AI-Ready Private Cloud With Cisco and VMware
Broadcom, Tuesday, September 8th, 2026
An AI-ready private cloud is not a private cloud with GPUs added; the networking assumptions change.
This post argues that an AI-ready private cloud is not simply a private cloud with GPUs added, because AI workloads change data center traffic patterns fundamentally, shifting the load from north-south to east-west at volumes conventional designs were not built for.
It covers VCF 9.1's distributed Transit Gateway, unified EVPN control planes paired with Cisco Nexus One fabric, and consumption models supporting self-service infrastructure.
For teams planning AI capacity on existing private cloud, the networking analysis is the part that most often gets discovered too late.