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# What 188 Sessions Tell You About Explore 2026
- URL: https://www.mohammadsiddiqui.com/what-188-sessions-tell-you-about-explore-2026/
- Published: 2026-09-10T00:38:07.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-19T04:54:30.000Z
- Description: The shape of a conference programme is a statement about where a vendor thinks the conversation is. Five sessions on upgrade and migration. Seven on design. Out of 188.
- Author: Mohammad Siddiqui
- Tags: News, architecture

I have spent the last few days working through the Explore 2026 catalogue properly, all 188 recorded sessions, sorting them into themes rather than the four official tracks.

Doing that turns out to be more revealing than watching any individual session. The shape of a conference programme is a statement about where a vendor thinks the conversation is, and about where they would like it to be. Sometimes those are the same thing. Sometimes the gaps are the interesting part.

What follows is the analysis first, then the full catalogue at the bottom so you can work through it yourself.

## The shape of it

Broadcom split the catalogue into four tracks. Cloud Infrastructure carries 127 of the 188 sessions, which makes it less a filter than a synonym for “most of the conference.” So I regrouped by subject:

Core platform and what’s new

63

AI, GPU and agentic

30

Security and recovery

25

Kubernetes and applications

21

Operations and automation

14

Storage and memory

12

Networking

11

Design and architecture

7

Upgrade and migration

5

AI and security together account for 55 sessions, close to a third of the programme. That is a fair reflection of where the market conversation actually is, and nobody should be surprised by it.

The bottom two rows are the ones I keep coming back to.

## Five sessions on upgrade and migration

Out of 188.

Consider who is in the room. A large share of the installed base is on 5.2.x or 8.x, facing a major version transition with a new installer, a changed lifecycle model, a different identity architecture and an unfamiliar operations stack. For most of those organisations, the upgrade is the single largest piece of infrastructure work in their next two years.

Five sessions.

To be fair to Broadcom, the ones that exist are good. The path-selection session on choosing between upgrade, converge and import is the most useful hour in the entire catalogue if you have a 5.2.x estate. But five is thin against the size of the problem, and it means practical migration knowledge lives in documentation, KB articles and partner heads rather than on a stage where a thousand people hear it at once.

The counter-argument is that upgrade content does not fill a keynote hall, and conferences are marketing events as well as technical ones. That is true. It is also why the imbalance is worth noticing rather than resenting.

## Seven on design and architecture

The Design and Architect track exists, and it is small. Sessions in it drew single-digit view counts, which says more about scheduling and discovery than about content quality.

This one bothers me more than the migration gap, because design is the discipline that determines whether any of the rest of it works. You can attend twenty sessions on individual features and still produce a bad design, and most of the expensive failures I have seen were design failures rather than product failures.

There is a reasonable argument that architecture is better taught in workshops than breakouts, and the new small-group interactive tracks introduced this year support that. But a catalogue where design is 4% of the programme sends a signal about what the industry currently values, and I am not sure it is the right one.

## What people actually watched

**AgentMinder took the top slot with 150 views**, roughly 27% clear of second place.  
  
That is the story of the week in one data point. Not AI infrastructure. Not the model runtime. **Agentic security.** The thing people are worried about is not whether they can run agents, it is what happens when they do. 

Second was the vSphere deep dive at 88, the reliable perennial. Third, and more interesting, was the hardware crisis session at 47 — the one about extracting more from constrained infrastructure. The memory tiering economics session performed well above most feature content too.

Read those together and you get a picture of the audience that does not quite match the picture of the programme. The catalogue leans toward what is new. The viewing leans toward what is expensive.

## The session that deserved better

Twenty-three views for the topology-aware CPU scheduler deep dive.

That session covers the engineering behind up to 30% higher SQL Server throughput, roughly 26% on Oracle, peak PostgreSQL latency halving in VMmark, and the SAP HANA certification at two VMs per socket. If you do capacity planning or sizing work, it is the most immediately monetisable hour in the catalogue, because it changes consolidation ratios on hardware you already own.

Twenty-three views. Meanwhile the announcement blog covering the same material was read by orders of magnitude more people.

There is a lesson in that for anyone producing technical content, myself included. Engineering depth does not travel on its own. It needs the announcement to carry it, and the announcement is what most people will ever see.

## What the programme says about direction

**The platform story has consolidated.** Two years ago you would have seen separate tracks for the component products. Now it is one platform with capabilities, and the session titles reflect that. Whether you find that clarifying or reductive probably depends on which component you specialise in.

**AI has stopped being a separate conversation.** The AI sessions are not off in a corner discussing possibilities. They are about GPU scheduling, tenant isolation, memory economics and governance — infrastructure problems with AI attached, which is the right framing and a noticeable change from last year.

