What's New in vSphere for VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1

About this episode

This episode provides a technical overview of the major updates in vSphere 9.1 as part of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1.

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 brings major updates to vSphere, and in this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson sit down with Feidhlim O’Leary for a deeper technical look at what’s new. The conversation explores how vSphere 9.1 improves lifecycle management, streamlines firmware and driver updates, enhances VM management, and expands memory tiering capabilities introduced in earlier releases. Feidhlim also shares insights into observability improvements, operational simplification, and the types of day-to-day enhancements that practitioners will immediately appreciate. From certificate management and lifecycle automation to performance optimization and hardware enablement, this episode focuses on the practical operational improvements that make vSphere 9.1 one of the most substantial platform releases in recent years. If you’re running VMware Cloud Foundation or vSphere environments at scale, this is a great technical overview of the updates infrastructure teams should know about. #VMware #vSphere #VCF #VMwareCloudFoundation #virtuallyspeakingpodcast Links Mentioned What’s New with vSphere in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1…

People in this episode

Hosts: Pete Flecha, John Nicholson

Guest: Feidhlim O’Leary

Topics covered

• vSphere updates
• VMware Cloud Foundation
• lifecycle management
• firmware updates
• VM management
• observability improvements
• operational simplification

Keywords

• vSphere 9.1
• VMware Cloud Foundation
• lifecycle automation
• performance optimization
• memory tiering
• certificate management
• hardware enablement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: VMware, VMware Cloud Foundation

Products: vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1

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