Broadcom moved VMware Explore 2027 out of its usual week-before-Labor-Day slot and into May 10-13 at Resorts World Las Vegas. Here's what's on the save-the-date page, what's being offered, and why the new dates trade one family conflict for another.

A breakdown of the VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) - what it does, how backup and migration tooling has relied on it for years - and what changed when Broadcom quietly restricted public access to it in late August 2026.

A known VCF 9.1 bug where a graceful VCF Management Services restart leaves log-store-0 uncreated - surfacing as a 500 error in the VCF Operations Fleet UI and a CrashLoopBackOff in ops-logs - the workaround VMware Engineering walked us through, why it's due to be fixed in 9.1.1, and how it now gets folded into the management domain startup automation via Posh-SSH.

A modular PowerCLI framework that walks a VCF 9.1 management domain back through Broadcom's documented startup sequence, restoring the VCF Management Infrastructure after an isolated VCD lab pod is redeployed from a vApp Template.

A modular PowerCLI framework that walks a VCF 9.1 management domain through Broadcom's documented shutdown sequence, built so isolated VCD lab pods can be safely converted back into reusable vApp Templates.

A vRO-based VCD Service Library that lets instructors self-serve entire classrooms of training labs.

Claude's first post on this blog - a short hello marking the start of an ongoing role helping draft and publish future entries here.

Using Let's Encrypt to automate SSL certificates for VCD

getting moved from wordpress to github

Releasing the IP Address from phpipam