**Cost is back as a first-class topic.** The hardware crisis and memory tiering sessions did well because people are being asked to do more with hardware they cannot easily buy. That is a genuine shift and it will shape the next two years more than any product announcement.

## If you only watch three

**Choosing the Right Path to VMware Cloud Foundation 9** — if you have a 5.2.x estate ahead of you, this is the hour that saves the most downstream rework.

**Unlocking Performance with the Next-Gen Topology-Aware CPU Scheduler** — undervalued, and it changes sizing assumptions on hardware you already own.

**Trust No One: Confidential Computing Inside VMware ESX** — the mechanics behind the AMD and Intel announcements, and the design implications.

## The full catalogue

All 188 sessions, grouped into the nine themes above, with session codes, speakers and view counts. *Click any theme to expand.*

Finding a session

Broadcom has reorganised the video library, so the old per-session URLs no longer resolve. Search by session code instead, for example CLOB1112LV, at the [Explore video search](https://www.vmware.com/explore/video/search?ref=mohammadsiddiqui.com). The codes below are the searchable key. 

Core platform and what’s new — 63 sessions, 788 views 
- **A Deep Dive: What's New for VMware vSphere in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1**  
CLOB1082LV · 88 views · Dave Morera, Bob Plankers
- **Conquer the 2026 Hardware Crisis: VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 Optimization Strategies**  
CLOB1266LV · 47 views · Sandeep Byreddy, Junchi Zhang
- **A Complete Guide to Protecting and Recovering Your VMware Cloud Foundation Deployments**  
CLOB1763LV · 38 views · Emad Younis, Amit Utkur
- **VMware Cloud Foundation Certification 2026: Tips, Tricks, and Guidance from the Global Community**  
CMTYQT1317LV · 28 views · Dave Bradley, Kristof Asaert
- **Unlocking Performance with Next-Gen Topology-Aware CPU Scheduler in VMware Cloud Foundation**  
CLOB1112LV · 23 views · Qasim Ali, Rupesh Shimkhada, Haoqiang Zheng
- **AI-Ready Private Cloud with Cisco and VMware**  
CLOB2686LV · 22 views · Sabina Anja, Lukas Krattiger
- **Tips and Tricks for Running VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 in Lab/PoC**  
CLOB1613LV · 21 views · William Lam, Alan Renouf, Alexander Rahimi
- **Running VMware Cloud Foundation 9 on Amazon Elastic VMware Service**  
CLOQT2319LVS · 21 views ·
- **Building a Sovereign Cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation**  
CLOB1443LV · 19 views · Ivan Oprencak, Alex Matthews
- **Dynamic ROI Management FinOps and Tokenomics in AI Era**  
CLOB2153LV · 19 views · Sreenivasan Rajagopal, JR Storment, Kameswaran Subramanian
- **Governance at Scale: Securing the App Estate**  
APPB1390LV · 19 views · Valentina Alaria, Erik Scales
- **Own Your Cloud Costs: FinOps Capabilities in VMware Cloud Foundation**  
CLOB1110LV · 18 views · Kelcey Lemon, Sujatha David
- **Built-in Resilience: How vMotion DRS HA and Namespaces Protect Your Apps**  
CLOB1275LV · 18 views · Rupesh Shimkhada, Priya Patel
- **27 Virtual: Over 50 VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Deployments - Key Insights and Lessons Learned**  
CLOQT1793LVS · 17 views · Chris Wilson
- **A Hardware Smorgasbord: Practical Tips and Tricks for Server Deployments**  
CLOT1185LV · 17 views · Bob Plankers, John Nicholson, Dave Morera
- **Azure and AI: How to Unleash the Power of Azure VMware Solution**  
CLOT1801LVS · 17 views · Dennis Boeynaems
- **From On-Premises to Intelligent Cloud with Azure VMware Solution**  
CLOB1798LVS · 15 views · Scott Gruenemeier, Justin Jakowski
- **Building and Running Enterprise-Ready AI Agents**  
INVB1683LV · 15 views · Corby Page
- **Introducing App Stack Formation: Capturing Live VMs as Catalog Items**  
CLOB1061LV · 14 views · Dave Overbeek, Vincent Riccio
- **VMware Cloud Foundation Edge 9.1: A Purpose-Built Platform for the Distributed Edge**  
CLOB1175LV · 13 views · Dhruv Tyagi
- **Platform Engineering 2.0: Building the AI-Native Foundation with VMware Cloud Foundation**  
CLOB1507LV · 13 views · Pankaj Gupta, Dilpreet Bindra
