family
How we came to Australia
Sultan, Naseem and five-week-old Sajid landed in Sydney on Boxing Day 1971. How it happened, told from the original letters and documents
architecture
The data plane barely changes across all four stages. The management plane triples. That is the real cost curve of adoption, and it belongs in front of an operations lead early.
lifecycle
Rushing a full adoption to hit a compliance date produces a worse VCF outcome than staging it. Five stages, three stopping points, and the distinction that decides your scope.
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News
The shape of a conference programme is a statement about where a vendor thinks the conversation is. Five sessions on upgrade and migration. Seven on design. Out of 188.
architecture
Most material on this question is written by people who already know what they want you to choose. This is the method instead — requirements first, weighted before you see a demo.
lifecycle
10.6.2 shares its end-of-life date with VCF 9.1. The migration timeline is no longer entirely yours to set
architecture
One Argo CD instance per hosting namespace, scoped to one region. It's Tech Preview, but the namespace design constraint applies now.
Enterprise cloud architecture and operations. Design decisions, upgrade paths and lessons from the field. Plus occasional writing on other things worth thinking through.
Nine themes, the ten most-watched, and three picks worth your time. AgentMinder took the top slot, and the CPU scheduler session is badly undervalued.
Eleven posts from Explore week in one place. Plus the replays are live, Vegas 2027 moves to spring, and On Tour reaches Sydney on 3–4 March 2027.
RSA-2048 gets deprecated in 2030 and disallowed in 2035. That's closer than it sounds when the migration touches Secure Boot, TPMs, code signing and every certificate authority you run. Here's the honest position, including the parts that don't need fixing.
Five of the eleven are databases. That isn't a coincidence, and neither is the timing. What shipped, what changed underneath it, and the licensing detail that decides whether you can use any of it.
The release notes say supportability improvements and an updated BoM. Six capabilities got added to the Distributed VXLAN Connectivity Model, and there's a patch ordering dependency that will break your window if you miss it.
Adding a host to a VCF cluster still means a manual, a firmware lookup and a twelve-step checklist. DORA Articles 8 and 11 now have opinions about that, which turns an operational annoyance into a regulatory one.
Three paths, forty hours at the deep end, and a curriculum list specific enough to tell you what Broadcom thinks a hardened VCF estate looks like. Useful even if you never sit the exam.
A four-stage security framework with a scored assessment underneath it. The interesting part isn't the programme, it's the five pillars it scores you against, and the fact that one of them is people.
The open networking strategy stops being an announcement and becomes an interoperability story. For anyone running NSX beside an existing Cisco fabric, this is the direction that decides your next design.
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.