The Host Networking Stack Is Part of the Guest Isolation Boundary
A checksum hint from a guest reaches host IPv4 code that acts on it after the packet is parsed. What CVE-2026-99999 shows about where the isolation boundary sits.
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The Skills Gap Is the Real VMware Exit Risk
The vmware skills gap that stalls migrations is not a certification problem. It is not a headcount problem. It is an operating model problem — and most VMware exit plans never model it. When an organization exits VMware, the platform changes. The operating model — the accumulated behavior, toolchain fluency, and institutional memory built over…
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The “Lift-and-Shift to KVM” Fallacy
The VM conversion completed without errors. Every workload made it across. The migration dashboard showed green, the project lead closed the ticket, and the consultants left the building. Three weeks later, backup verification jobs are silently failing. Monitoring dashboards are dark. The on-call team is operating without baselines. Nobody knows what normal looks like on…
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Beyond the VMDK: Translating Execution Physics from ESXi to AHV
>_ The Post-Broadcom Migration Series ▶ Part 1 — Execution Physics (You Are Here) Beyond the VMDK: Translating Execution Physics from ESXi to AHV Complete — Part 2 — Resource Contention The Controller Tax: Modeling Hyperconverged Resource Contention Complete — Part 3 — High-I/O Cutover Migration Stutter: Handling High-I/O Cutovers Without Data Loss Complete —…
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The Architecture of Migration: Why Licensing Isn’t Your Biggest Risk in the Post-Broadcom Era
The post-Broadcom infrastructure reality isn’t a licensing problem — it’s an architectural one. The industry is fixated on the Broadcom/VMware shake-up: contracts being torn up, CFOs suddenly caring about hypervisors, renewal clocks nobody planned for. That’s the surface event. But here’s the thing: licensing isn’t the real risk here. What really puts you in danger…
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Proxmox vs VMware in 2026: A Migration Playbook That Actually Works
The “Proxmox curiosity” of 2023 has evolved into the “Proxmox mandate” of 2026. After two years of Broadcom’s portfolio “simplification” — which felt more like a hostage negotiation for mid-market IT — architects are no longer asking if they should move, but how to do it without losing their weekends. I’ve spent 15+ years watching…
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