As users are getting more familiar with the new Broadcom Support Portal (BSP), especially for downloading VMware software, an active entitlement is required for most downloads. Note: If you are new to Broadcom Support Portal (BSP), be sure to check out my recent blog post on tips for navigating and downloading from BSP. However, there are…
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Nested ESXi Virtual Appliances are now back under VMware Flings Community!
I know many of our internal teams (field, engineering, support, etc.), customers and partners have heavily relied on my Nested ESXi Virtual Appliances (VA) over the years which makes it seamless to deploy both VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) lab environments for learning, testing, troubleshooting, automation and development purposes. To support…
Tips for navigating and downloading from new Broadcom Support Portal
The Broadcom Support Portal (BSP) is most likely a new interface for many including myself after the planned VMware by Broadcom Day 2 Transition, which was completed on May 6th, 2024. The BSP is used for more than just support, it is the single place for managing your entitlements/licenses, software downloads, trials, security advisories, knowledge…
Quick Tip – Automating cpuUniformityHardCheckPanic configuration for ESXi Kickstart with USB
To prevent ESXi from PSOD’ing when an Intel Hybrid Consumer CPU is detected with non-uniform capabilities, a workaround can be applied to ignore the uniformity miss-match which is needed before the ESXi installer fully boots up and also after the initial reboot. For those looking to fully automate this process using ESXi Kickstart using USB…
Useful Links for VMware by Broadcom Day 2 Transition
While today, May 6th, 2024 marks the completion of the “Day 2” transition where VMware’s backend system has been migrated to Broadcom’s backend system, it may still take a few days for all the new systems to fully settle with such a large migration project. There are also some planned post-Day 2 updates that are…
Support my fundraising for Tour de Cure 2024
It has been a LONG time since I have done any serious cycling, especially with two younger kids, I no longer had the luxury of riding for hours across the beautiful trails in the bay area. With that said, I have always had an itch to get back to some riding, mostly for recreational purposes,…
Identifying vSphere with Tanzu Managed VMs
With an increasing number of customers enabling the vSphere with Tanzu capability, which is included in both VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), more and more Virtual Machines will be deployed using the more modern approach of declarative provisioning using the powerful VM Service feature. When using the vSphere UI, you can easily…
Minimum vSphere privileges to install or remove patch from ESXi
I recently got a question from our field inquiring about the minimum vSphere privileges that would be required to either install or remove a patch (VIB/Component) from an ESXi host. The customer was interested in using PowerCLI and specifically the ESXLI interface to automate the installation and removal of a VIB and wanted to create…
Using vSAN Datastore Sharing aka HCI Mesh to connect OSA with ESA is that supported?
I’ve seen a few questions around this, is it possible, or supported, to use vSAN Datastore Sharing aka HCI Mesh to connect OSA with ESA? Or of course the other way around. I can be brief about this, no it is not supported and it isn’t possible either. vSAN HCI Mesh or Datastore Sharing uses…
Quick Tip – Character Limits for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Objects
Similar to my blog post on character limits for the different types of vSphere Inventory Objects, here is a quick look on some VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Objects and their respective character limits. While looking into this topic, I was pleasantly surprised to find that some of the rename workflows in SDDC Manager UI includes…