- **So You've Been Told to Close Down a Data Center...What's Next?**  
CMTYQT1292LV · 12 views · Dave Bradley
- **Enabling Developer Experiences on VMware Cloud Foundation 9**  
APPB1810LVS · 12 views · Josh Garner
- **Demystifying VM Service: A Modern Path to Traditional VM Excellence**  
CLOB1455LV · 11 views · Jeremy Wolf, Andrew Scorsone
- **Double the density, half the cost: Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS)**  
CLOQT2474LVS · 11 views · Ben Lipman, Richard Nicholl
- **Defending the Open Source Software Supply Chain in the Era of Frontier AI**  
APPB1860LV · 11 views · Kevin Strohmeyer, Valentina Alaria
- **Building a Private Cloud: A Provider Admin Guide for Multi-Tenant Success**  
CLOB1062LV · 10 views · Scott McDermott, Arkadiy Shapiro
- **Mastering the Hybrid Estate: Strategy for Public Clouds and VMware Cloud Foundation with ValueOps by Broadcom**  
INVB1596LV · 10 views · Emma Price, Francois Cattoen
- **Extend Your Private Cloud into an AI-Ready Data Powerhouse**  
APPB1355LV · 10 views · Ivan Novick, Junchi Zhang
- **Master the Air-Gap: Seamless Binary Management for Disconnected Sites**  
CLOB1137LV · 9 views · Kyle Gleed
- **Living on the Edge: What's New with VCF Edge**  
CLOB1260LV · 9 views · Rick Walsworth, David Linthicum
- **Platform Engineering Opportunity: Virtual Infrastructure Admins Are Well Positioned for Career Growth**  
CLOB1527LV · 9 views · Pankaj Gupta, Brad Tompkins, Matt Hemingway
- **Amazon Elastic VMware Service with VMware Cloud Foundation 9: Expanding Choice and Flexibility for VMware Software on AWS**  
CLOB2172LVS · 9 views ·
- **Certs, Knights, and Reality: The Truth Behind Advanced VMware Certifications**  
CMTYQT1098LV · 9 views · Alan Harrington
- **From Firefighting to Foresight: Mastering VMware Cloud Foundation Health and Diagnostics**  
CLOB1118LV · 8 views · Kelcey Lemon, Sujatha David
- **Ease into VMware Cloud Foundation: Quickest Wins by Adopting Version 9.1**  
CLOQT1865LVS · 8 views · Arnaud Gandibleux
- **An Infrastructure Modernization Story: From Stateless VMware ESX to Desired State at Scale**  
CODEQT1400LV · 8 views · Jeremiah Monk, Rupesh Shimkhada
- **AI-Powered VMware Cloud Foundation: How I Cut a 4-Hour Task Down to 4 Minutes**  
CODEQT1326LV · 8 views · Piotr Tarnawski
- **Build an Infrastructure-Over Lunch-That Developers Want to Use**  
APPB1356LV · 8 views · Chris McClanahan, Darin Zook
- **Quickly Tackle Vulnerabilities and Tech Debt with App Portfolio Assessments**  
APPB1465LV · 8 views · Ken Rider, Ryan Conley
- **What Makes Ubuntu Different from Other Linux Distributions**  
CLOB1867LVS · 7 views · Cedric Gegout
- **Build a Secure Resilient and Financially Sustainable VMware Cloud Foundation**  
CLOB1876LVS · 7 views · Chance Bingen, Ken Jeras
- **Top Questions Predicting VMware Cloud Foundation Adoption Success**  
CLOQT1797LVS · 7 views · Bernard Smith
- **Beyond the Cloud: Repatriating Workloads with Ubuntu on VMware Cloud Foundation**  
CLOQT2136LVS · 7 views · Craig Bender
- **Loop, Swoop, and Pull: PowerCLI Will Be as Easy as Tying Your Shoes**  
CODEQT1177LV · 7 views · Justin Sider
- **Unlocking the Value of VMware Cloud Foundation with Private Cloud Maturity and Optimization**  
CLOB1057LV · 6 views · Azeem Mohamed, Drew Nielsen
- **Under Pressure: The Zero Downtime Game - Optimize or Lose**  
CLOQT2288LVS · 6 views · Sean Almeida
- **VMware Cloud Foundation Delivery Blueprint: Real-World Insights for Success**  
CLOB1806LVS · 5 views · Michael Law, Mark Bochucinski
- **Anywhere VMware Cloud Foundation Runs Your Data Follows: Hybrid Mobility with Everpure**  
CLOB1816LVS · 5 views · Alex Carver, Matt Webb
- **Accelerating Workloads and Infrastructure with Intel QuickAssist Technology**  
CLOB1883LVS · 5 views · Kannan Mani, Priya Patel, Svyatoslav Pankratov
- **Scaling AI with Smart Token Economics and Hybrid Control**  
CLOQT1830LVS · 5 views · Nicholas Borsotto
- **How to Protect Your AI Application and Why It Matters**  
CMTYQT1336LV · 5 views · Waldemar Pera
- **The Power of AI Driving Clinical Decision Making in Healthcare**  
