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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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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
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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
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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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The 29 July advisory reaches vSphere 8: ESXi 8.0 U3k resolves CVE-2026-47876 live-patchable and vCenter 8.0 U3k closes two more.
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Five CVEs resolved across ESX and vCenter under VMSA-2026-0006, released 29 July. The detail that matters operationally: the ESX patch applies without reboot or evacuation
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The same 29 July advisory that patched three components on 9.0.2 asks exactly one thing of VCF and VVF 9.1 estates: vCenter 9.1.0.0300, resolving CVE-2026-59310.
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In late 2023, UniSuper’s infrastructure lead told the story of an 80/20 cloud transformation driven by regulatory pressure.
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The 40% TCO claim is only as good as the word ‘suitable.’ What-If Analysis models NVMe Memory Tiering against your actual telemetry before you commit and that changes how the business case gets made.
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A single PATCH call to resize vCenter, and SHA256 checksums on vLCM image definitions. Small features that move vCenter administration toward declarative, verifiable, API-driven operations.
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The redesigned Build / Manage / Operate / Protect console, real-time metrics at 2-second granularity,
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Designing AI infrastructure on VCF 9.1 - The workload class that ties the whole release together.