What a year 2025 has been. It started with AI hype at Google Next and ended with a complete overhaul of how we license VMware in the cloud.

The Highlights

1. VCF Portability: The Broadcom partnership changed the game. We are all BYOL customers now.
2. AI Everywhere: We learned how to connect vSphere workloads to Vertex AI Agents.
3. Storage Freedom: NetApp Volumes and Filestore integration meant we finally stopped wasting CPU just to get disk space.
4. Global Reach: New nodes in Doha, Milan, and mixed clusters everywhere.

My Personal Take

The transition away from license-included nodes was scary at first, but it offers more control for large enterprises. Google’s commitment to the platform hasn’t wavered—in fact, the integration with native GCP services (VPC, IAM, GKE) is tighter than ever.

Summary

Thank you for reading wojcieh.net in 2025. Here is to a virtualized (and containerized) 2026!