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[🆕] - MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Configuring vSphere Supervisor with NSX VPC Networking williamlam.com/2025/08/ms-a...

#VCF9

Nice VCF Automation Video Series 📺🧠from Maher youtube.com/playlist?lis... you'll definitely want to check out!

Especially, if you've been following along my #VCF9 lab mini-series including VCFA williamlam.com/2025/08/ms-a...

🚀 Interested in maximizing performance for your workloads running on the latest vSphere 9.0 platform!? Check out the popular performance whitepaper from our Performance Engineering team 📑

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[🆕] - MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Configuring External IdP for Multiple VCF Automation Organizations williamlam.com/2025/08/ms-a...

#VCF9

[🆕] - How to deploy VVF/VCF 9.0 using VMUG Advantage & VCP-VCF Certification Entitlement williamlam.com/2025/07/how-...

☝️Quick workaround for our VMUG Advantage members w/VCP-VCF certification to start deploying VCF9 right now! Longer term solution actively being worked on 🙏

GitHub - tsugliani/doc-vcf-offlinedepot: VCF 9 Offline Depot setup documentation VCF 9 Offline Depot setup documentation. Contribute to tsugliani/doc-vcf-offlinedepot development by creating an account on GitHub.

Awesome guide from my buddy Timo Sugliani on setting up both #VCF9 Offline Depot + #vSphere9 UMDS Offline Depot for air-gapped labs 😎

I know folks have asked about UMDS Offline Depot, new VCF Download Tool includes "umds" function 🧠

github.com/tsugliani/do...

[🆕] Quick Tip - Establish trust between VCF 9.0 Installer and VCF Offline Depot w/self-sign TLS certificate williamlam.com/2025/08/quic...

#VCF9

Latest Data Services Manager (DSM) 9.0 also running in my #VCF9 setup! #NeedDarkMode

In addition to Postgres & MySQL Databases, you can also now deploy Microsoft SQL Server (Tech Preview)! 🙌

Nice post from Cormac Hogan about new SQL Server feature cormachogan.com/2025/06/20/m...

[🆕] - Minimal VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 Lab Setup williamlam.com/2025/07/mini...

📜 on setting up a minimal #VCF9 😁

[🆕] - Single Node VMware Avi Load Balancer with VCF 9.0 williamlam.com/2025/07/sing...

#VCF9

[🆕] - Quick Tip - VCF 9.0 Versioning Scheme williamlam.com/2025/07/quic...

#VCF9

[🆕] - Quick Tip - Disable ESX Live Patching enforcement to enable vSphere Supervisor Service williamlam.com/2025/07/quic...

#VCF9

In #VCF9 the vSphere Supervisor Service updates are now decoupled from vCenter updates! 👌

Just updated my vSphere Supervisor to newest patch 9.0.0.0100 in just few clicks 🙌

Subscribe to vSphere Supervisor CL 📚 using:
wp-content.vmware.com/supervisor/v...

[🆕] - Applying 1st ESX Live Patch using VCF 9.0 Operations williamlam.com/2025/07/appl...

⚡🩹 faster than ⌨️ blogging 😅

#VCF9

VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Ushers In New Support Model and Release Cadence In order to provide longer support windows and more flexibility with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) updates, we’re making some changes to the VCF support model and release cadence. Previous versions of...

#VCF9 introduces a new and more flexible support model and release cadence, definitely give this one a read!

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

📣 🆕 ESXi 9.x (⚡ live patchable), 8.x & 7.x is now available!👇

🔹 9.0.0.1
📒 techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

🔸 8.0u3f
📒 techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

🔹 8.0u2e
📒 techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

🔸 7.0u3w
📒 techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

💡ESXi Host Commissioning in #VCF9 can now be performed directly in the vSphere UI, however it is DEFINITELY not intuitive to locate ...

VCF Operations does provide a direct link, but still not obvious

Go to Global Inventory Lists->Hosts 😅

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Elevates the Developer Experience with Improved Documentation With the release of VCF 9.0, we’ve taken a significant leap toward improving the developer experience. All key assets are easy to discove.

