VCF 9 Architecture Deep Dive: What Changed and Why It Matters
Overview VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) represents a significant evolution in how Broadcom delivers its software-defined data center stack. Released on June 17, 2025, VCF 9 unifies ESX 9.0, vCenter 9.0, NSX 9.0, and vSAN under a single platform version. In this post, we explore the core architectural changes that differentiate VCF 9 from its predecessors and understand why these changes matter for enterprise deployments. VCF 9 Architecture Overview The diagram below shows the high-level architecture of a VCF 9 environment, spanning the management domain and workload domains with all core components: ...