Faster Security Patching with Fewer Disruptions in VCF 9.1 The Three-Layer Model Explained
The window between vulnerability disclosure and active exploitation has collapsed from weeks to hours.
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Cyber Recovery and Backup Operations in VCF 9.1 A Day 0/1/2 Field Guide
When the regulator asks “what happens when ransomware hits,” the answer in VCF 9.1 is a native platform capability. Here’s how to design the IRE, deploy the components, and operate the recovery rhythm
VCF Automation and Self-Service Consumption in VCF 9.1 A Day 0/1/2 Field Guide
Self-service is what application teams expect from a private cloud now. VCF Automation in 9.1 makes that real if you architect the tenancy model, quotas, and Infrastructure Policies correctly. Here’s
VCF 9.1.0.0300 Express Patches Now Generally Available
Critical management plane bug fixes shipping for SDDC Manager, SDDC Lifecycle, Fleet Lifecycle, VCF Operations, License Server, and Cloud Proxy. Here’s what architects need to know.
VCF 9.1 Identity Broker and SSO Federation A Day 0/1/2 Field Guide
Identity is the layer that touches every other architectural decision in VCF. Get it wrong at Day 0 and it constrains everything downstream. Here’s how to design, deploy, and operate identity for VCF
VCF Operations and Observability in VCF 9.1 A Day 0/1/2 Field Guide
VCF Operations is now the centre of gravity for the whole platform not just monitoring, but lifecycle, capacity, compliance, and diagnostics. Here’s how to design, deploy, and operate it.
VCF 9.1 Fleet Lifecycle Management A Day 0/1/2 Field Guide
The maintenance window has been the most expensive line item in any VCF operational plan. VCF 9.1 changes the math materially.
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The Open Ecosystem Story in VCF 9.1 EVPN, EDR, GPUs, and Cloud Native Reference Architectures
This is Part 30 of the series the final article in the block driven by the Broadcom “Key VCF 9.1 Features” slide covering the Open Ecosystem story across the bottom of that slide. Four callouts: Unified EVPN with Arista,
vSphere Elastic Provisioning in VCF 9.1 Zero Touch Provisioning and Fleet Onboarding at Scale
Hosts boot, register, and onboard themselves. The new-host deployment work that used to be a multi-day manual project becomes a policy-driven workflow. The operational impact for MSPs and platform tea
Native Object Storage on vSAN in VCF 9.1 The On-Platform S3 Story (Tech Preview)
An S3-compatible object storage tier as a native vSAN capability. Backup targets, AI training data repositories, cloud-native application data the three use cases that need object storage on-premises,
MCP-Based Agentic AI Workflows in VCF 9.1 Building the Secure Substrate for Enterprise Agents
The architectural pattern that makes agentic AI deployable at enterprise scale Model Context Protocol as the integration standard, VCF 9.1 as the secure substrate.