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Meet MTAT: Your Zero-Friction Path to Memory Tiering in VMware Cloud Foundation 9

Broadcom, Friday, July 31st, 2026

The Memory Tiering Assessment Tool v3.0 helps VCF 9 customers plan memory tiering before deploying it.

Memory tiering has been gaining momentum in the VMware Cloud Foundation ecosystem, and the obvious next question is how to plan for it in a specific environment.

Broadcom released version 3.0 of the Memory Tiering Assessment Tool to answer that. MTAT is a workload planning tool that profiles actual memory access patterns to estimate what tiering would deliver before any configuration change is made.

The post explains how to run an assessment and interpret the output. It is aimed at VCF 9 customers weighing whether memory tiering is worth the operational change.

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