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Five of the eleven are databases. That isn't a coincidence, and neither is the timing. What shipped, what changed underneath it, and the licensing detail that decides whether you can use any of it.
lifecycle
The release notes call it maintenance. It also brings an AI assistant you can point at your own model, shared models across teams, six networking changes, and a patch order that will catch you out.
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
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.
architecture
Half of enterprise AI workloads already run on-premises or in private cloud. Nearly a third of organisations have repatriated a quarter or more of their workloads in the past year. If you're trying to fund a self-service platform, these are the numbers to put in front
operations
Auto-renewal in VCF 9.1 fires 60 days before expiry, which sounds like plenty of margin until you find out you can't switch it on for a certificate that's already inside that window. Here's how the renewal model actually works and what to
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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
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
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
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