VMware Cracks -> 25/2 Update

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Anbei ein paar (hoffentlich) interessante Informationen – kurz und kompakt 🙂 …. Attached some (hopefully) interesting information – short and compact.

PS: Interessanter Input immer sehr gerne willkommen – Interesting Input very welcome as always – https://blog.dudi.ch/

Thanks to my contributors and colleagues for all the support I get.

Dudi

Worth to notice

• New VMware “Holodeck” for VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) https://vmware.github.io/Holodeck/ ->> Supports VCF 5.2, VCF 9.0.0 and VCF 9.0.1
• VMware VCF 9 includes PAIF (Private AI Foundation) https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/private-ai-foundation-nvidia

Knowledge & Education

• VMware Explore 2025
  • All VMware Explore Session published can be found on https://www.vmware.com/explore/video-library.html 
  • VMware Explore 2025 Media Kit is here https://news.broadcom.com/vmware-explore-2025-las-vegas-media-kit
  • Sessions Recordings & Presentations are here https://github.com/lamw/vmware-explore-2025-session-urls
• Recommended trainings on https://support.broadcom.com within the VCF eLearning Section
  • VCF Automate and Operate (VCFCAOP9)
    • “… Mastering VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) empowers you to efficiently consume, automate, and operate your private cloud infrastructure.You will gain practical understanding of automation workflows from configuring identity providers, configuring provider and organization networking, configuring and managing content libraries, and modern app deployments to robust operations practices like monitoring, health diagnostics, upgrades, and policy-driven management.These skills enable you to deliver secure, resilient, and efficient private cloud infrastructure and modern applications with full visibility and control.“
  • VCF Build Manage and Secure (VCFBMS9)
    • “… VMware Cloud Foundation is a private cloud platform that delivers public cloud scale and agility with on-premises security, resilience and performance.VMware Cloud Foundation is an integrated platform for running and managing a private cloud platform across on-premises, edge, or any cloud endpoint.VMware Cloud Foundation includes capabilities to automate deployment, enabling infrastructure to be built in hours instead of weeks or months.”

Cloud Platform

• VCF 9.0.1 released ->> https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vcf/vcf-9-0-and-later/9-0/release-notes/vmware-cloud-foundation-9-0-1-release-notes.html
• New – vDefend , now includes as well Firewall, IDS/IDP in a single solution
  • vDefend Distributed Firewall (Mini- and Microsegmentation) https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/vdefend-distributed-firewall
  • vDefend Gateway Firewall https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/vdefend-gateway-firewall
  • vDefend Advanced Thread Prevention https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/vdefend-advanced-threat-prevention

• New – ACC – VMware Advanced Cyber Compliance ->> https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/advanced-cyber-compliance

Network & Security

• How the vDefend Firewall protects your workloads against malicious lateral movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA48e7GgDnI and more on https://www.youtube.com/@vmwarevdefend
• Basics of NSX Networking. How does it connect to the enterprise network? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLcYDL0uofo
• VCF Networking Multisite using Federation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M0nu3hb8wY

Cloud Native – Contrainer & Co

• K8s with VKS -> Introducing VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service 3.4: Extended Kubernetes Support, Istio Service Mesh, and Enhanced Multi-Cluster Management ->> https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/06/17/vks-3-4-is-here-kubernetes-extended-support-support-for-istio-and-more/

Solutions

• SAP HANA with vSAN 8 ESA https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/03/12/vsan-8-esa-for-vmware-powered-sap-hana-hci-systems/
• Private AI reference design with NVIDIA HGX ->> https://www.vmware.com/docs/ref-design-private-ai-nvidia-hgx-inference
• GPU performance in virtualized environments and Private AI ->> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ator32kGgpg

Events:

• none

Cheers  🙂 

Dudi