INVQT1790LVS · 5 views · Eric Quinones MD, Jon Mello, Dev Dash
- **Accelerating Workloads with Intel Built-in Accelerators**  
CMTYQT1745LV · 4 views · Kannan Mani, Svyatoslav Pankratov
- **Governance of Micro-Segmentation Policies**  
INVB1744LV · 4 views · Kausum Kumar, Ranga Rajagopalan
- **Accelerate Your VMware Growth with TD SYNNEX**  
INVQT1877LVS · 4 views · Mike Zealy
- **Your VMware Investment Fully Realized**  
CLOQT1896LVS · 3 views · Jeffrey Gregor
- **Inside the Coding Agent-Powered SDLC: Adapting Your Infrastructure**  
INVB1690LV · 3 views · Adib Saikali, Frank Denneman
- **From Startup to Broadcom: How ConnectALL Is Enhancing Multi-Cloud Environments**  
CMTYQT1565LV · 3 views · Emma Price
- **Unlocking Data and AI Innovation with Azure VMware Solution**  
CLOB1799LVS · 2 views · Sundeep Hiranandaney, Ron Goedhart
- **VMware Cloud Foundation: Cutting Through Complexity with AHEAD**  
CLOQT1863LVS · 2 views · Ken Nalbone
- **Who's Who: Top Virtualization Social Media Sites for Admins**  
CMTYQT1053LV · 2 views · David Frankfort
- **Real Talk: What the VMUG Community Is Seeing in the VMware Ecosystem**  
INVQT1785LVS · 2 views · Brad Tompkins
AI, GPU and agentic — 30 sessions, 597 views 
- **AgentMinder: The New Standard for Agentic Security**  
SECB1828LV · 150 views · Vadim Lander
- **Operationalizing Cyber Defense and App Resilience for the Agentic AI Era**  
SECB1789LV · 89 views · Umesh Mahajan, Prashant Gandhi, Ahsan Khan, Jeremy Wright
- **Introducing VMware AI Factory: The Software-Defined Foundation of VMware Private AI Cloud**  
CLOB1244LV · 51 views · Himanshu Singh, Ramkumar Venketaramani
- **Business Impact of Agentic AI: A Customer Fireside Chat**  
CLOP1277LV · 25 views · Adam Little, Mark Fournier, Prashanth Shenoy
- **The Top 10 Agentic AI Security Risks and Threats Every IT Admin Should Know**  
CMTYQT1710LV · 24 views · Abdul Aziz Mohammed, Catherine Fan
- **What Is MCP and Why Does It Matter to VMware Cloud Foundation Administrators?**  
APPB1629LV · 23 views · Adib Saikali, Morgan Fine
- **Design & Architect: VMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services**  
CLOB1084LV · 22 views · Luca Camarda, Agustin Malanco
- **Models in Minutes: A Deep Dive into VMware Private AI Model Runtime**  
INVB1227LV · 20 views · Shawn Kelly, Frank Denneman
- **Agentic AI at Scale: The Blueprint for Enterprise Transformation**  
INVQT2479LVS · 20 views ·
- **Shift to a Cloud Operating Model with VCF Operations & Fleet Control**  
CLOB1805LVS · 15 views · Jodi Shely, Earle Cromer
- **Private AI without Reinventing the Data Center**  
CLOB1811LVS · 14 views · Edward Kerr
- **Optimizing AI from Model Requirements to GPU Consumption on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1**  
INVT1225LV · 13 views · Frank Denneman, Shawn Kelly
- **Agentic Operations and Kubernetes Observability Loop**  
CLOB1169LV · 12 views · Bhanu Singh, Kameswaran Subramanian
- **VMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services: What's New and What's Next?**  
CLOB1661LV · 12 views · Chris Wolf, Craig McLellan
- **Agents and Model Context Protocol: Building Tool-Aware AI Systems with VMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services**  
CODEQT1767LV · 12 views · Mandy Shen
- **From Core to Edge: A Unified Approach for Sovereign Data and Agentic AI**  
INVB1832LV · 12 views · Siva Edaichamy, Alex Mershon
- **From Frontier Models to Private AI Agents: The Tanzu Harness on VMware Cloud Foundation**  
INVB1058LV · 10 views · Siva Edaichamy
- **Is Your Private Cloud Large Language Model Actually Good Enough for Coding Agents?**  
CODEQT1692LV · 10 views · Nick Kuhn
- **Cloud Operating Model Realized: Architecting VPCs in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1**  
CLOB1327LV · 9 views · Luca Camarda, Thomas Vigneron
- **Deploy and govern AI models and agents with VMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services**  
CLOB1229LV · 8 views · Nikhil M Kulkarni, Darin Schmitz
- **AI at the Edge: Running Inference and Agentic Workflows with VCF Edge**  
CLOB1272LV · 7 views · Ramkumar Venketaramani, Tony Huynh, Michael Curnutt
