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VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service 3.6: Making Enterprise Kubernetes Safer, More Flexible, and Easier to Operate As Kubernetes adoption matures inside the enterprise, the challenges platform teams face have shifted. Standing up clusters is no longer the challenge. The real work begins after day one: upgrading cl...

🆕 vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) 3.6 is now available! 🥳

🧠 Blog: blogs.vmware.com/cloud-founda...

📒 RN: techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

⚙️ VKS API Reference developer.broadcom.com/xapis/vmware...

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Extreme Performance Series 2026: Using vTopology in VCF 9 Learn how using the virtual topology or vtopology feature in VMware Cloud Foundation can quickly solve performance issues with NUMA config.

🏁🏎️ The VMware Extreme Performance Series is back for 2026!

These are great technical deep dives from the #VCF9 Perf Engineering team in helping you drive maximum performance for your VMware environments! Definitely 🔖 and follow along!

blogs.vmware.com/cloud-founda...

Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Storage was issued by Broadcom to Martin Meinhardt. Certification validates a candidate’s ability to design, configure, manage, and troubleshoot advanced storage capabilities in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments. This certification is intended...

Next achievement unlocked:
Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Storage
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[🆕] - Cross vCenter vMotion workloads from vSphere 7.0 to vSphere 9.0 williamlam.com/2026/02/cros...

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Release v1.6.1 · AsBuiltReport/AsBuiltReport.Core [1.6.1] - 2026-02-09 Added Add Sinhala (si-LK) language support with translation files Add Tamil (ta-IN) language support with translation files Add culture mappings for si-LK, ta-IN, ta-LK, ta-SG...

[New Release] AsBuiltReport.Core v1.6.1! Check out what's new! https://github.com/AsBuiltReport/AsBuiltReport.Core/releases/tag/v1.6.1 #AsBuiltReport #PowerShell

Memory Prices Reach “Shocking” Levels as Manufacturers Are Now Quoting a Whopping 125% Premium, Turning DRAM Into a Full-Blown Seller’s Market Memory contract pricing is rising at a rate never seen before, and according to a new report, QoQ quotations have almost doubled.

😞 Looks like DRAM prices are expected to double again this quarter alone!

wccftech.com/memory-price...

Release v1.6.0 release · AsBuiltReport/AsBuiltReport.Core [1.6.0] - 2026-02-06 Added New TokenParameters hashtable parameter for New-AsBuiltReport command to support vendor-specific token authentication parameters Localization support for token parameter...

[New Release] AsBuiltReport.Core v1.6.0! Check out what's new! https://github.com/AsBuiltReport/AsBuiltReport.Core/releases/tag/v1.6.0 #AsBuiltReport #PowerShell

👍 Nice article from William Arroyo on Building Windows Containers 🪟📦 to run on vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) blog.warroyo.com/windows-vks

[🆕] - Quick Tip - No space left on device when upgrading VCF Operations using VCF Operations Fleet Manager to VCF 9.0.2 williamlam.com/2026/01/quic...

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[🆕] - Quick Tip - NSX Edge fails DNS pre-check as part of VCF 9.0.2 Upgrade williamlam.com/2026/01/quic...

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Excellent resource for all things #VCF9 NVMe Tiering capability with the launch of the new Memory Tiering Resource Hub blogs.vmware.com/cloud-founda...

📢 🆕 VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.2 (patch) is now generally available! Some nice enhancements, especially env w/1GbE Mgmt Network for VCF Import 🥳

📒 RN: techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

💿 DL: support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/pr...

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👌Very nice PowerCLI script from my colleague that temporarily allows a vSphere Cluster w/heterogeneous hardware to leverage vSphere Update Manager (VUM) to upgrade to vSphere 9.0 and then perform vLCM Transition!

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knowledge.broadcom.com/external/art...

Increasing VCF Installer & SDDC Manager Timeout for NSX Deployment For resource constrained environments, deploying VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) can take longer, especially when deploying on top of a Nested ESXi configuration. However, the VCF Installer does prov…

[UPDATED] - Increasing VCF Installer & SDDC Manager Timeout for NSX Deployment williamlam.com/2025/12/incr...

☝️Now includes both NSX Manager & NSX Edge Deployment timeout ⏳

[🆕] - Quick Tip - Reset vCenter Server from previously managed VCF Operations for VCF Single Sign-On (SSO) williamlam.com/2026/01/quic...

