architecture
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.
lifecycle
10.6.2 shares its end-of-life date with VCF 9.1. The migration timeline is no longer entirely yours to set
architecture
One Argo CD instance per hosting namespace, scoped to one region. It's Tech Preview, but the namespace design constraint applies now.
security
RSA-2048 gets deprecated in 2030 and disallowed in 2035. That's closer than it sounds when the migration touches Secure Boot, TPMs, code signing and every certificate authority you run. Here's the honest position, including the parts that don't need fixing.
operations
Adding a host to a VCF cluster still means a manual, a firmware lookup and a twelve-step checklist. DORA Articles 8 and 11 now have opinions about that, which turns an operational annoyance into a regulatory one.
security
Three paths, forty hours at the deep end, and a curriculum list specific enough to tell you what Broadcom thinks a hardened VCF estate looks like. Useful even if you never sit the exam.
security
A four-stage security framework with a scored assessment underneath it. The interesting part isn't the programme, it's the five pillars it scores you against, and the fact that one of them is people.
architecture
The open networking strategy stops being an announcement and becomes an interoperability story. For anyone running NSX beside an existing Cisco fabric, this is the direction that decides your next design.
architecture
Two B200 nodes, one liquid-cooled and one air-cooled, 3.2 Tb/s of GPU fabric per node, and a four-host EPYC management domain. This is what the AI Factory announcement looks like when somebody actually builds it.
security
Six thousand AI-generated patches were tested. A quarter of them fixed the vulnerability without breaking the application. The statistic is the easy part.
events
The hard part of enterprise AI was never the model. It's letting an agent use enterprise data without giving it access to enterprise data. Tanzu's answer is governed data products published to a marketplace. GA is Fall 2026.
news
Three announcements covering the platform, the automation underneath it, and the models that run on it. Here's the technical read and the questions I'd want answered before any of it lands in a design.