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VCF 9.1 - Updated VCF Design Blueprints & VCF Fleet Latency Diagrams for VCF Architects

05.12.2026 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 is now generally available! 🥳

In addition to the revamped VCF 9.1 Technical Documentation which includes the 9.1 release notes, which everyone should be reviewing in detail, we have released a number of new resources for our VCF architects and practitioners to help you on your 9.1 journey! 🧠

VCF Design Blueprints

ℹ️ Direct URL link to the VCF Design Blueprints

In addition to refreshing the VCF Fleet Design Blueprints for 9.1, we now have VCF Blueprints spanning a number of topics across: Edge, Fleet Management, Monitoring, Alerting, Troubleshooting, Workload Consumption, Lateral Security, Data Protection, Disaster and Cyber Recovery!

  • Infrastructure Modernization
    • VCF Fleet in a Single Site with Minimal Footprint
    • VCF Fleet in a Single Site
    • VCF Fleet with Multiple Sites in a Single Region
    • VCF Fleet with Multiple Sites Across Multiple Regions
    • VCF Fleet with Multiple Sites in a Single Region plus Additional Region(s)
    • VCF Fleet Management
    • VCF Monitoring & Alerting
    • VCF Troubleshooting
    • VCF Edge for Single Node with ArgoCD
    • VCF Edge for Government & Defense
    • VCF Edge for Manufacturing
  • Application Modernization
    • VCF Self-Service Multi-Tenant Private Cloud Consumption
    • VCF vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) Consumption
    • VCF Private AI Services Consumption
  • Security Modernization
    • VCF Lateral Security with vDefend
    • VCF Component Backup and Restore
    • VCF Instance Backup and Restore
    • VCF Fleet Disaster Recovery
    • VCF Cyber Recovery

VCF Fleet Latency

ℹ️ Direct URL link to the VCF Fleet Latency Diagram

The VCF 9.0 Fleet Latency Diagram has been an extremely popular resource since its release with VCF Architects and Practitioners. With the new VCF 9.1 constructs that were introduced, the VCF Fleet Latency Diagram has also been updated and is part of the 9.1 release which you can access by going to the ports.broadcom.com and navigating to Network Diagrams section.

Categories // VMware Cloud Foundation Tags // VCF 9.1

VCF 9.1 - Comprehensive VCF Installer & SDDC Manager Configuration Workarounds for Lab Deployments

05.11.2026 by William Lam // 2 Comments

With the announcement of VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, I know many of you are eager to start planning for 9.1 and get it into your lab environment for hands-on experience as the first step toward pre-production validation.

Unless you are among the few with adequate resources, including servers listed on the Broadcom Compatibility Guide (BCG), most lab environments are resource constrained in one way or another.

To help expedite your 9.1 deployment for non-production usage, I have documented the various VCF Installer and SDDC Manager configuration workarounds that can used for lab deployments, especially for functional testing and/or for educational purpose.

I will continue to update this page with new information, so be sure to bookmark for your single reference!

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Categories // Home Lab, VMware Cloud Foundation Tags // VCF 9.1

VCF 9.1 - Comprehensive ESX Configuration Workarounds for Lab Deployments

05.11.2026 by William Lam // 3 Comments

With the announcement of VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, I know many of you are eager to start planning for 9.1 and get it into your lab environment for hands-on experience as the first step toward pre-production validation.

Unless you are among the few with adequate resources, including servers listed on the Broadcom Compatibility Guide (BCG), most lab environments are resource constrained in one way or another.

To help expedite your 9.1 deployment for non-production usage, I have documented the various ESX configuration workarounds that can used for lab deployments, especially for functional testing and/or for educational purpose.

I will continue to update this page with new information, so be sure to bookmark for your single reference!

[Read more...]

Categories // ESXi, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere Foundation Tags // VCF 9.1

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