI-Ready Data Foundations – #vExpert Mohammad “Sarge” Siddiqui Governed Data for Agents Tanzu’s AI-Ready Data… The hard part of enterprise AI was never the model. It’s letting an agent use enterprise data without giving it access to enterprise data. Tanzu’s answer is governed data products published to a marketplace. GA … Read more
A Real GPU Reference Architecture VCF 9.1 on Supermicro HGX, Down to the Cable | Two B200 nodes, one liquid-cooled and one air-cooled, 3.2 Tb/s of GPU fabric per node, and a four-host EPYC management domain. This is what the AI Factory announcement looks like when somebody actually builds it. – #vExpert Mohammad “Sarge” Siddiqui … Read more
Streamlining CI/CD on VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service with Harness, Wiz, Artifactory, Dynatrace and the VCF Secret Store Streamlining CI/CD on VMware vSphere Kubernetes… As enterprise organizations adopt VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF), the VMware vSphere® Kubernetes Service (VKS) becomes the bridge to modern scale, enabling platform engineering teams to deliver standardized Kubernetes environments on private cloud … Read more
Not all NVMe drives are created equal, especially for Memory Tiering. Learn why endurance, over-provisioning and steady-state performance matter, and why Mixed-Use drives are the right fit for sustained Memory Tiering workloads. Get the breakdown. Not all NVMe drives are created equal,… Not all NVMe drives are created equal, especially for Memory Tiering. Learn why … Read more
VCF 9.1.1 – Single ESX Host for VCF Fleet, VCF Workload Domain or VCF Cluster VCF 9.1.1 – Single ESX Host for VCF Fleet, VCF… For a production deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), there is a good reason why you might not want to run everything on a single ESX host. 😅 Assuming you … Read more