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Using VCF Download Tool (VCFDT) with a Kerberos-Authenticated HTTPS Proxy – William Lam
While modern authentication protocols like OAuth 2.0 and mTLS are the de-facto standard these days, Kerberos-based (GSS-API/SPNEGO) authentication is still commonly used within many enterprise organizations. The challenge is that many modern applications and development frameworks do not […]
Clearing the “Virtual Machine UEFI Secure Boot Platform Key is out of date” Alarm After VCF 9.1.1 – #vExpert Tommy Grot
[Tested on VCF 9.1.1.0, September 2026] After upgrading to VCF 9.1.1, a new warning showed up on a handful of my VMs and rolled up to the cluster level: Virtual Machine UEFI Secure Boot Platform Key is out of date. Refer KB 423893 […]
VCF Helping You Respond to PHP2Shell
(Day 17 of 22. Today: responding to a busy week of vulnerabilities) We are deviating from our posted schedule a little bit to talk about the events of this week: a lot of vulnerability news at once, including two critical flaws in PHP, known as PHP2Shell […]
GitOps for VMs on VCF 9 – #vExpert Rutger Blom
Declarative VMs on vSphere aren’t new. VM Service has let you describe a VM as a Kubernetes object since vSphere 7.0 Update 2a, and with the VCF Automation All Apps model the platform team sets the guardrails while the developer gets a Kubernetes API. Add Git and a reconciler, and you have […]
Quick Tip – Improved NVMe Tiering Device Health Monitoring in VCF 9.1 – William Lam
Unfortunately, one of my consumer-grade NVMe SSD devices that I had configured for NVMe Tiering (Memory Tiering) in my VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1.1 environment had recently degraded. While vCenter Server had raised an alarm stating “NVMe Memory Tiering device is not healthy.”, […]
Demystifying VKS Networking with VCF – #vExpert Avnish Tripathi
A full walk of the VKS data path on NSX — from the physical NIC to pod eth0 — with the address rewrites measured in a live lab rather than assumed.
More Memory, Less Money: Exploring Memory Tiering in VCF 9 – #vExpert Ward Vissers
My VCF 9 lab is getting bigger and bigger. I still need more and more resources. I have not even [been] running vDefend or AVI. Currently, VCF services run with high availability even in my small lab.The investment that I did is paying out. VCF 9 supports memory tiering. Which is great because […]
Bypassing Minimum Storage Pre-Check for vDefend Security Services Platform (SSP) 5.2 Lab Deployments – William Lam
After successfully deploying the vDefend Security Services Platform (SSP) 5.2 Installer, which I recently built some automation for, the next step is to deploy an SSP Instance. I was surprised to see there was a fairly hefty minimum storage pre-check of a little over 3.5TB, something I certainly …Read More
What 188 Sessions Tell You About Explore 2026 – #vExpert Mohammad “Sarge” Siddiqui
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.
VCF 9.1.1 Is Billed as a Maintenance Release. The Networking Documentation Says Otherwise. | The release notes say supportability improvements and an updated BoM. Six capabilities got added to the Distributed VXLAN Connectivity Model, and there’s a patch ordering dependency that will break your window if you miss it. – #vExpert Mohammad “Sarge” Siddiqui
The release notes say supportability improvements and an updated BoM. Six capabilities got added to the Distributed VXLAN Connectivity Model, and there’s a patch ordering dependency that will break your window if you miss it.