🙌 Awesome summary of all the #VCF9 enhancements improving Developer Experience — for both our Admins and Devs! 🚀

🆕 VCF SDKs ⚙️
🆕 VCF Developer Resources 🧑‍💻
🆕 VCF API Portal 📖

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

VPC Distributed Network Connectivity - No NSX Edge VMs Related Posts: A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) uses two main building blocks: Every VPC owns its own VPC gateway, which routes packets between its subnets. Inside one project, a Transit Gateway links al...

VPC Distributed Network Connectivity – No NSX Edge VMs via Francois Tallet

@vmware.bsky.social #VCF9 #SDDC #NSX9 #SDN

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Announcing the General Availability of Holodeck 9.0 Deploy VCF Nested Labs with Holodeck

Announcing the General Availability of VMware Holodeck 9.0 dy.si/TQPRS

VMware Virtual Private Cloud in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0: A New Era of Private Cloud Networking Key Points: An exciting evolution is underway in private cloud infrastructure, centering on delivering a more agile, secure, and user-centric experience. The latest advancements in VMware Cloud Founda...

VMware Virtual Private Cloud in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0: A New Era of Private Cloud Networking
blogs.vmware.com/cloud-founda...

Ultimate Lab Resource for VCF 9.0 Since the release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, you may have seen a few blogs from me 😅 To help folks digest all the resources for deploying and running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 in…

[🆕] - Ultimate Lab Resource for VCF 9.0 williamlam.com/2025/06/ulti...

🤞Final post from me! Tries to sum up all the countless hours, I've spent with #VCF9 in the lab 😅

Still have backlog of things to share, but for now, I need a break!

k apply -f pto.yaml 🌴😎🤙

GitHub - KeithRichardLee/Tanzu-GenAI-Platform-installer: A powershell script that automates the install of VMware Tanzu Platform, a private PaaS which includes GenAI capabilities, on VMware vSphere wi... A powershell script that automates the install of VMware Tanzu Platform, a private PaaS which includes GenAI capabilities, on VMware vSphere with minimal resource requirements. - KeithRichardLee/Ta...

I've been building Automated VMware Lab Deployment scripts for almost decade now, just one of the many ways to learn/explore 🧠

Really cool to see @keithlee.bsky.social adapt my PKS script from 2018 & build new Tanzu GenAI Platform Installer Lab 👏

github.com/KeithRichard...

Introducing VCF PowerCLI 9.0 PowerCLI has long established itself as a trusted and widely adopted automation tool across VMware environments. It remains one of the most preferred tools among our customers, and its popularity is r...

💪 Lots of Automation awesomeness for #VCF9

Highly recommend a read and 🕵️🔎 ... YUP!

We finally have public vSphere Global Permission API, which you can consume through PowerCLI! 🙌

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

🚀 Entdecke die Zukunft der private Cloud mit
VMware (@vmware.bsky.social) Cloud Foundation 9.0! 🌐 Erfahre mehr über die neuesten Innovationen, verbesserte Sicherheit und KI-Readyness in meinem neuen Blogpost zum Release von VCF 9.0. #VMware #vExpert #VCF #CloudComputing... dy.si/DKVZR92

Now there's an official KB knowledge.broadcom.com/external/art...

[🆕] - NVMe Tiering with Nested Virtualization in VCF 9.0 williamlam.com/2025/06/nvme...

#VCF9

[🆕] - Is my NIC supported with Enhanced Data Path (EDP) with VCF 9.0 williamlam.com/2025/06/is-m...

#VCF9

The new VCF Download Tool (VCFDT) techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware... makes it SUPER easy to setup VCF Offline Depot (airgap/bandwidth/latency/common repo) including all manifest files for deploying either #VVF9 or #VCF9

While you're waiting for the #VCF9 bits to download, this is the perfect time to review the release notes! Good to familiarize yourself with what's new, known issues depreciation/feature removal and/or transitions

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