[🆕] - Playing with Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) in vSphere 9.1 using an ASUS NUC williamlam.com/2026/08/play... ☝️Found good use of a NUC that I wasn't using 😎 #VCF91

Happy Friday! 🥳 It also means some #FridayLabTime 🧑‍💻 #VCF91

[🆕] - Quick Tip: Automating ESX System Resource Pool Workaround Prior to 8.0 Update 3g williamlam.com/2026/08/quic... Decade+ of using vSphere APIs has certainly paid dividends, especially when a workaround requires SSH & I know there's an API that can help! 😁

Happy to share Duncan Epping & I have been asked to join Ask Us Anything: Community Meet-Up @ VMware Explore 🙌 Had blast last year & always enjoy engaging w/VMware community, whether its tech, career or what we do for fun. Stop by! 🎯 Community Lounge in Hub 🗓️ Mon Aug 31 🕑 2-3pm

[🆕] - Quick Tip: Automating PAK Upload & Installation for VCF Operations williamlam.com/2026/08/quic... ☝️Not sure why it took me this long to look into this 😅 Guess updates were a lot less frequent, where it wasn't as annoying using the UI every so often 😆 #VCF91

v1.0.2 of VCF Infrastructure Service (VIS) Appliance is now available github.com/lamw/vcf-inf... which includes number of enhancements including offline update Check out docs lamw.github.io/vcf-infrastr... for more details, especially how this can be used in #VCF91 Lab/PoC env

🤯 More details www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/... about recent OpenAI attack on Hugging Face www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... 😮 In case that wasn't bad enough, Anthropic just found out its model had broken into 3 organizations www.forbes.com/sites/siladi... This is the new norm for Infra defenders ...

New details in the OpenAI Hugging Face hack show how far agents will go: 'It's now remarkably easy'

OpenAI's rogue models used publicly exposed credentials across "four accounts on four services" to help facilitate the Hugging Face breach.

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[🆕] - Password, Certificate & Backup Management UI/API for VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9.1 williamlam.com/2026/08/pass... #VCF91 #VVF91

📣 vSphere 8.0 Update 2f has just been released, addresses several CVEs 📔 Release Notes: 🔸vCenter techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware... 🔹ESX techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

[RE-PUBLISHED] - VCF 9.1 - VCF Instance & Fleet Consolidation/Relocation williamlam.com/2026/07/vcf-... 🆕 🔸Detailed info for each scenario 🔹Includes instructions w/docs + screenshots 🔸Summarized table for all supported scenarios

[🆕] - Quick Tip: Reducing High CPU Utilization on NSX due to slow Entropy from AMD Zen4/5 CPUs williamlam.com/2026/07/quic... 🙏 Always learning new things from our VMware Community, here's another to add to your #VCF Homelab for those using AMD Ryzen processors

Quick Tip: Reducing High CPU Utilization on NSX due to slow Entropy from AMD Zen4/5 CPUs

AMD Zen4/Zen5 processors have been known to have slower entropy generation, which can lead to higher CPU utilization for workloads that depend on random number generation. I recently learned from a…

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Last year, 1:1 Design & Architect @VMwareExplore Workshops were extremely popular, had more demand than slots 😅 More slots added this year, check w/account team 🆕 This year, we're bringing 1:1 workshops to 1:many format AND you can register in Catalog #AW1835LV or #AW1836LV

😩 Ugh ... It used to be so easy to quickly unfollow Google Chat thread by clicking on the 3 dots in summary view ... now you need to click into thread to perform I still miss Slack

😮 Is VMware Explore really just a month-ish away! 😅 🏨 Hotel ✅ ✈️ Flight ✅ 📊 Presentations 🤷 I also will have session at our Customer Technical Advisory Board (CTAB), hope to see some of you there!

