Paul Bryant • 8/5/2026

VCF 9.1 Private AI Security: How NSX and vDefend Protect Models, Data, and GPU Workloads

This article details the security architecture for Private AI in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, emphasizing that it's not a single product but a fabric integrating VCF Private AI Services, NSX networking, and vDefend for lateral security. It covers five operational planes—experience/inference, model/runtime, data/retrieval, infrastructure/GPU, and identity/observability—and stresses designing model zones, RAG data paths, and tenant boundaries before scaling AI. The article also cautions that compliance indicators are visual storytelling, not proof, requiring implemented controls and testing.

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