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VCF Helping You Respond to PHP2Shell
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2026/10/23/vulnerability-response-vcf-php2shell/
Published: October 23, 2026 13:18
(Day 17 of 22 in our Cybersecurity Awareness Month series. Today: responding to a busy week of vulnerabilities) For information on Broadcom products and the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, see https://www.broadcom.com/php2shell. We are deviating from our posted…
Encryption Key Provider Design
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2026/10/23/key-provider-design/
Published: October 23, 2026 13:18
(Day 16 of 22 in our Cybersecurity Awareness Month series. Today: key provider design) Encryption makes data protection simpler, because once data is encrypted, keeping it safe comes down to protecting something much smaller, the keys, and making sure…
Easy Security Win: VCF Storage Encryption
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2026/10/23/vcf-storage-encryption/
Published: October 23, 2026 13:18
(Day 15 of 22 in our Cybersecurity Awareness Month series. Today: storage encryption) Some security work is hard; network segmentation means meetings with every application owner, and identity projects take years. Storage encryption is different. In VMware…
Save up to 62% on Storage TCO by Adopting VMware vSAN, According to New Analyst Research
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2026/10/23/signal65-storage-tco-october-2026/
Published: October 23, 2026 13:00
For over a year, IT infrastructure hardware costs have skyrocketed, and storage infrastructure has been along for the ride. In 2026 alone, contract prices for NVMe-based triple-level cell (TLC) devices have jumped over 100%1. While many IT leaders have…
VCF Breakroom Chats | Ep. 97 – Enabling GitOps on VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service with Harness
Published: October 22, 2026 23:56
In our latest VCF Breakroom Chat, I tackled modern application delivery and GitOps with Martin Reynolds, Field CTO at Harness. Coming off the excitement of VMware Explore, this episode dives into the synergy between our platforms and how we are working…
The Modern Compute Primitive: Why Declarative VM Management Matters Now (Introducing KubeVM Service)
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2026/10/22/introducing-kubevm-service/
Published: October 22, 2026 18:30
If you look at most enterprise production environments, there is still a noticeable gap: platform teams deploy Kubernetes workloads through GitOps pipelines, while VM provisioning still lives in a separate workflow, whether that’s a Terraform run, a…
Protecting Active Directory with VCF
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2026/10/22/protecting-active-directory/
Published: October 22, 2026 14:29
(Day 14 of 22 in our Cybersecurity Awareness Month series. Today: protecting Active Directory) For most organizations, Active Directory is the crown jewels. It’s where you define who can log in to what, it holds the credentials for nearly every account,…
Zero Trust Versus Identity Providers
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2026/10/22/zero-trust-identity-providers/
Published: October 22, 2026 14:29
(Day 13 of 22 in our Cybersecurity Awareness Month series. Today: zero trust and identity) Zero trust might be the most overused phrase in security marketing. Products claim to deliver it, architectures claim to embody it, and people ask for it because…
Tenant Connectivity on VCF 9.1: Choosing a Design and Running It in Production (Part 6)
Published: October 20, 2026 17:25
This article is part of a six-part series on tenant external connectivity for cloud providers running VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: Parts 2 to 5 built four complete designs for the source address of outbound tenant traffic on a VCF 9.1 multi-connection…
Tenant Connectivity on VCF 9.1: Serving the Data Center, Shared Services and the Internet from One Gateway (Part 5)
Published: October 20, 2026 17:24
This article is part of a six-part series on tenant external connectivity for cloud providers running VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: This part builds the third steady-state design, which combines the previous ones. The tenant is Riyadh: workloads on all…
Tenant Connectivity on VCF 9.1: When the Enterprise Must See Real Workload Addresses (Part 4)
Published: October 20, 2026 17:23
This article is part of a six-part series on tenant external connectivity for cloud providers running VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: This part builds the second steady-state design, in two variants. The tenant is Alex: workloads on a Private-TGW subnet,…
Tenant Connectivity on VCF 9.1: When Only Provider Addresses Are Allowed (Part 3)
Published: October 20, 2026 17:22
This article is part of a six-part series on tenant external connectivity for cloud providers running VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: Part 2 covered the six objects behind a multi-connection Centralized Transit Gateway, where each IP block comes from, and the…
Tenant Connectivity on VCF 9.1: What Decides a Packet’s Source Address (Part 2)
Published: October 20, 2026 17:21
This article is part of a six-part series on tenant external connectivity for cloud providers running VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: In VCF 9.1 a Centralized Transit Gateway (CTGW) can attach to more than one External Connection. One tenant gateway can hold…
Tenant Connectivity on VCF 9.1: A Standard Network Design for Cloud Providers (Part 1)
Published: October 20, 2026 17:19
This article is part of a six-part series on tenant external connectivity for cloud providers running VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: Every tenant that joins a provider cloud asks the same first question: where does my traffic need to go? The answers come…
Architecting Data Services for Microsoft SQL Server on VMware Cloud Foundation: A Best Practices Guide
Published: October 20, 2026 15:23
The article discusses the operational challenges faced by IT managers in scaling Microsoft SQL Server instances across departments. It highlights how VMware Cloud Foundation and Data Services Manager simplify deployment and management, automating lifecycle…
A Smarter, More Transparent Way to Forecast Capacity in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1.1
Published: October 20, 2026 13:42
Capacity planning in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) has always been about striking the right balance: giving IT teams the foresight needed to prevent resource exhaustion while maximizing hardware utilization. Over the years, the VCF capacity engine has been…
AI vs. the Fortress: Can Autonomous Agents Breach VMware Security?
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2026/10/19/ai-vs-vmware-security/
Published: October 19, 2026 14:16
According to the 2026 “Zero-Day Clock”, the time it takes an autonomous AI agent to write an exploit for a brand-new vulnerability has dropped from an entire year to just one day. In recent tests, these AI bots successfully hacked 87% of known flaws…
Snapshots Are Your Best Friend
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2026/10/16/snapshots-are-your-best-friend/
Published: October 16, 2026 22:58
(Day 12 of 22 in our Cybersecurity Awareness Month series. Today: VM snapshots) Snapshots might be the most underrated security tool in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). They are why you can patch a guest operating system on a weekday afternoon without…
What It Actually Takes to Run AI at Production Scale
Published: October 16, 2026 17:55
Every infrastructure team building for AI right now is wrestling with the same tension: move fast enough to keep up with the business, without architecting yourself into a cost and complexity problem you can’t walk back from. On October 29, Chris Wolf,…
Why vSAN ESA Only Supports NVMe Solid State Storage Devices
Published: October 16, 2026 15:45
Why can't vSAN ESA use spinning disks? Read on to learn why! The post Why vSAN ESA Only Supports NVMe Solid State Storage Devices appeared first on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog.