Scaling Tanzu Greenplum Just Got Smarter and FasterScaling Tanzu Greenplum Just Got Smarter and...Agility is everything—especially when your data platform needs to grow. That’s why we’ve reimagined gpexpand, our online cluster expansion tool, to deliver a dramatically faster, more seamless scale-out experience. Whether you’re adding a few nodes or moving terabytes of data across your... Continue Reading →

Deploying vSphere 9.0 Memory Tiering: Cluster Integration and Management-Part-02...Deploying vSphere 9.0 Memory Tiering: Cluster...Part 1 established host-level vSphere Memory Tiering activation. This segment extends deployment to a multi-host vSphere cluster, addressing consistency and integration with distributed services. It details vSphere Client GUI configuration, interaction with vMotion, DRS, [...]Broadcom Social Media Advocacy

At #VMwareExplore 2025, Paul Turner, VP of Products at Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Division, shared why 9 out of the top 10 Fortune 500 companies and 95% of top manufacturers are committed to VCF, and how VCF provides the controls, security, and trust that businesses require. More in Paul's blog:The Unprecedented Momentum of VCF:... Continue Reading →

Three years ago at #VMwareExplore, we introduced private AI. Today, the world has caught on. The difference? Enabling choice - in models, services, and hardware - on a common AI platform that protects your data and scales for the future. More in Chris Wolf's #VMwareExplore blog:Three years ago, we introduced private AI....Three years ago at... Continue Reading →

10 VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Enhancements: Simplifying Your Day 2 Operations10 VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Enhancements:...As organizations prepare to upgrade to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, understanding Day 2 operational changes becomes critical for a successful transition. In previous versions such as VCF 5.2, many administrative tasks—such as network pool creation, host commissioning, and workload... Continue Reading →

The CloudHealth team is ecstatic to announce that Broadcom has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Management Tools!Broadcom (CloudHealth) Named a Leader in the...The CloudHealth team is ecstatic to announce that Broadcom has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Management Tools!Broadcom... Continue Reading →

VCF 5.2.1 On VxRail – ‘Failed to retrieve silenced health checks’ _ davidring.ieVCF 5.2.1 On VxRail – ‘Failed to retrieve...The SDDC Manager GUI displays an alert indicating a failure to fetch silenced health checks: 'Failed to retrieve silenced health checks. Invalid vsan health check query id' You may find a message similar to the following... Continue Reading →

NPUs in Mini PCs are Worthless for a Home Lab, Here's WhyNPUs in Mini PCs are Worthless for a Home Lab,...Mini PCs boast NPU TOPs, but in a home lab they add nothing. Learn why NPUs don’t help Ollama, LM Studio, or real AI workloads today.Broadcom Social Media Advocacy

Adding an Existing VCF Instance to a VCF Fleet _ lifeofbrianoc.comAdding an Existing VCF Instance to a VCF Fleet...This is a scenario that is not covered very well in our current VCF 9.0 docs (I am working to rectify that), where a customer has more than 1 existing VCF 5.x instance and they want to... Continue Reading →

From vSphere to VCF 9.0: GCI’s Journey to a Modern Private CloudFrom vSphere to VCF 9.0: GCI’s Journey to a...At VMware Explore 2025, host Pete Flecha sits down with Dave Linthicum, Rick Walsworth, and James Schorr, Sr. Director of Enterprise Cloud Platforms at GCI—Alaska’s largest telecom provider—to discuss GCI’s journey from vSphere to VMware Cloud... Continue Reading →