Let me tell you a quick story.

A while back, I was on a call with VMware support, working through a pretty standard issue. Nothing crazy, until the engineer dropped this simple question:

“Did you take an offline snapshot of your vCenter before proceeding?”

And just like that, I froze 😐 !

Offline snapshot? Of vCenter? Never even crossed my mind.

That one question stuck with me. After the call, I went digging. Turns out, it’s not just a good …

In November 2024, Broadcom announced important updates to the licensing models for its VMware portfolio and introduced a new option for customers.

VMware products can now be organized into four main categories: VCF, VVF, VVS, and VVEP:

• VCF : VMware Cloud Foundation
• VVF : VMware vSphere Foundation
• VVS : VMware vSphere Standard
• VVEP : VMware vSphere Entreprise plus (New)

VCF and VVF are for customers who use vSAN technology as storage providers. VVS and VVEP are for those …