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VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 75 –  Breaking the GitOps Barrier: Continuous Delivery for Modern Apps with VCF 9
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/12/04/vcf-breakroom-chats-episode-75-breaking-the-gitops-barrier-continuous-delivery-for-modern-apps-with-vcf-9/
Published: December 4, 2025 13:00
VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 75 Welcome to the next episode of the VCF Breakroom Chats. Today, we are happy to present this vLog with Jad El-Zein, Principal Technologist at Broadcom.  In this episode, Jad El-Zein and Taka Uenishi explore how VCF 9…
VMware Cloud on AWS: What’s New (December 2025)
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/12/02/vmware-cloud-on-aws-whats-new-december-2025/
Published: December 2, 2025 18:58
Updated: 12/02/2025 At Broadcom, we are focused on helping customers modernize their infrastructure, improve resiliency, and simplify operations – without adding complexity for their teams to manage. Over the past few months, we’ve released several updates…
What’s Next for Cloud Native: Highlights from KubeCon North America 2025
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/12/02/whats-next-for-cloud-native-highlights-from-kubecon-north-america-2025/
Published: December 2, 2025 14:37
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America once again brought together thousands of developers, maintainers, operators, and end users from across the cloud native ecosystem. More than 9,000 attendees gathered in Atlanta, with nearly half joining for the first…
NVMe Memory Tiering Design and Sizing on VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Part 3: Sizing for Success
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/12/02/nvme-memory-tiering-design-and-sizing-on-vmware-cloud-foundation-9-part-3/
Published: December 2, 2025 12:00
So far in this blog series, we have highlighted the value that NVMe Memory Tiering delivers to our customers and how this is driving adoption. Who doesn’t want to reduce their cost by ~40% just by adopting VMware Cloud Foundation 9?! We’ve also touched on…
Making Harbor Production-Ready: Essential Considerations for Deployment
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/12/02/making-harbor-production-ready-essential-considerations-for-deployment/
Published: December 2, 2025 11:58
Harbor is an open-source container registry that secures artifacts with policies and role-based access control, ensuring images are scanned for vulnerabilities and signed as trusted. To learn more about Harbor and how to deploy it on a Virtual Machine (VM)…
VMware Cloud Foundation Automation – Consume and Deploy Virtual Machines and Kubernetes Clusters
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/12/01/vmware-cloud-foundation-automation-consume-and-deploy-virtual-machines-and-kubernetes-clusters/
Published: December 1, 2025 16:00
In our previous blog, we talked about how an organization admin leveraging VMware Cloud Foundation Automation enables their organization to be effectively ready for application teams to self-serve and provision infrastructure and applications. In this…
Reducing Harbor Deployment Complexity on Kubernetes
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/11/25/reducing-harbor-deployment-complexity-on-kubernetes/
Published: November 25, 2025 10:01
Streamline your Harbor deployment on Kubernetes. Learn the deployment progression: from Helm to VKS Packages to VCF 9 Supervisor Service
The post Reducing Harbor Deployment Complexity on Kubernetes appeared first on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog.
VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 74 – From VI Admin to Private Cloud Architect: New VCAP & VCDX Certification Explained
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/11/21/vcf-breakroom-chats-episode-74-from-vi-admin-to-private-cloud-architect-new-vcap-vcdx-certification-explained/
Published: November 21, 2025 13:00
VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 74 Welcome to the next episode of the VCF Breakroom Chats. Today, we are happy to present this vLog with Drew Nielsen, Head of Value Tooling and Technical Certification at Broadcom. In this episode, Drew Nielsen and Taka…
Upgrading VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 to 9.0: Webinar Takeaways
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/11/20/upgrading-vmware-cloud-foundation-5-2-to-9-0-webinar-takeaways/
Published: November 20, 2025 17:18
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 represents a significant leap forward in architectural unification and operational management. While the upgrade from 5.x is designed to be streamlined, it introduces mandatory changes in management methodologies and…
Operationalizing the Edge with VMware Cloud Foundation
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/11/20/operationalizing-the-edge-with-vmware-cloud-foundation/
Published: November 20, 2025 16:22
As organizations extend operations beyond the data center, the edge has become a vital part of their digital strategy. Whether in retail outlets, manufacturing plants, healthcare facilities, energy plants or remote branch offices, IT teams want…
Mapping VLAN Tags to Virtual Private Cloud Subnets
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/11/20/mapping-vlan-tags-to-virtual-private-cloud-subnets/
Published: November 20, 2025 15:49
In a typical virtualized environment, a VM sends untagged traffic from its virtual NIC (vNIC). By default, the virtual switch drops any traffic that carries an 802.1Q VLAN tag. To allow this traffic, a feature known as Guest VLAN Tagging (GVT) must be…
VMware Cloud Foundation is the Gold Standard for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/11/19/vmware-cloud-foundation-is-the-gold-standard-for-virtual-desktop-infrastructure/
Published: November 19, 2025 19:10
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) delivers unmatched benefits for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Even after the spin-out of VMware’s End User Computing (EUC) business group into Omnissa, the fundamentals of this combined solution remain intact. However,…
VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 73 – Next-Gen Data Services: The DBaaS Revolution with VCF 9
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/11/19/vcf-breakroom-chats-episode-73-next-gen-data-services-the-dbaas-revolution-with-vcf-9/
Published: November 19, 2025 13:00
VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 73 Welcome to the next episode of the VCF Breakroom Chats. Today, we are happy to present this vLog with Michael Gandy, Technology Product Management at Broadcom. In this episode, Michael Gandy and Taka Uenishi explore how VCF…
Unified Authentication in VMware Cloud Foundation SDK 9.0: Seamless authentication across vSphere and vSAN APIs
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/11/19/unified-authentication-in-vmware-cloud-foundation-sdk-9-0-seamless-authentication-across-vsphere-and-vsan-apis/
Published: November 19, 2025 09:54
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 introduces a Unified VCF Software Development Kit (SDK) for Python and Java. The key highlight of this release was the unification of all the major components into a single deliverable package to deliver simple, extensible,…
The Great Cloud Charade: Why “Data Residency” Isn’t “Data Sovereignty”
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/11/18/the-great-cloud-charade-why-data-residency-isnt-data-sovereignty/
Published: November 18, 2025 17:17
In the high-stakes world of digital infrastructure and modern sovereign cloud strategy, “sovereignty” has become the ultimate prize. Nations are drafting laws to control their digital territories. Enterprises are scrambling to comply, seeking cloud…
NVMe Memory Tiering Design and Sizing on VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Part 2: Design for Security, Redundancy, and Scalability
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/11/18/nvme-memory-tiering-design-and-sizing-on-vmware-cloud-foundation-9-part-2/
Published: November 18, 2025 12:00
In Part 1 of this series, we explored some of the pre-requisites for NVMe Memory Tiering such as workload assessment, memory activeness percentage, VM profile limitations, software pre-requisites, and compatibility of NVMe devices. In addition, we…