Upgrading a vSphere 8 Brownfield Workload Domain to VCF 9: My Step-by-Step Guide – #vExpert Tarsio MoraesUpgrading a vSphere 8 Brownfield Workload...Welcome back! I’m going to walk you through exactly how I upgraded an imported vSphere 8 brownfield workload domain to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0.2. If you remember from my last post, we ran... Continue Reading →

Understanding Activation Memory in Mixture of Experts Models – Frank DennemanUnderstanding Activation Memory in Mixture of...Explains how activation memory behaves in Mixture of Experts models and why long-context and agentic inference introduce unpredictable activation peaks during prefill phases.Broadcom Social Media Advocacy

The Dynamic World of LLM Runtime Memory | In the unpredictable world of production AI, where concurrent users, complex system prompts, and varying RAG content create constant flux, it is easy to view memory as an elusive target. This article is designed to move your service level from probabilistic to deterministic concurrency. – Frank DennemanThe... Continue Reading →

Cluster API, Immutability, and the Future of Kubernetes InfrastructureCluster API, Immutability, and the Future of...Since the Cluster API 1.12 release announcement [1], I keep getting questions about immutability in Kubernetes. Amid this new wave of interest, what stands out is how the Kubernetes community is looking at this topic from a different perspective than in... Continue Reading →

Swallowtail Returns with BeardShell Backdoor and Modified Covenant FrameworkSwallowtail Returns with BeardShell Backdoor...Russian group Swallowtail uses dual implants and cloud services to target UkraineBroadcom Social Media Advocacy

SOLVED: VCF Compute Manager Failed | Fix NSX Error 90204 (Invalid Certificate Chain) – #vExpert Piotr Tarnawski #vmware #vcfSOLVED: VCF Compute Manager Failed | Fix NSX...Are you stuck on the dreaded "Unable to configure fabric" error during your VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) bring-up? 🛑 The SDDC Manager UI tells you to check for "stale extensions"—but... Continue Reading →

Deploying Intel TDX in VCF9 | This post walks through how to deploy and validate Intel TDX in VCF 9.0, using a modern Dell PowerEdge server (R760) as a reference platform. The steps apply to any server with TDX-capable Intel Xeon CPUs. – #vExpert Lukas Klinger, hcidude's blogDeploying Intel TDX in VCF9 - hcidude's blogA... Continue Reading →

Intel TDX vs AMD SEV-SNP in VMware Cloud Foundation 9 - #vExpert Lukas Klinger, hcidude's blogIntel TDX vs AMD SEV-SNP in VMware Cloud...The Complete Confidential Computing Comparison for Private Cloud Architects | Confidential Computing is no longer a hyperscaler-only topic. With VMware Cloud Foundation 9, Confidential Virtual Machines are officially supported on both Intel and... Continue Reading →

Durable Agentic AI Sessions in GPU Memory | How agentic AI workloads accumulate KV cache across reasoning steps and tool calls and why this changes GPU memory planning for on prem infrastructure. – #vExpert Frank DennemanDurable Agentic AI Sessions in GPU MemoryHow agentic AI workloads accumulate KV cache across reasoning steps and tool calls and... Continue Reading →

Minisforum MS-A2 HOW TO: Fix the Failed to Update CPU#0 Microcode PSOD with ESXi 8.0.3i ESXi ESXi 8.0u3i | In this video from Hancock’s VMware Half Hour, I walk through how to fix the PSOD (Purple Screen of Death) “Failed to update CPU#0 microcode” error when installing or booting VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3i (ESXi... Continue Reading →