Initial Triage Guide for VMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services
Broadcom, Thursday, October 8th, 2026
A step-by-step triage guide for isolating whether VCF Private AI Services problems come from infrastructure or the AI layer.
Broadcom notes that most bugs reported in production VMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services deployments trace back to platform resource limits, missing infrastructure dependencies or network misconfiguration rather than the models themselves.
Its triage guide lists prerequisites including CLI access with kubectl and the VCF CLI, vSphere Client admin rights and kubectl access to both the Supervisor and VKS guest clusters.
It then walks through locating the Supervisor control plane address, creating a VCF CLI context and switching to the target namespace, so infrastructure issues can be ruled out before hours of model-level debugging.