VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Unpacked: A Technical Breakdown

Welcome to the seventh episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast's VCF 9 series! In this installment, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson unpack VMware Cloud Foundation 9 with William Lam, Distinguished Platform Engineer at Broadcom.

 

Key Highlights:

• Complete re-architecture of the software stack
• Core Platform Innovations:

- Compute: Support for VMs up to 1000 vCPUs and 16TB memory

- Memory Tiering: Transparent NVMe memory expansion

- vSAN Global Deduplication (30-40% storage efficiency)

- First-class Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) constructs in vCenter

 

• Unified Management Capabilities:

- Global control plane with VCF Operations

- Simplified single sign-on across identity providers

- Unified patch and upgrade management

- Non-disruptive certificate management

- Centralized fleet-level operations

 

• Automation and Multi-tenancy:

- Native multi-tenancy across compute, storage, and networking

- Self-service resource allocation

- Support for Kubernetes namespaces

- Declarative API and automation support

 

• Deployment Flexibility:

- New VCF Installer supporting Greenfield and Brownfield deployments

- Ability to import and convert existing infrastructure

 

Join us as we dive deep into the technical innovations of VMware Cloud Foundation 9 in this comprehensive podcast episode.