An architect’s read on the protection architecture of VCF 9.1: vSAN Data Protection for local snapshots (included with VCF), VCF Protection and Recovery (the renamed VMware Live Recovery)
Storage-specific guidance for HPE customers
Storage-specific guidance for Dell customers
Storage-specific guidance for Pure Storage FlashArray customers moving to VCF 9.1.
Storage-specific guidance for NetApp customers moving to VCF 9.1.
The redesigned Build / Manage / Operate / Protect console, real-time metrics at 2-second granularity,
The architect’s read on the journey from a standalone vSphere + Aria Operations estate to VCF 9.1. Convergence vs Brownfield Import vs Side-by-side.
Designing AI infrastructure on VCF 9.1 - The workload class that ties the whole release together.
vSAN ESA as the design baseline. Global Deduplication generally available with up to 8× capacity reduction. Storage in VCF 9.1 stops being a feature list and becomes a coherent architecture
Centralized vs Distributed Transit Gateways, the new VPC consumption model from vCenter, and what 9.1 just added — multi-TGW, Connectivity Policies, IPSec VPN, the Virtual Network Appliance, and span
Lifecycle stopped being a tool you bolt on. In VCF 9.x, it’s the backbone — and 9.1 finishes the architectural shift with the Fleet Update Service, 4× faster parallel cluster upgrades, live patching a
Before vCenter sizing, before NSX overlay, before cluster ratios — the design decision that frames every other decision in a VCF 9.1 deployment.