architecture
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WSFC and clustered database estates have carried a storage growth constraint through every platform generation. VCF 9.1 removes it shared VMDKs expand online.
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Automated load balancing within guardrails on one front; MCP session persistence, JWT authentication, and tool RBAC on the other. The load balancing layer catches up with where the platform is going.
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What changes when the full application stack compute, network, storage, identity, security, and observability becomes a single declarative artefact.
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Designing AI infrastructure on VCF 9.1 - The workload class that ties the whole release together.
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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
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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
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Before vCenter sizing, before NSX overlay, before cluster ratios — the design decision that frames every other decision in a VCF 9.1 deployment.
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Twenty technology and topology updates in VCF 9.1, read through the HLD/LLD lens what actually changes in your sizing, your fault domains, your BoMs, and your patch cycles.