architecture
VCF Operations certificate management now reaches standalone vCenter 8.0 Update 3 and above, and VCF 5.2, without converting those estates to VCF. What 9.1.1 added, the CA options, and the licensing line that decides whether you can use it.
architecture
A community Management Pack for VCF Operations that is better engineered than most vendor material, and the four things worth checking before it goes near a regulated estate.
architecture
Data residency, operational, jurisdictional and technical sovereignty are separate questions. Most estates satisfy two and assume they have satisfied all four.
architecture
Run AI, containers and virtual machines on one platform, on hardware you already own. What that adds up to, and what to plan around.
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.
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.
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
An autonomous agent doesn't fit the user model or the service account model. Broadcom's answer gives agents identities, missions and runtime policy, and routes every action through a gateway that checks intent before execution.
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
newsletter
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.
newsletter
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