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SDDC Consultant & Technical Leader Dell HCI @ SVA GmbH Germany // #VCIX-DCV & #vExpert & #BroadcomKnight // #SDDC #VCF #NSX & #HCI #VxRail #vSAN // opinions r my own // think different!
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Martin @makeitwork.bsky.social · Jun 4
Only one day after I have been accepted to the VMware #vExpert #VCF subprogram, I have been knighted by Broadcom! 🎉

Definitely a huge thank you to Richard Carlson, Michael Rankin, Curtis Gunderson and the Knights program team for rewarding me with the #Broadcom #Knights award! 🙏
Broadcom Partner Certification - Broadcom Software Knight - vSphere was issued by Broadcom to Martin Meinhardt.
Broadcom Software Knights are Partner Technical Champions who consistently demonstrate a high level of both Sales and Technical expertise with one or more of Broadcom Software’s products. The Knight d...
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[🆕] - 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 ✅

#VCF9
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…
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November 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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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
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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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 😅
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 …
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November 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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👌KB to bookmark for vSphere CPU Support Deprecation & Discontinuation knowledge.broadcom.com/external/art...

👉Intel KB for CPU EOL www.intel.com/content/www/...

Remember, OEMs own HW support, not Broadcom. Plan accordingly
Skylake (Intel EOS 12/2023) ❌ 9.0
Cascade Lake (Intel EOS 06/2025) ⚠️ 9.0
CPU Support Deprecation and Discontinuation In VCF Releases
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November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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LOTS of VCF Ecosystem updates ...

🆕 AI ReadyNodes w/Supermicro as 1st OEM
🆕 ODM ReadyNodes Self-Certification w/OVHcloud
🆕 Edge Eco Expansion w/SNUC
🆕 Support for EVPN including Cisco Nexus One & SONiC
🆕 K8s AI Conformant Platform w/VKS

www.broadcom.com/company/news...
Broadcom Inc. | Connecting Everything
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November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The VMware Explore on Tour in Frankfurt this week was a blast and a big success. It was great to see a well attended venue with so many familiar faces in my home town and it was intriguing to hear all about the packed roadmap including the newest innovations for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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The brand new VCAP exam has only been available for three days, but I just gave it a try and thankfully passed it right away.
Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Operations was issued by Broadcom to Martin Meinhardt.
The VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VCAP Administrator Operations certification validates the expertise required to monitor, manage, and optimize VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments fo...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Did you know that SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH is one of four Signature Sponsors of the VMware Explore on Tour in Frankfurt?
 
Let’s shape the future of IT - together with SVA. See you next week in Frankfurt!
 
#Broadcom #VMware #VMwareExplore #ExploreonTour #VCF9
#SVAGmbH #BroadcomKnights
November 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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🔥🗞️ Super slick PowerCLI script for deploying #VCF9 Edge using a Single-Node vSphere Supervisor w/ArgoCD at SCALE! 👏

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

#VCF9
VCF Edge - Single-Node vSphere Supervisor with ArgoCD Automation Script
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November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Very nice post and reminder from Pete Koehler - vSAN Data Protection in VMware Cloud Foundation, the solution you already own!

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vSAN Data Protection in VMware Cloud Foundation – The Solution You Already Own
With a flurry of announcements and new capabilities offered in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, it is sometimes easy to overlook relatively new features hidden in plain sight. Protecting data in a p...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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🆕VMware Advanced Cyber Compliance offer is now available to #VCF Customers blogs.vmware.com/cloud-founda...
VMware Advanced Cyber Compliance is Now Available to VCF Customers
Following the announcement at VMware Explore earlier this year, we are now making a new Advanced Service generally available for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) customers. Starting November 3rd, VCF cus...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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New KB in adding additional principal storage types (iSCSI, NFS v4.1, and NVMe over Fabrics (FC or TCP)) with #VCF9 using the Converge/Import workflows

knowledge.broadcom.com/external/art...
Additional Principal Storage Options in VMware Cloud Foundation 9
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 supports a variety of storage types as principal storage (see Storage Models in the product documentation for more details). Typ
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November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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[🆕] - Retrieving the vSAN Cluster Shutdown VMs running Pre-Check Results using PowerCLI williamlam.com/2025/11/retr...
November 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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VERY nice uber KB for all things #VCF knowledge.broadcom.com/external/art...