😱 Just had someone ask me a question about issue they're running into with ESXi 6.7 ... At least it wasn't ESXi 6.5 or 5.5, even though I know there's still handfl of them out there running production still 😅

📢 🆕 EPs for VCF/VVF 9.x addressing various CVEs, see 📔 🔸vCenter (9.1.0.0300) techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware... 🔹vCenter (9.0.2.0100) techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware... 🔸ESX (9.0.2.0100) techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware... 🔹SDDC Manager (9.0.2.0100) techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

📣 vSphere 8.0 Update 3K has just been released, addresses various CVE. This is also back-in-time release, which means there is currently NOT a #VCF91 release for upgrade, future 9.1.x will allow for this 📔 RN 🔸vCenter techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware... 🔹ESX techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

VCF Inspector Fling: A Standalone Diagnostic and Health Tool for VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 blogs.vmware.com/cloud-founda... 👆Slick 🆕 #VCF91 Fling

Introducing the VCF Inspector Fling: A Standalone Diagnostic and Health Tool for VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1

Introducing VCF Inspector: a standalone, zero-footprint diagnostic tool for VCF 9.1 and VCF Management Services. Available now as a free download on VMware Flings.

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Doing some #VCF91 testing this morning, re-deploying several physical ESX hosts takes <5min (installed & configured), beauty of Automation ⚙️🙌 williamlam.com/2025/07/cust...

[🆕] - VCF 9.1 - Quick Tip: Easily Generate VCF SSO API Tokens using VCF Component UI williamlam.com/2026/07/vcf-... ❤️ How easy it is to create a new VCF SSO API Token directly in each component UI, even easier to consume for PowerCLI users! #VCF91

[🆕] - VCF 9.1 - Deploying the VCF License Server Directly to an ESX Host williamlam.com/2026/07/vcf-... #VCF91

[🆕] - vSphere Back-in-Time Support for Upgrade, Converge and Import williamlam.com/2026/07/vcf-... #VCF91

VMware Explore Scheduler Builder 🗓️ is now LIVE! Lots of great technical deep dives 🧠 this year, make sure to reserve your spot as some will fill up #VCF91 "Design & Architect" Breakout Series is a good one to check out event.vmware.com/flow/vmware/... if you're looking for some ideas.

Deploying just vCenter/ESX, VCF Ops & License Server 9.1) is FULLY supported, which I've covered in my Demystifying Supported Upgrade Paths to #VCF91 williamlam.com/2026/05/vcf-... Tech Docs has just been updated to include this flow w/o using VCF Installer techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

VCF 9.1 - Demystifying Supported Upgrade Paths to 9.1

The rapid advancement of frontier AI capabilities, including recent developments from Anthropic Mythos, keeping software and infrastructure up to date has become a critical priority for many IT org…

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[🆕] - VCF Infrastructure Services (VIS) Appliance for VCF 9.1 Lab/PoC williamlam.com/2026/07/vcf-... 🥳 Excited to finally share my personal AI 🧠🤖💻 project VIS which I had started back in May using OpenAI Codex #VCF91

[🆕] - Quick Tip - Automatically Generate VCF Download Tool Commands with Express Patches for VCF 9.0.2 and 9.1.0 williamlam.com/2026/07/quic... ☝️Planned enhancement to VCFDT, but in meanwhile, small script (with help from AI) to provide same experience as VCF Installer UI #VCF91

[🆕] - VCF 9.1 - Automating VCF Backup Scheduling with the Fleet LCM API williamlam.com/2026/07/vcf-... 👆Includes working PowerShell script for #VCF91 & also timely a link to colleague Brian's post on doing same for #VVF91

VMware Explore Meeting Request System (Rainfocus) has just been opened up! If you'd like to have 1:1 discussions on #VCF91 Product, Architecture/design or anything else, let your account team know as these slots will fill up fast! 🗓️ I've already gotten few meetings already 😅

[🆕] - VCF 9.1 - July Express Patch is more than Security Fixes williamlam.com/2026/07/vcf-... 👆🥳 Successfully upgraded my lab earlier this week! Lots of good fixes / UI enhancements in addition to security for those upgrading or deploying #VCF91

👏 Nice blog on which Load Balancer to choose from when using vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) AND entitlements required for each, especially the included ones as part of #VVF & #VCF which is quite handy! blogs.vmware.com/cloud-founda... #VCF91