- **From Dashboards to Dialogue: Agentic Observability on VMware Cloud Foundation**  
INVB1209LV · 7 views · Scott Rosenberg
- **Accelerating AI: Mastering GPU on VMware Cloud Foundation**  
INVB1237LV · 7 views · Shawn Kelly, Darin Schmitz
- **Private AI Radiology Inference with VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service**  
CLOQT1892LVS · 6 views · Johnny Jagroo, Luciana de Padua
- **VMware Cloud Foundation 9 and Model Context Protocol: The Blueprint for Trusted AI Assistants and Copilots**  
CMTYQT1681LV · 6 views · John Arrasjid, Mark Fynes
- **Securing Agentic AI Workloads in VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service Using Calico**  
CODEQT1561LV · 5 views · Veronika Smolik
- **Maximize Agentic AI Workflows on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 with AMD EPYC and Instinct**  
CLOB1875LVS · 3 views · Rajesh Bhat
- **Adopting VMware Cloud Foundation 9 and Private AI in Higher Ed on a Budget**  
INVB1387LV · 2 views · Ala Dewberry, Ellen Spencer
- **From Gatekeeper to Enabler: The Agentic SDLC Live on VMware Cloud Foundation**  
APPT1586LV · 2 views · Keith Lee, Nick Kuhn, Dan Baskette
- **The Wondernerd Returns: Scripting GPU Management with PowerShell and Python**  
CODEQT1687LV · 1 views · Tony Foster
Security, compliance and recovery — 25 sessions, 539 views 
- **VCF State of the Union: Optimizing Costs and Closing Security Gaps in the AI Era**  
CLOB1276LV · 118 views · Krish Prasad, Sabina Anja, Dilpreet Bindra, Raghu Nambiar, Josh Prewitt
- **VMware Salt: Automating Workload Configuration and Compliance**  
CLOB1073LV · 60 views · Vincent Riccio, Hamid Mahmood, Steven Ireland
- **Trust No One: Confidential Computing and Security Inside VMware ESX**  
CLOB1154LV · 34 views · Nick Ford, Bob Plankers
- **What Is New in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 Security and Compliance**  
CLOB1187LV · 34 views · Bob Plankers
- **VMware Cloud Foundation Recovery Mastery: Three Scenarios Three Approaches**  
CLOB1182LV · 26 views · Jatin Jindal, Ken Gould
- **Enforcing Zero Trust for Apps Across Multi-Cluster VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service**  
SECB1079LV · 26 views · Chris McCain, Niran Evenchen
- **Lateral Security Simplified: The VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall 1-2-3-4 Security Journey**  
SECB1247LV · 25 views · Andrew Hrycaj, Catherine Fan
- **Demystifying vDefend Distributed Security within VMware Cloud Foundation**  
SECB1358LV · 24 views · Tim Burkard, Chris McCain
- **Hardening and Securing VMware Cloud Foundation**  
CLOT1184LV · 21 views · Bob Plankers
- **AI vs. AI: Recovering from Cyber Threats Using VMware Cloud Foundation**  
CLOB1725LV · 20 views · Jatin Jindal, Harsha Muktamath, Jerod Wright
- **Automating Cyber Recovery with VMware Cloud Foundation: Tales from the Trenches**  
CLOB1730LV · 19 views · Juan Cruz, Harsha Muktamath
- **Self-Service Security for VMware Cloud Foundation Automation with VMware vDefend Firewall**  
SECB1119LV · 15 views · Geoff Wilmington
- **Easing Regulatory Compliance with Operational Guidance**  
CLOB1188LV · 14 views · Frances Wong, Andrew Firth
- **Virtual Machine Recovery Strategies for VMware Cloud Foundation**  
CLOB1214LV · 11 views · Michael McLaughlin, Dave Overbeek
- **Disaster Recovery Deep Dive: Going Beyond Site Recovery**  
CLOB1215LV · 11 views · Michael McLaughlin, Emad Younis
- **All-in-one Approach to Cyber Recovery: Balancing Architecture Risk and Cost**  
CLOB1726LV · 10 views · Michael McLaughlin, Chris Gully
- **Defending Against AI-Powered Threats**  
CLOB1827LV · 10 views · Bob Plankers, Yoomi Hong
- **Prescriptive Ransomware Defense for VMware Cloud Foundation Workloads with VMware vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention**  
SECB1466LV · 10 views · Bops Puliyanda, Scott Sorell
- **Security Reference Design for VMware Cloud Foundation**  
SECB1630LV · 10 views · Pooja Patel
- **A Step-by-Step Tutorial for Stopping Brickstorm-Like Attacks Using VMware vDefend**  
SECT1642LV · 10 views · Andrew Hrycaj, Geoff Shukin
- **Accelerate Your Network Security with VMware NSX Using GenAI**  
