architecture
Most VCF 9.1 design failures I've seen weren't caused by missing documentation. They were caused by a decision nobody actually made. Eighteen of them, by domain, for your next HLD review. Broadcom's documentation for VCF 9.1 is good. The design guide, the
architecture
Twelve Broadcom documents sit behind the eighteen gaps in the checklist. Here's what each one covers, which gap it backs, and the reason you'd open it yourself. The checklist cites twelve Broadcom sources. Most people won't click any of them, which is a shame,
newsletter
A round-up of what Broadcom published in the last two weeks that’s worth your attention: the reservation-vs-pinning distinction every memory-tiering estate needs to get right, Broadcom’s clearest public statement yet on hardware scarcity driving private cloud adoption, and the opening wave of VMware Explore
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architecture
Every infrastructure budget conversation this year has the same shape: hardware costs up, refresh budgets flat, and the supply environment for GPUs, memory, and NVMe tightening the “2026 hardware crunch” that has its own session track at VMware Explore this month. When the hardware line item grows, it pressures everything
operations
Two 9.8s on vCenter an authentication bypass and a remote code execution path plus a 9.3 guest-to-host escape out of Pwn2Own. No workarounds on any of them. The advisory’s 3 August revision also added 8.0 U2f patches. Here’s the architect’s read of
architecture
Las Vegas, 31 August – 3 September. Strip away the keynote schedule and there’s a specific set of sessions that matter for regulated-industry platform teams. The technical selection, with the reasoning whether you attend or catch the recordings. VMware Explore 2026 runs 31 August to 3 September at the
operations
Not every VCF journey starts with an empty rack. VCF 9.1’s installer wizard and import workflows convert existing vCenter estates into management or workload domains the mechanics, the constraint surface, and the assessment that decides import versus migrate. The majority of VCF adoption conversations start from infrastructure that
architecture
DBaaS on your own infrastructure: policy-scoped self-service provisioning, lifecycle automation across PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL Server, and integration with VCF Automation. The technical architecture, the governance model, and where it fits in a regulated estate. Databases are usually the last workload class to join any platform’s operating
kubernetes
Kubernetes admission policy is where workload security stops being advisory. Broadcom’s new policy bundle for vSphere Kubernetes Service packages the baseline controls the engineering question is how you operate policy at fleet scale without breaking application teams. The technical read. Broadcom shipped a policy bundle for vSphere Kubernetes Service
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On owning your platform, and what comes next. This publication now lives at mohammadsiddiqui.com my own domain, running on Ghost. It is a move I had been considering for a while, and I am glad I made it. Here is why it matters, and what changes from here. The