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VMware{code} Hackathon for Explore Las Vegas 2026
Design with VMware {code}. Code with AI. AI Hackathon • VMware Explore Las Vegas 2026 Monday, August 3rd, 2026 Register Now The VMware {code} Hackathon returns to VMware Explore Las Vegas 2026—but this year we’re doing something different. Artificial Intelligence is transforming how we […]
VMware{code} Hackathon for Explore Las Vegas 2026
Design with VMware {code}. Code with AI. AI Hackathon • VMware Explore Las Vegas 2026 Monday, August 3rd, 2026 Register Now The VMware {code} Hackathon returns to VMware Explore Las Vegas 2026—but this year we’re doing something different. Artificial Intelligence is transforming how we […]
Why AI Changes the Security Game | In this episode, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson welcome back Bob Plankers for a deeper conversation on why AI changes the security game.
In this episode, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson welcome back Bob Plankers for a deeper conversation on why AI changes the security game. Bob explains how AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, exploit creation, malware customization, and even end-to-end attack execution. The discussion […]
Don’t miss your chance! ⏳ Voting for the #VMwareExplore People’s Choice Awards closes Friday. This is your final call to choose which sessions take the stage in Las Vegas:
Vote in the VMware Explore 2026 People’s Choice Awards—pick your favorite session in each track. Voting ends Friday, July 10.
More Capacity with VMware vSAN Compression and Global Deduplication in VCF 9.1
Driving down the cost of storage is the motivation behind our ongoing work to improve efficiency in vSAN. When you can store more data on the same physical hardware through software enhancements, everybody wins. vSAN in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 delivers two new enhancements that […]
Announcing Data Services Manager 9.1 | Cormac Hogan
It gives me great pleasure to announce the availability of Data Services Manger version 9.1. This releases sees a new data service, Microsoft SQL Server, now included in Data Services Manager. I know many of our customers are anticipating this data service, so it is great to finally announce […]
VCF 9.1.x Ultimate Deployment Guide – Leaha’s Blog
In this guide we will be taking a look through the deployment of the full VCF 9 suite, using the new easy installer. We will go through installing and configuring ESX for the management network and setting the certificates up, I will give a very rough overview of the networking, but this varies [..]
VCF 9.1 – Top 20 Highlights for Cloud Service Providers | #vExpert Avnish Tripathi
Multi-tenancy, self-service, networking isolation, storage economics, fleet operations — curated for the CSP lens. VCF 9.1 is arguably the most CSP-significant VCF release in recent memory. The networking story alone — edge-free distributed connectivity, VPC isolation policies, EVPN/VXLAN […]
VCF 9 – Post 2 | Home Lab Validation: Official Requirements vs. Available Environment. #vExpert Fabio Santos Gomes
In the first post, I introduced the general idea of the project: setting up a simple environment featuring VMware Avi Load Balancer + vSphere Supervisor using VDS on VCF 9. Now comes a less glamorous—yet essential—part: validating whether my home lab is capable of supporting this design.
VCF 9 – Post 3 | Network Design for AVI + Supervisor with VDS. #vExpert Fabio Santos Gomes
The Supervisor documentation regarding VDS and Avi clearly states that the environment requires the separation of network functions: the Management Network, the Avi Data Network, and the Supervisor Workload Network. The Avi Controller and the Service Engines’ management interfaces reside […]
