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Hybrid platform architecture without competing control planes.

Coordinate identity, governance, networking, observability, lifecycle, automation, and recovery across platforms that remain different.

Start with the operating model
Choose your pathway

Looking for VMware-specific guidance? Visit the VMware / Broadcom hub for platform choices, upgrades, NSX, storage, operations, and Private AI. Continue below for architecture across VMware, Azure, and other platforms.

Choose the decision in front of you

Start with ownership, workload intent, or resilience. Each pathway leads to architecture guidance you can use in a real design review.

OPERATING MODEL

Coordinate platforms without blurring ownership

Define shared intent across private cloud, public cloud, networking, governance, observability, and automation while native control planes remain authoritative.

Build the operating model ↓

PLATFORM CHOICE

Translate workload intent before choosing technology

Identify what each workload actually requires, then choose the right retention, migration, replatforming, or modernization path.

Compare and translate ↓

GOVERNANCE AND RECOVERY

Control fragmentation and prove resilience

Make identity, evidence, dependencies, failure boundaries, and recovery explicit before another platform increases complexity.

Govern and recover ↓

Hybrid platform architecture guides

Six starting points for operating models, platform choices, translation, governance, and recovery.

WHOLE-SYSTEM OPERATING MODEL

A giant robot represents a hybrid enterprise: VCF forms the body, NSX the nervous system, Azure Local the muscles, Azure Arc the connections, and AI copilots and operations provide intelligence across data centers, edge, and multiple clouds.

The Hybrid Enterprise Machine

See how VCF, NSX, Azure Local, Azure Arc, and AI operations can share enterprise intent while preserving native control-plane authority.

Read the operating model →

MICROSOFT AND VMWARE

Architects in a forge combine Microsoft and VMware components into a custom hybrid platform spanning compute, networking, identity, security, operations, and automation.

Build Microsoft and VMware to Operate as One

Connect VCF execution with Microsoft identity, governance, security, and observability through explicit contracts for ownership, telemetry, automation, and recovery.

Read the integration guide →

PLATFORM DECISION FRAMEWORK

Introductory visual for What Should Replace VMware in 2026? An Enterprise Decision Framework Beyond Hypervisor.

What Should Replace VMware in 2026?

Evaluate retention, rehosting, modernization, and platform alternatives using workload fit, support, operating cost, resilience, skills, and exit criteria.

Read the decision framework →

ARCHITECTURE TRANSLATION

A translation-bureau metaphor places VMware constructs and Microsoft cloud services on opposite sides of an architecture-mapping engine for identity, security, networking, policy, and management.

Translate VCF Architecture into Azure

Translate workload intent into Azure governance, identity, networking, data, operations, and the right migration lane instead of chasing feature matches.

Read the translation guide →

MULTICLOUD GOVERNANCE

Diagram illustrating Control-Plane Sprawl at a Glance for Multi-Cloud Is Becoming Multi-Control-Plane.

Avoid Multi-Control-Plane Fragmentation

Build a shared governance spine across clouds without flattening their identities, policy engines, resource hierarchies, and lifecycle models.

Read the governance guide →

RESILIENCE DECISION BRIEF

Introductory visual for The Multicloud Resilience Myth.

When a Second Cloud Reduces or Multiplies Risk

Test whether a second cloud creates an independent recovery path or simply adds cost, dependencies, skills, and operational fragmentation.

Read the resilience brief →

Design the dependencies between hybrid platforms

Use these guides to make shared services, migration boundaries, trust, segmentation, and recovery dependencies explicit across VCF, Azure, Kubernetes, and edge environments.

Technical platform guides

Use these hands-on references when architecture decisions turn into platform implementation and troubleshooting.

NETWORK TROUBLESHOOTING

Diagram showing Traceflow lets you inject and trace synthetic packets through the NSX-T fabric, visualizing every hop - distributed firewall, logical switches, Tier-0/1 routers, edge nodes - and highlighting where packets are delivered or...

NSX-T Traceflow and Port Mirroring Troubleshooting Guide

Choose between synthetic path validation and live packet capture when diagnosing policy, routing, loss, or latency.

Open the NSX-T guide →

HCI OPERATIONS

Illustration representing Nutanix Node and CVM.

Nutanix CVM Architecture and Troubleshooting Guide

Understand CVM architecture, core services, sizing factors, operational commands, resilience, and troubleshooting.

Open the Nutanix CVM guide →

Turn the architecture into an operating model.

Start with the whole-system view, then follow the pathway that matches your current decision. The goal is a hybrid platform with clear boundaries, named owners, traceable controls, and a recovery path your teams can test.

Read the Hybrid Enterprise Machine