VCF 9 – Principal Storage meaning changed?
Came across Broadcom Article ID 416270, Supporting all Principal Storage Options in VCF 9.
iSCSI, NFS v4.1, and NVMe over Fabrics (FC or TCP) have been know as supplemental storage, but here, they are referred to as Principal.
Either way, this shows how to use Supplemental Storage to stand up a VCF Domain (either Management or Workload).
Not sure about this nuance in Principal vs Supplemental….
VMware Blog post is here.
vSAN ESA ReadyNode Hardware Guidance
Found in the VMware Hardware Compatibility Guide, this calls out some of the details when selecting drives to use with vSAN ESA.
There is a reason for these guides…..
vSAN ESA ReadyNode Hardware Guidance link is here.
vSAN Data Protection – sample use cases
Rapid recovery, cloning, and of course, replication with/without DR.
VMware Blog post is here.
VCF 9 Memory Tiering – How to configure
Take advantage of this capability!
Double the RAM in your system via an NVMe drive!
…don’t forget that the NVMe drive must be dedicated to tiering…
Blog post is here.
VCF Operations – vCommunity Management Pack
A community created set of dashboards, views, reports, and super metrics.
…well, led by OnurYuzseven (Broadcom TAM)….
Covers how to install, as well as how to consume.
Brock Peterson’s Blog post is here.
Brock Peterson’s part 2 post is here.
VCF 9 Advanced Exams – 1st batch released
VCAPs are taking a turn in the new Broadcom Era…..
VCAPs are now considered “specialties”.
Right now, 3 VCAP exams cover:
Automation, Operations, or VKS (vSphere Kubernetes Service.
More VCAPs are coming soon….
I’m taking the VCF 9 Operations exam this week, so we’ll see how that goes…
VMware Certifications Page is here.
VCDX – now VMware Certified Distinguished Expert
Looking forward to seeing the details….
Did get a preview of things at the Broadcom Knights event at VMware Explore, but can’t share till the proper details are released officially.
VMware Blog post is here.
VCF 9.0.1 Homelab & vSAN ESA HCL
I missed this post originally, and William Lam pointed it out.
With VCF 9.0.1, you can run your Nested ESXi hosts with vSAN ESA.
Just follow this post, make some changes on the VCF Installer.
If you are going to be doing a Workload Domain….
Further down the post are the changes needed on t he SDDC-Manager.
Palo Alto & Arista Partnership
Arista’s AI for networking expertise using AVA (Autonomous Virtual Assist) with Palo Alto Networks NGFW (Next Generation Firewalls) and the Strata Network Security platform.
Arista Blog post is here.
Nutanix NKP – deploying in a Dark Site
A nice walkthrough on how to deploy in a site with no internet access.
Nutanix Dev post is here.
Nutanix Flow – building a basic VPC
An example with “No NAT” configured.
Blog post is here.
Free Learning – GitHub Repo
KodeKloud
Nutanix University
Nutanix .NEXT 2026 – April 7-9, Chicago, IL
PluralSight
vBrownBag
VMware Hands On Labs
VMware Explore 2026 – August 31 – September 3, Las Vegas, NV
VMware Explore 2025 Sessions (William Lam’s easier to search list version)