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JFYI - If VC was configured w/VCF SSO AND you lose VCF Ops instance, when you re-deploy & setup VCF SSO again, need to clear out VCF Ops ID from VC because it thinks its managed by "old" Ops. See knowledge.broadcom.com/external/art... for steps

How do I know this ... yea that was my weekend 😅

Increasing VCF Installer & SDDC Manager Timeout for NSX Deployment For resource constrained environments, deploying VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) can take longer, especially when deploying on top of a Nested ESXi configuration. However, the VCF Installer does prov…

[🆕] - Increasing VCF Installer & SDDC Manager Timeout for NSX Deployment williamlam.com/2025/12/incr...

👆Few useful parameters to update for resource constrained environments

#VCF9

📢 vSphere 8.0 Update 3h is now available!

Upgrade from VC 7.0u3w ✅
Upgrade to 9.0.x ❌

📒 Release Notes:

🔸VC techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

🔹ESX techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

[🆕] - Dynamically Rebalance or Evacuate VKS Control Plane / Worker Nodes across vSphere Zones in VCF 9.0 williamlam.com/2025/12/dyna...

👌Nice enhancements to vSphere Zones in #VCF9

[🆕] - Quick Tip - Downloading VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Consumption CLI for Air-Gapped Environments williamlam.com/2025/12/quic...

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[🆕] - VCF 9.0 Fleet Latency Diagram williamlam.com/2025/12/vcf-...

🔥 #VCF9 Diagram!

🥳 VMUG #VCF9 Licensing & Download Token Creation for VMUG Advantage + VCP-VCF Certification looks to be LIVE now!

1️⃣ Login to support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/al...
2️⃣ You'll auth to support.broadcom
3️⃣ Go back to support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/al... access license entitlement / token generation

VCF Automation 9.0 Networking Deep Dive When talking to customers that are adopting VCF 9 with VCF Automation I realized there is confusion on how the networking should be set up especially related to the new concepts such as supervisor,…

Nice post from Tomas Fojta on #VCF9 Automation Networking Deep Dive 🧠🌐

fojta.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/v...

The true cost of Kubernetes release support for Platform Engineers Compare the true cost and operational trade-offs of Kubernetes extended support fees from hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure) versus the longer, predictable maintenance cycles of VMware VCF and other enter...

👇The CNCF 14-Month K8s Support Lifecycle is no joke, blink of an eye and you're out of support, if you're not keeping up!

The true cost of Kubernetes release support for Platform Engineers platformengineering.org/blog/the-tru...

[🆕] - Quick Tip - Using VCF CLI to login to vSphere Supervisor when configured with VCF Automation williamlam.com/2025/12/quic...

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[🆕] - Import vCenter Server with Single ESX Host as new VCF Workload Domain? williamlam.com/2025/12/impo...

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[🆕] - Automating the Reporting of VCF Workload Domain Import Pre-Check Validations williamlam.com/2025/12/auto...

☝️This can be used to remotely pre-check bunch of vCenter/NSX before attempting VCF import to take care of requirements to ensure success!

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Enabling new vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) Cluster Management for VCF Automation (VCFA) As of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0.1, users can now manage the full lifecycle of their vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) Clusters, including backup and restore, using the new vSphere Kubernetes…

[🆕] - Enabling new vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) Cluster Management for VCF Automation (VCFA) williamlam.com/2025/11/enab...

👆Digging the new VKSM service that is now natively within VCFA for managing VKS Clusters at scale! Had some time before🌴 to deploy in my lab ✅

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[New Release] AsBuiltReport.Core v1.5.1! Check out what's new! https://github.com/AsBuiltReport/AsBuiltReport.Core/releases/tag/v1.5.1 #AsBuiltReport #PowerShell

Deploying VCF 9.0 on a single ESXi host? By default, the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 Installer requires a minimum of 3 ESXi hosts when you select vSAN (OSA or ESA) for storage or 2 ESXi hosts when you choose to use external storage …

JFYI - To deploy VCF 9.0.1 onto a single or dual physical ESX host, the required override flag has changed.

Please see williamlam.com/2025/06/depl... for the updated details, remember this is for Lab/PoC purposes and not for production 😅