VCF Operations Dashboard Recovery – #vExpert Brock PetersonVCF Operations Dashboard RecoveryLooking to recover a mistakenly deleted VCF Operations Dashboard I discovered Dashboard backups on my Analytics Nodes. Specifically, they can be found in the following directory on every Analytics Node in your Operations Cluster:/storage/db/vcops/dashboard_dumpFrom within there will be a [...]Broadcom Social Media Advocacy
For Vijay Janapaty, Vice President and General Manager of the Physical Layer Products division at Broadcom, it’s not about a single feature or product. It’s a relentless pursuit of excellence—delivering sustainable differentiation and value to customers, generation after generation.What Does Innovation Mean at Broadcom? 💡Vijay...Vijay Janapaty, VP & GM of Broadcom's Physical Layer Products division,... Continue Reading →
Solving the Physics of Data Movement: Cut Interconnect Power by 70%Solving the Physics of Data Movement: Cut...Hasan Siraj, VP of Product Management in Broadcom’s Core Switching Group, shares how Broadcom is tackling the physics of data movement to make next-generation AI both physically possible and economically viable. Featuring Tomahawk 6-Davisson—the industry's first 100 Terabit switch... Continue Reading →
Hear from the experts, the Broadcom Events team, on how to plan and navigate your way through #VMwareExplore 2026 in Las Vegas. This fun and informative session provides insights and best practices on how to get the most out of your Explore experience.VMware Explore 2026 Welcome SessionHear from the experts, the Broadcom Events team, on... Continue Reading →
vSphere Configuration Profiles in VCF 9 – #vExpert Stephan McTighevSphere Configuration Profiles in VCF 9Since vSphere 8u3 there has been a successor Host Profiles called vSphere Configuration Profiles. There were some limitations in that version involving the presence of NSX not being support which is not the case in VCF9! One of the great benefits... Continue Reading →
Fixing the Swagger localhost:8600 Server URL in VCF Automation 9.1: Overriding a Spec Baked Into the Image – #vExpert Cosmin TrifFixing the Swagger localhost:8600 Server URL in...The in-product API Help Center in VCF Automation 9.1 advertises http://localhost:8600 as the server URL for the VCF Automation (Blueprint) API, so every Try It Out call goes to... Continue Reading →
25Gb Networking vs 100Gb Networking with VMware vSAN25Gb Networking vs 100Gb Networking with VMware...Over the past four years, the VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) has demonstrated extraordinary performance capabilities for our customers. But, as noted in a series of blog posts, a distributed storage system like vSAN relies not just on the hardware of... Continue Reading →
VCF Operations Workbench Tools – #vExpert Brock PetersonVCF Operations Workbench ToolsI was doing some work in VCF Operations 9.1 and came across this, what?! I don't recall seeing it called out in the Release Notes but it is documented formally here.Now when I'm troubleshooting a VM from the VCF Operations Workbench I can SSH directly... Continue Reading →
Configuring OIDC with PKCE in Keycloak for VCF Private AI Services | William LamConfiguring OIDC with PKCE in Keycloak for VCF...I have taken a short hiatus from playing with my NVIDIA RTX 4000, which fits perfectly inside a Minisforum MS-A2 and is what I use to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1. While redeploying my... Continue Reading →
Preparing Private Cloud for the AI Era | In this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete Flecha and Jad El-Zein are joined by Vivek Vijay and John Hall from Kyndryl to discuss what it takes to prepare private cloud environments for the AI era.Preparing Private Cloud for the AI EraAI is changing the way... Continue Reading →
