A practitioner-level walkthrough of VMware Cloud Foundation 9, one focused topic per post, each one validated against the official Broadcom TechDocs. This is a 21-part series, and 20 posts are live.

Published

  1. VCF 9 Architecture Deep Dive: What Changed and Why It Matters, June 15, 2026
  2. VCF 9 Deployment Flow: From Planning to a Running Management Domain, June 22, 2026
  3. VCF 9 Fleet Management Layer: One Control Plane for Every Instance, July 3, 2026
  4. VCF 9 Workload Domain Planning and Deployment, July 6, 2026
  5. VCF 9 NSX VPC Deep Dive: Cloud-Native Networking for Your Private Cloud, July 8, 2026
  6. VCF 9 vSAN ESA Deep Dive: Architecture, Performance, and New Features, July 11, 2026
  7. VCF 9 Lifecycle Management with VCF Operations: Unified Upgrades and Fleet Management, July 14, 2026
  8. VCF 9 Instance Model: Designing HQ, DR, and Edge/Sovereign Topologies, July 17, 2026
  9. VCF 9 Management Domain Anatomy: What Actually Runs Inside, July 20, 2026
  10. Physical Network Design: VDS Separation, ToR Switches, and BGP Uplinks, July 24, 2026
  11. Workload Domain Creation: Greenfield vs Import Existing vCenter, July 25, 2026
  12. VI Workload Domains: Shared vs Dedicated NSX, August 2, 2026
  13. NSX Edge Cluster Deep Dive: Tier-0/Tier-1 Gateways, VPN, and North-South Firewall Design, August 9, 2026
  14. vSAN ESA vs OSA: Storage Architecture Decisions, August 16, 2026
  15. VCF 9 Security and Compliance: DFW, VPC Isolation, and Hardened Operations, August 23, 2026
  16. VCF 9 Identity Broker: Retiring VMware Identity Manager for Unified Fleet Authentication, August 30, 2026
  17. Bundle Management: Online vs Offline/Air-Gapped, September 6, 2026
  18. Day-2 Operations: Lifecycle, Patching, and Compliance via VCF Operations, September 26, 2026
  19. DR & Ransomware Recovery: Isolated Recovery, Protection and Recovery, and VPC Isolation, October 3, 2026
  20. Private AI Workload Domain: GPU Nodes, AI Kubernetes, and Private AI Services, October 11, 2026

Coming up

  1. Advanced Services for VCF: VPC, Load Balancing, and Network Observability, October 19, 2026

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