2026
vDefend Distributed Firewall: zero trust at the workload level
Least-privilege policy per vNIC, built on dynamic groups and tags rather than IP addresses — and the honest boundary where federated identity stops and the firewall starts.
Mixed Tenancy 9.1: Designing the Bridge Between VM Apps and All Apps
Compare shared-cluster, separate-cluster, and dedicated-infrastructure designs for controlled transitional coexistence.
VCF 9.1 — Networking & scale: EVPN, VPC L4 and observability
EVPN-VXLAN with the physical fabric, L4 Load Balancer and IPSec VPN on VPC, SDDC Manager sync, bare-metal edge import, multi-NIC VKS and network observability.
Networking in VCF 9: from vDS to pod, the packet path explained
How a packet travels from the virtual switch to a VKS pod — vDS, NSX segments, T0/T1, NSX ALB and their trade-offs. The architect's networking guide.