Tag: VCF 9.1
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VMware Explore 2026 recap: what Broadcom announced in Las Vegas
What Broadcom announced at VMware Explore 2026 Las Vegas, what is GA today, what is roadmap, and what VCF customers in India should do next.
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VCF Design Diagrams Cheatsheet for VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1
An interactive reference for the VMware Cloud Foundation 9 design models. Pick a fleet blueprint or a distributed switch model on the left and get its diagram, published attributes, design requirement identifiers and the failure mode that catches people out.
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VMware Private AI Foundation Upgrade: Moving from VCF 9.0 to 9.1 Without Breaking Your GPUs (Private AI Series, Part 24)
A practical 9.0 to 9.1 upgrade runbook for VMware Private AI Foundation, plus a closing verdict on the platform after 24 parts. The order of operations, the vGPU driver branch trap, and host-by-host GPU domain remediation.
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VMware Private AI Foundation Planning and Prerequisites: GPU Hosts, Drivers and Readiness (Private AI Series, Part 4)
A practitioner’s planning guide for VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA on VCF 9: GPU host selection, the vGPU driver and GPU Operator interoperability matrix, sharing-mode choices, and the readiness checks that decide whether your first deployment lands clean.
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VMware Private AI Foundation Architecture and Components, Layer by Layer (Private AI Series, Part 2)
VMware Private AI Foundation is five layers, not one box. A reference walk through every PAIF component on VCF 9.1: the GPU platform, DSM with pgvector, Private AI Services, and the single-zone limit you have to design around.
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What VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA Actually Is (Private AI Series, Part 1)
Part 1 of the VMware Private AI Series: a clear, opinionated explainer of what PAIF really is, what it is not, the components that do the work, and when it earns its license on VCF 9.1.
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9: Lessons From the Whole Series and My Verdict (VCF 9 Series, Part 37)
The capstone to the 36-part VCF 9 series: the through-line, the five decisions that decide every program, what 9.1 fixed, where the platform still bites, and a straight verdict on who should adopt it now.
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How to Upgrade VMware Cloud Foundation to 9.1: The Full-Stack Runbook (VCF 9 Series, Part 23)
VCF Operations now drives lifecycle, so the 9.1 upgrade starts there, not at SDDC Manager. Here is the full-stack sequence, the new Management Services CIDR and License Appliance prep, and the three failures that bite.
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Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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