Welcome to vArchitected – the digital blueprint of my journey through the world of cloud architecture, virtualization, and everything VMware.
I’m Mike Valido, a Staff Solution Architect at Broadcom, proudly focused on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) – and the mind behind this blog. If you’re here, you’re probably neck-deep in datacenters, SDDCs, lab builds, VCF deployment errors, or trying to understand why NSX keeps picking a fight with your plans. Good. You’re in the right place.
Why vArchitected?
This blog was born out of countless nights rebuilding labs, testing VCF use cases, dissecting exam blueprints, and solving issues that official documentation almost helped with. “vArchitected” isn’t just a name – it’s my approach: purpose-built, battle-tested, and unapologetically technical.
Whether it’s designing resilient private cloud architectures, I document it all here to help you build smarter and fail faster – so you don’t have to.
What You’ll Find Here
- Real-world VCF deployments (including the ugly errors and clever fixes)
- Exam guides and tips for VCP, VCAP, and other Broadcom certs
- Home lab builds that run like enterprise datacenters (on a NUC, if necessary)
- Deep dives into NSX, vSAN, SDDC Manager, vDefend Firewall, AVI, and VCF Automation
- WordPress on Kubernetes (because why not overcomplicate your blog?)
- Tech humor, strong opinions, and zero fluff
- Oh, and everything will have a Security Twist on it
My Promise to You
No vendor-fluff. No recycled posts. Just unfiltered, hands-on content from the field. If I’ve posted about it, I’ve lived it, broken it, and (eventually) fixed it.
Follow Along
Got questions? Feedback? Need to vent about vSphere upgrades? Reach out. I’m active on LinkedIn and always down to connect with fellow architects, engineers, and IT gladiators.
Let’s keep building – the vArchitected way.