CMTYQT1307LV · 8 views · Marc van de Logt
- **Secure by Design: Eliminating Ransomware Blind Spots with VMware vDefend**  
SECB1311LV · 8 views · Stijn Vanveerdeghem
- **Zero Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective, Full Speed: ActiveCluster with NVMe-oF on VMware Cloud Foundation**  
CLOQT1817LVS · 7 views · Alex Carver
- **Synchronization of VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall and Gateway Firewall Policies**  
CODEQT1680LV · 5 views · Nigel Wright
- **Secure the Front Door: Hardened VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service with VMware Avi and VMware vDefend**  
SECB1462LV · 3 views · Chris Grice, Madhu Krishnarao
Kubernetes and applications — 21 sessions, 281 views 
- **90 Minutes from Kubernetes Basics to GitOps: The VMware vSphere Way**  
APPT1231LV · 41 views · John Andrechak, Dhruv Tyagi
- **Build Where It Makes Sense: Two OpenShift Practitioners Make a Case for VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service**  
CMTYQT1619LV · 39 views · Mae Large, Adam Tucker
- **VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service Networking Demystified: From vmnic to Pod**  
CMTYQT1248LV · 23 views · Federico Cinalli
- **How VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service Changes the Game: Running Containers and VMs on a Single Platform**  
CLOB1241LV · 18 views · Himanshu Singh, Jay Thontakudi
- **Design & Architect: Ecosystem Integrations with VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service for Modern Applications**  
APPB1147LV · 16 views · Hugo Phan, Skand Purohit
- **10 Minutes from Code to Cluster: Automating Application Delivery on VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service**  
APPB1222LV · 16 views · John Andrechak, Dharmesh Bhatt
- **Design & Architect: VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service Consumption with VMware Cloud Foundation**  
APPB1107LV · 15 views · Jeff Wong, Colin Smith
- **0 Code Agents: From AGENTS.md to Running App on VMware Tanzu Platform**  
APPB1669LV · 15 views · Nick Kuhn
- **How Organizations Are Deploying and Winning with VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service in the Real World**  
APPB1818LV · 13 views · Himanshu Singh, Marc van de Logt, Rama Dhuwaraha
- **VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service at the Edge: Production Design and Architecture Best Practices**  
CLOB1146LV · 12 views · Shree Das, Xiao Gao
- **Broadcom Runs on VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service Containers at Scale and How to Operate Them Internally**  
CLOB1286LV · 12 views · Mitesh Pancholy
- **Kubernetes Observability for Platform Operators: VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service and Application Services**  
CLOB1167LV · 11 views · Shaw Zhang
- **Running VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service: Enterprise Kubernetes Without Full VMware Cloud Foundation**  
CLOB1217LV · 11 views · Jad El-Zein, Jeremy Wolf
- **Virtualized Versus Bare Metal Infrastructure with VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service**  
CMTYQT1588LV · 8 views · Bruce Gain, Ka-Kit Wong
- **Baked-in Protection for Your Kubernetes Applications in VMware Cloud Foundation**  
CLOB1727LV · 6 views · Jatin Jindal, Jeremy Wolf
- **The Database Modernization Ladder: VMs to Containers on VMware Cloud Foundation**  
CLOB1562LV · 5 views · Kim Delgado, Marian Tudosoiu
- **The Power of Choice: Enterprise App Modernization with VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service and Ecosystem ISVs**  
CLOP1243LV · 5 views · Anika Suri, Jeff Chapman, Martin Reynolds, Harsh Shah, Uzi Ailon
- **Stop Building Start Vending: Deep Dive into VMware Tanzu and VMware Cloud Foundation 9**  
APPB1357LV · 5 views · Oren Penso, Chris McClanahan
- **Choosing Your Deployment Path: VM Container and Kubernetes Services on VMware Cloud Foundation**  
CLOB1236LV · 4 views · Jad El-Zein, Dharmesh Bhatt
- **Understanding Kubernetes Operations Friction in a VM-Based World**  
CLOB1501LV · 4 views · Travis Wood, Corey Dinkens