🔖 This is definitely a bookmark! Cheers to support folks for putting this together 👏
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Known Issues
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October 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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📣 PSA: In case you're planning to upgrade to VCF 9.0.1, make sure to review this KB regarding permissions issue on VCF Operations Fleet Management Appliance that prevents DB from starting

knowledge.broadcom.com/external/art...
PostgreSQL Service fails to start after rebooting Fleet Management appliance post VCF Operations 9.0.1 upgrade
Symptoms After applying the 9.0.1 patch to the VCF Operations fleet management appliance, you may experience the following symptoms: The PostgreSQL service fail
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October 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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All VMware Explore 2025 on-demand breakout sessions will be available to the general public tomorrow!

Make sure to 🔖 bookmark github.com/lamw/vmware-... and get your #VCF9 learning on 🧠
GitHub - lamw/vmware-explore-2025-session-urls: VMware Explore 2025 Session URLs
VMware Explore 2025 Session URLs. Contribute to lamw/vmware-explore-2025-session-urls development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Provided feedback to our docs team to include password complexity for (auto-password generation) using VCF Installer.

See "Password creation" for details techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

Gary has nice post on retrieving generated passwords using API my-cloudy-world.com/2025/08/28/v...

#VCF9
Start a New VCF Fleet or a New VCF Instance Deployment by Using the VCF Installer Deployment Wizard
You can use the VCF Installer deployment wizard to deploy a new VCF fleet or deploy a new VCF Instance within an existing fleet.
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September 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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VCF 9.0.1 is officially GA! 🥳

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

💿DL: support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/pr...
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.1.0 Release Notes
Maintenance releases provide bug and security fixes, hardware enablement changes, such as support for servers, CPUs, devices, driver updates, guest OS support, and backward-compatible new features. Th...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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JFYI - Seeing some folks refer to VCF 9.0.1 as 9.0 Update 1, that is not correct.

9.0.1 is maintenance release for VCF

👉https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/410435/unified-vcf-product-releases-versioning.html is good resource to understand the new VCF versioning semantics going forward
September 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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[🆕] - Quick Tip - Retrieving ESXi Host Fingerprint for VCF Installer JSON deployment williamlam.com/2025/09/quic...
September 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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[🆕] - Quick Tip - Custom JSON for Deploying VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) with Custom TLS Certificates williamlam.com/2025/09/quic...
Quick Tip - Custom JSON for Deploying VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) with Custom TLS Certificates
ESXi hosts deployed with a custom CA signed TLS certificate can be consumed by either VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.x Cloud Builder or 9.x VCF Installer using a custom JSON deployment manifest. A…
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September 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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[🆕] - Automating VCF 9.0 Operations License Registration & Import for Air-Gapped Environments williamlam.com/2025/09/auto...
September 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Since this was just asked - The vSphere Concurrency Numbers for 8.x still apply to 9.0, which you can find more detail in this blog series 👇

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Extreme Performance Series 2023: vCenter Concurrency
The Extreme Performance Series is back for 2023!  The video blog series covers the highlights of recent performance work on VMware technology. In this video, Todd Muirhead talks with Ravi Soundararaja...
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September 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Nice blog post showing how to use Terraform to deploy both the #VCF9 Installer & deploying 🆕 VCF Fleet! 👍

(JFYI: Always useful to include an About page, no clue who the author is, but keep up good work!)

worker-node.com/2025/09/14/d...
Deploying VMware Cloud Foundation Instance with Terraform: Step-by-Step Guide
This blog post provides a detailed guide for deploying VCF Instance using Terraform. It covers prerequisites, installation steps for Terraform and VCF, and necessary configurations in Terraform fil…
worker-node.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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NSX-T Multi-Location Design Guide (Federation + Multisite)

Design Guide version for NSX-T 9.0 release is 1.0 done on 09/16/2025

#PrivateCloud #VMware #SDDC #VCF9 #SDN #NSX9

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NSX Multi-Location Design Guide Federation Multisite
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September 17, 2025 at 6:09 AM