Tenancy Design
Tenancy is the one decision that gets more expensive every month you leave it. Which kind of organisation, where quota actually lives, and the constraints that arrived with 9.1.1.
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The First Ninety Days on 9.1
You upgraded and nothing changed. Most estates land on the platform and keep operating exactly as before. Here's the sequence I'd work through instead.
Bring Your Own Licence Is No Longer Optional
VMware on Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle has moved to BYOL, with deadlines. The nearest one is 31 October. And it quietly changes how you should compare clouds.
Amazon EVS, Explained for VCF Architects
VCF on EC2 bare metal inside your own VPC. Not the managed service you may be thinking of, and the networking constraints will shape your design whether you like them or not.
The Enterprise Case for VCF
Run AI, containers and virtual machines on one platform, on hardware you already own. What that adds up to, and what to plan around.
Your GPUs Are Two Thirds Idle
A single tenant on four GPUs used 37% of the streaming multiprocessors. Four tenants used 71%, with four times the throughput. Same box, no extra hardware.
The Engineer's Companion: Topology, Network, Storage and Integrations at Each Stage
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.
The Staged Path From vSphere 8 to VCF 9.1
Rushing a full adoption to hit a compliance date produces a worse VCF outcome than staging it. Five stages, three stopping points, a fourth option worth naming, and why going to 9.0 first may cost you a year.
What 188 Sessions Tell You About Explore 2026
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.
The Platform Decision: How to Run the Evaluation Without a Recommended Answer
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.
Cloud Director 10.6.2: A Migration Release, and a Lifecycle Statement
10.6.2 shares its end-of-life date with VCF 9.1. The migration timeline is no longer entirely yours to set
Centralising GitOps: Argo CD Lands Natively in VCF Automation 9.1.1
One Argo CD instance per hosting namespace, scoped to one region. It's Tech Preview, but the namespace design constraint applies now.