For a production deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), there is a good reason why you might not want to run everything on a single […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2026
Bypassing Minimum Unique Flows & Metric Collection Period for vDefend Security Services Platform (SSP) 5.2 Lab Deployments
After successfully deploying vDefend Security Services Platform (SSP) 5.2 in my VCF 9.1.1 environment, I came to learn that SSP requires at least 1,000 unique […]
PowerShell Module for vDefend Security Services Platform (SSP) 5.2 Installer Configuration and Instance Deployment
After recently sharing my automation for deploying the vDefend Security Services Platform (SSP) 5.2 Installer, the next logical step was automating the configuration of the […]
Bypassing Minimum Storage Pre-Check for vDefend Security Services Platform (SSP) 5.2 Lab Deployments
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 […]
Quick Tip — Improved NVMe Tiering Device Health Monitoring in VCF 9.1
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 […]
Using VCF Download Tool (VCFDT) with a Kerberos-Authenticated HTTPS Proxy
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 […]
VCF 9.1.1 — Connecting Pi Coding Agent to VCF Private AI Services (PAIS)
If you have used Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenAI Codex, you have already experienced Agentic AI, whether it is coding an application, creating a quick […]
Quick Tip — Automating vDefend Security Services Platform (SSP) 5.2.0 Installer OVA Deployment
Given the current security threats from Frontier AI, vDefend Security Services Platform (SSP) was top of mind for many attendees at the recent VMware Explore […]
VCF 9.1.1 — Simplified vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) using VLAN-Backed VPCs without NSX Tunnel Endpoints (TEPs)
As part of the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1.1 release, consuming NSX Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) has gotten simpler, especially for environments using traditional VLAN-backed […]
VCF 9.1.1 — Using VCF Private AI Services (PAIS) Models with AI Assistant for VCF
For those following along, earlier this week I demonstrated how to configure the new AI Assistant for VCF in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1.1 using […]
