Welcome to part 4 of the VCF-9.1 home lab series. The previous post in this series discussed the pre-deployment planning and checklist. In this post, I will demonstrate setting up an offline depot for deploying a VCF 9.1 fleet. The
Welcome to part 5 of the VCF-9.1 home lab series. The previous post in this series discussed setting up an offline depot. In this post, I will demonstrate deploying the VCF 9.1 management domain. After you configure the depot settings
Welcome to part 3 of the VCF-9.1 home lab series. The previous post in this series discussed the VCF 9.1 high-level design and lab best practices. In this post, I will discuss the planning and preparation for deploying a VCF
VCF 9.1 was released last week and created quite a buzz in the VMware community worldwide. If VCF 9.0 was the architectural reset, 9.1 is the optimization layer — the release where the new constructs introduced in 9.0 get hardened,
NVIDIA delivers the performance, scale and reliability that frontier training requires — in benchmarks and beyond.Every breakthrough AI model starts the same way: with a training run. The infrastructure running those training jobs shapes everything: how fast teams can iterate,
Now generally available in Microsoft Foundry, Claude on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra gives Azure-native enterprises a new foundation for building autonomous and domain-specific AI agents. Anthropic’s Claude models in Microsoft Foundry — hosted on Microsoft Azure and running on NVIDIA GB300
Next-generation NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet connects hundreds of thousands of GPUs with the performance, resilience and efficiency needed for gigascale AI, with AI infrastructure leaders already adopting.AI has entered the gigascale era. The world’s most advanced AI factories are bringing together
VCF 9 is finally out, so the big question is, how do we upgrade our existing environment to take advantage of the new features The upgrade for this is significantly more complicated than a vSphere 7 –> 8 upgrade normally
Introduction VMware snapshots provide a point-in-time representation of a virtual machine’s virtual disk state. They are useful for short-term testing, maintenance, and controlled change operations. However, snapshots are not intended to replace backups and should not be left active indefinitely.
Introduction Keeping ESXi hosts and vSphere components current is an important part of infrastructure maintenance. Updates can provide security improvements, bug fixes, hardware compatibility, and new capabilities. However, upgrades should be carefully planned to minimize operational risk. INFO Always validate
