OpenNebula 7.2 introduces a single-process control plane, declarative cluster provisioning via OneForm, and native NVIDIA Fabric Manager integration for GPU-dense AI workloads. It occupies a unique architectural middle ground: lighter than OpenStack, stronger multi-tenancy than Proxmox VE, and more modern API surfaces than Apache CloudStack
If you are still spinning up massive, nested ESXi environments just to test a basic PowerCLI script, a Python vSphere API wrapper, or a custom Terraform provider, you are wasting compute. Marketing teams want you to buy more hardware for dev environments; engineering reality dictates we simulate. Enter VCSIM (vCenter Server Simulator) —the lightweight vCenter simulator that boots in milliseconds instead of hours.
Broadcom shipped VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 in May 2026. The marketing says “AI-ready private cloud.” The release notes tell a different story — one about operational maturity finally catching up to the platform’s ambition.
I’ve been running VMware Cloud Foundation since the 3.x days. This is the first release where the day-2 operations story feels complete. Not perfect. Complete.
Proxmox VE 9 and Proxmox Backup Server 4.0 were both officially released in late July to early August 2025, introducing major platform upgrades and significant new capabilities.
VMware vSphere has long been the foundation of enterprise virtualization. Now, with VMware vSphere 9.0, VMware is taking another leap forward to support modern workloads like AI/ML, GPU-intensive applications, hybrid cloud, and containerized environments.
VMware vSAN is a powerful, software-defined storage solution that makes storage management easier by pooling local disks from ESXi hosts into a single storage platform. Its close integration with vSphere makes it a popular choice for organisations looking to modernise their infrastructure. However, implementing vSAN effectively necessitates a thorough understanding of its requirements and best practices.
This guide discusses VMware vSAN's requirements, fault domain configurations, disk group design, host recommendations, and comparisons to block storage solutions such as Dell PowerStore and Unity. It also covers database deployment on vSAN and offers actionable tips to ensure a successful implementation.