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Pathways to VCF 9

Explained by the architects who design, deploy and run the platform.

With support for vSphere 8 and VCF 5.2 ending in October 2027, organisations are considering their next steps. For those planning a move to VCF 9, the decisions extend to how their private cloud will be designed, managed and operated. Below, we look at what that move means in practice.

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VCF 9: what's ahead for VMware Private Cloud

Featured interview

Joe Baguley - EMEA CTO, Broadcom

Donal Byrne - CTO, Triangle Technology Services

Joe Baguley and Donal Byrne discuss how organisations are weighing public and private cloud decisions, including cost, control and sovereignty. They look at what VCF 9.1 brings to the private cloud experience and consider how AI, security and recovery requirements are changing what teams need from the platform.

More videos from our experts

Triangle’s VMware architects share their views on VCF architecture, NSX, vSAN ESA and VCF Operations. Together, the videos cover how the platform is structured, secured, stored and managed, and what each area means for designing and running a VCF environment.

Video 1

VCF 9: architectural concepts

Ian Browne, Director of Technology, Triangle

Ian steps back from the individual components to look at VMware Cloud Foundation as a whole: the building blocks, how management and workload domains are structured and how the platform scales.

Video 2

NSX: networking and security in VCF

Bartosz Jaskiewicz, VMware Solutions Architect, Triangle

Bartosz explains routing and switching, distributed security and observability, then looks at where micro-segmentation makes a practical difference. He explores the role of NSX in maintaining consistent policies, visibility and control as workloads move and environments evolve.

Video 3

VMware vSAN: from OSA to ESA

Shane Devlin, VMware Solutions Architect, Triangle

Shane traces how vSAN has evolved from its original architecture to ESA and why storage design shapes how a private cloud performs, scales and is maintained. He then looks at what those changes mean in practice when designing and operating a VCF environment.

Video 4

VCF Operations: visibility, capacity & control

Michael O’Toole, VMware Solutions Architect, Triangle

Michael outlines how VCF 9 gives VCF Operations a broader role in managing the platform, and what this means for teams maintaining oversight, planning capacity and managing change over time.

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Technical guidance for planning and operating VCF 9

The route to VCF 9 depends on the environment you already run. This guide looks at how VMware Cloud Foundation supports resilient day-to-day operations, from lifecycle management and workload availability to storage, observability and network policy.

VMware Cloud Foundation - technical guide

VMware Cloud Foundation: a technical guide to operational resilience

How lifecycle management, workload availability, storage, observability and network policy contribute to operational resilience across VMware Cloud Foundation.

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Primark accelerates growth with resilient cloud infrastructure

“Our reliability has improved drastically since we modernised our data centres. With our ambitious opening of new stores, we needed to leverage our VMware Cloud Foundation platform to scale quickly as needed. Store planning can take up to three years, but from an infrastructure point of view, we’re ready to go at the flick of a switch.”

Cian O'Leary Data Centre Operations Lead, Primark
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Working with Broadcom

Triangle has worked with VMware technologies for more than 20 years. Today, we are a Broadcom Pinnacle Partner, the highest tier of the Broadcom Advantage Partner Program. Our Director of Technology Ian Browne and Solutions Architect Shane Devlin are both Broadcom Knights for VMware Cloud Foundation.

What Pinnacle status means for clients

Start with where you are

In a 30-minute conversation with one of Triangle’s VMware architects, we can look at what you’re running today, what your licence entitles you to, and the questions to work through before an upgrade. Where it makes sense, the next step is a full environment assessment, which Triangle delivers as a separate engagement.

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