- **Day 2 for Kubernetes: Scaling from One-to-Many, Policy, Monitoring, and Backups**  
APPB1267LV · 2 views · Jeremy Wolf, Andrew Scorsone
Operations and automation — 14 sessions, 276 views 
- **What's New in VMware Cloud Foundation Operations**  
CLOT1139LV · 53 views · Abhijit Timble, Suresh Palguna Krishnan
- **Lifecycle Management in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 for VMware vSphere Admins**  
CLOB1568LV · 36 views · Suzy Visvanathan
- **End-to-End VMware Cloud Foundation Automation Provider, Organization, and Consumption Setup and Configuration**  
CLOT1063LV · 32 views · Shanky Chandra-Gowri, Maher AlAsfar
- **Provisioning Modern Workloads with VMware Cloud Foundation Automation Services Offerings**  
CLOB1064LV · 26 views · Vincent Riccio, Andrew Scorsone
- **VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 SDK: Achieving Full-Stack Private Cloud and Fleet Automation**  
CLOB1026LV · 25 views · Angel Petrov, Dhruv Tyagi
- **Autonomous Rightsizing and Zero-Touch Delivery with VMware Cloud Foundation and Automic Automation**  
CLOB1703LV · 18 views · Fernando Sousa, Andres Flores
- **Seeing Through the Fog: Mastering Operations in Private Clouds**  
CLOB1488LV · 15 views · Jason Hutson, Neeraj Gandhi
- **Evolving from VMware Cloud Director to VMware Cloud Foundation Automation 9.1**  
CLOB1158LV · 14 views · Jaikishan Tayal, Arkadiy Shapiro, Ahsan Khan
- **Automating Desired State with vSphere Configuration Profiles**  
CLOB1614LV · 13 views · Sajan Liyon
- **Advanced Management Pack Strategies for VMware Cloud Foundation Operations**  
CODEQT1201LV · 12 views · Dale Hassinger
- **VMware Cloud Foundation Automation: New Capabilities for Transforming Infrastructure Delivery**  
CLOB1060LV · 11 views · Scott McDermott, Shanky Chandra-Gowri
- **Full-Stack Troubleshooting with VMware Cloud Foundation Operations**  
CLOB1224LV · 10 views · Iwan Rahabok, Suresh Palguna Krishnan
- **Application Repo to Self-Service: Automating Applications with Infrastructure as Code**  
CLOB1066LV · 7 views · Timmy Carr, Maher AlAsfar
- **The Patching Dilemma: Do You Need Help with the Deluge of Vulnerabilities?**  
SECB1279LV · 4 views · Geoff Shukin, Stijn Vanveerdeghem
Storage and memory — 12 sessions, 200 views 
- **What's New in VMware vSAN for VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1**  
CLOB1193LV · 35 views · Pete Koehler, Junchi Zhang
- **A Look into the New Features for Memory Tiering in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1**  
INVB1153LV · 29 views · Sajan Liyon, Dave Morera
- **Adopt VMware vSAN the Right Way: Technical Guidance for VMware Cloud Foundation**  
CLOT1190LV · 18 views · John Nicholson, Pete Koehler
- **NVMe Memory Tiering: The VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Feature Your Budget Needs Right Now**  
CMTYQT1226LV · 18 views · Aymane Mansouri, Johnny Jagroo
- **Four Breakthroughs Powering VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Unified AI Storage and Data Platform**  
INVB1090LV · 18 views · Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Duncan Epping
- **Preserve Your Fiber Channel(FC) Hardware Investment While Modernizing Storage with vSAN over Fiber Channel**  
CLOB1394LV · 16 views · Anoop Gunturi, Jayamohan Kallickal
- **Memory Economics in the AI Era: NVMe Memory Tiering on Lenovo Platforms**  
CLOB1829LVS · 14 views · Catherine Maina, Arvind Jagannath
- **Four Production-Ready Storage Capabilities Every VMware Cloud Foundation Admin Needs to Know**  
CLOB1085LV · 12 views · Duncan Epping, Pete Koehler
- **The Next Deduplication: How Memory Tiering Is Reshaping Infrastructure**  
CLOQT1886LVS · 12 views · Brian Donofrio
- **Beat the Hardware Crunch: Lowering TCO with the vSAN Platform**  
CLOB1197LV · 10 views · Anoop Gunturi, Junchi Zhang
- **What's Next for OCVS: New Compute, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9, and More Storage Choice**  
CLOQT2431LVS · 10 views ·
- **The Path to a Quantum Secure VMware Cloud Foundation Storage Infrastructure**  
INVB1096LV · 8 views · Marcus Thordal
Networking — 11 sessions, 231 views 
