Broadcom announced VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, a release positioned as a private cloud platform for production AI, modern apps, and traditional workloads, according to the VMware Cloud Foundation blog (May 5, 2026). William Lam published a technical post titled “VCF 9.1 – Demystifying Supported Upgrade Paths to 9.1” that outlines the main supported upgrade combinations and includes visuals and an interactive planning tool, per williamlam.com (May 23, 2026). CaptainvOps published a hands-on upgrade walkthrough documenting a lab upgrade from VCF 9.0.2 to VCF 9.1, noting steps for VCF Operations and a new VCF license appliance deployment (captainvops.com, May 2026). Broadcom’s public knowledge-base article warns that an incorrect upgrade sequence can trigger errors and that VCF 9.1 binaries may not appear in VCF Operations 9.0 (knowledge.broadcom.com). The VMware GitHub VCF Upgrade Planner and third-party tools such as VirtualBytes’ advisor are available to validate supported…
VCF 9.1 Clarifies Supported Upgrade Paths
