Tag: NSX

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: A Field Engineer’s Read

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Broadcom released VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 on May 5, 2026. The official messaging is all about AI. Ignore that for now. Here is what actually changed and what it means if you run these environments for a living.

First — What Is VCF?

VCF bundles vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and lifecycle management into one platform. You manage compute, storage, and networking together. One upgrade process. One support call. One control plane.

If you run standalone vSphere today, VCF is the same infrastructure — with automation and operational structure on top. It is not a replacement for your skills. It is a framework for running them at scale.

What Changed in 9.1 — Feature by Feature

Scale: 5,000 Hosts Per Instance

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Welcome to INITBT | Can Karahaliloglu, Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer

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I have been working in IT infrastructure for 16 years. Not in meetings. Not in slide decks. In datacenters, racking servers, pulling cables, troubleshooting at 2am, and figuring out why something that worked yesterday suddenly does not work today.

Over the years I have worked across some of the most demanding environments you can find: semiconductor manufacturing, global banking, space agency operations, and large-scale cloud platforms. The one thing they all had in common: when something breaks, it costs real money, and someone needs to fix it fast.

This blog exists because this industry never stops moving, and not always in the right direction.

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