- **Avoiding the RAM-pocalypse: Unlock Total Cost of Ownership Savings with VMware Memory Tiering**  
CLOB1046LV · 65 views · Dave Morera, Arvind Jagannath
- **VMware Cloud Foundation + Arista: Deep Dive into the Unified EVPN-VXLAN Network Fabric**  
CLOB1152LV · 36 views · Andre Vasquez, Shyam Kota
- **Master the Virtual Private Cloud: Self-Service Networking in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1**  
CLOT1140LV · 28 views · Dimitri Desmidt, Thomas Vigneron, Francois Tallet
- **What's New in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 Networking**  
CLOB1141LV · 25 views · Dimitri Desmidt, Francois Tallet
- **AI for Virtual Networking and Network Operations**  
INVB1103LV · 22 views · Jerome Catrouillet, Ken Guo
- **Customer Journey: Building a Modern Private Cloud with VMware Avi Load Balancer on VMware Cloud Foundation 9**  
SECB1623LV · 20 views · Arif Altalib, Josh Garner
- **Secure the Unknown: Automating API Protection and WAF with VMware Avi Load Balancer**  
SECB1572LV · 12 views · Abdul Aziz Mohammed, Bradley Lachance
- **Design & Architect: VMware Cloud Foundation Networking - Monitoring and Performance Optimization**  
CLOB1124LV · 11 views · Samuel Kommu, Andre Vasquez
- **VMware Cloud Foundation Operations for Networks: Helping Prove VCF Network Innocence**  
CLOB1200LV · 5 views · Venky Deshpande, Jerome Catrouillet
- **Network Observability for VMware Cloud Foundation: A Guide to Solving Cross-Cloud Performance**  
CLOB1533LV · 4 views · Alec Pinkham
- **Automation-First Application Delivery with VMware Avi Load Balancer**  
SECT1765LV · 3 views · Nick Robbins, Matt Adam
Design and architecture — 7 sessions, 103 views 
- **Design & Architect: Private Cloud Deployment and Best Practices for VMware Cloud Foundation 9**  
CLOT1100LV · 37 views · William Lam, Sushil Suvarna, Michael Krebs
- **Accelerating Performance on VMware Cloud Foundation with CPU Tuning and Sizing Best Practices**  
CLOB1882LVS · 18 views · SAJJID REZA, Qasim Ali
- **Running VMware Cloud Foundation 9 at Home: Design Patterns, Pitfalls, and Practical Tips**  
CODEQT1435LV · 18 views · Pawel Piotrowski
- **Deploy with Confidence: Tactical and Government Edge Architectures**  
CLOB1831LV · 15 views · Shree Das, Jonathan Hardin
- **Design & Architecture: Managing and Operating a Private Cloud**  
CLOB1145LV · 7 views · Michael Kolos, Ivaylo Ivanov
- **Designing Around Licensing: Operational Patterns for Infrastructure**  
CMTYQT1670LV · 5 views · Jo Snow
- **Bringing Order to Multi-Cloud and Multi-Architecture Chaos**  
CLOQT1796LVS · 3 views · Bailey Garner
Upgrade and migration — 5 sessions, 162 views 
- **Choosing the Right Path to VMware Cloud Foundation 9: Upgrade Converge Import or Rebuild**  
CLOB1257LV · 68 views · Abhishek Agarwal, Karl Steblein
- **Accelerate VCF 9 Upgrade with Hyperscaler Solutions for Hybrid Deployments**  
CLOB1041LV · 40 views · Paul Dul, Abhay Kumar, Sunny Dua, Brett Tanzer
- **VMware vSphere Upgrade and Lifecycle: What You Need to Know**  
CLOB1615LV · 25 views · Sandeep Byreddy, Rupesh Shimkhada
- **Unlock the Future: Transitioning to VMware Cloud Foundation**  
CLOT1136LV · 24 views · Kyle Gleed, Jared Burns
- **Best Practices for Migration and Security with Azure VMware Solution**  
CLOB1800LVS · 5 views · Dennis Boeynaems, Scott Gruenemeier

## How to actually work through it

The failure mode with a 188-session catalogue is predictable. You bookmark twelve, watch none, and by the time you get to them the release has moved on.

Pick three. Put them in the calendar as real appointments rather than aspirations. Then book an hour afterwards with whoever else on your team watched, with one question on the agenda: what changes in our estate because of this? If the answer is nothing, that is a legitimate outcome. Just say it out loud, because “nothing changes” is different from “we never got around to deciding.”

*View counts are early on-demand figures from the public video library and will have moved since. Session titles, codes and speakers are as published by Broadcom. Sessions are findable by code at the official VMware Explore video search.*

*Views expressed here are my own.*