For Lab purposes, single node Avi Load Balancer can help w/resources with both #VCF9 & #VCF91 using same workaround williamlam.com/2025/07/sing... Just learned we now officially "support" single node deployment for small or edge environments as of v31.2.1 👏 techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

Single Node VMware Avi Load Balancer with VCF 9.0 & VCF 9.1

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 continues to support one of the most popular and powerful load balancer, VMware Avi Load Balancer. When you deploy a new VMware Avi Load Balancer within a given VC…

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📣 Security Services Platform 5.2 is now GA! With the recent Frontier AI Model attacks ... SSP is no longer nice to have, many orgs have added to their toolset to protect their infra. Lots of 🆕 capabilities, like new 2-Node form factor! 👌 📔 techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware... #VCF91

[🆕] - Quick Tip: Selective ESX Host Patching in VCF 9.1 williamlam.com/2026/08/quic... #VCF91

[🆕] VCF 9.1 - Quick Tip: Optimized Workflow for Configuring Distributed Transit Gateway (DTGW) w/NSX Virtual Network Appliance (VNA) williamlam.com/2026/08/vcf-... 🙌 Definitely apperciate enhancement in #VCF91 not having to go to NSX to complete connectivity configs, vSphere UI FTW!

[🆕] - 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

📣 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...

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

[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

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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📣 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...

📢 🆕 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...

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

[🆕] - 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 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

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

[🆕] - VCF 9.1 - VCF Instance & Fleet Consolidation/Relocation williamlam.com/2026/07/vcf-... #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

[🆕] - 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

AI is changing the threat landscape, but your defense can evolve too. Move beyond manual patching and build an automated, architectural security posture Tanzu Platform. Don't let your infrastructure become a liability. Learn more: https://brcm.tech/4vAB44d #Security#AI

How to Prepare for the World of AI Driven Exploits

Earlier this month, Broadcom published findings from our frontier model research initiative examining what frontier AI models can do when applied to vulnerability discovery and exploitation. The concl...

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🆕 July Express Patches have just been released w/various security & product fixes. Time to start updating my #VCF91 lab 😁 🔸vCenter/ESX/NSX/vSAN 9.1.0.0200 🔹SDDC Manager 9.1.0.0400 🔸VCF Operations + Other 9.1.0.0400 🔹VCF Automation 9.1.0.0200 📒 techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

One very welcome enhancement with latest #VCF91 Installer (9.1.0.0400) is UI support for more flexible IP Allocation for BOTH VCF Management Services (VCFMS) & VCF Automation (VCFA) using IP Lists w/IP Exclusions, no need to use API for this mode now! Also applies to Upgrades! 🥳

👌Nice WP w/migration methodology/tooling for those looking to move from 3rd Party/Generic k8s into vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) offer as part of #VCF91 Definitely seeing increase in demand, not just modern / AI, but also COTS delivered as containers www.vmware.com/docs/vmw-kub...

📢 #VCF91 Tech Docs was just refreshed this morning One important update is the the full Shutdown / Startup sequence is now available for both Management & Workload Domain👇 🔋 Startup Order techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware... 🪫 Shutdown Order techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware...

📢 Nice update on Broadcom Compatibility Guide (BCG) listing Skylake-SP CPU support for ESX 9.0/9.1 (SW support only) w/o needing RPQ/TQ 🙌 All related KBs will be updated shortly compatibilityguide.broadcom.com/search?progr... ⚠️ Customers still need to work w/OEM to get HW/FW and BIOS support

🆒 Amazon joins #VCF91 🎉 with support for running on Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) aws.amazon.com/blogs/migrat...

Announcing support for VCF 9.0 and 9.1 on Amazon EVS | Amazon Web Services

We’re excited to share that VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 and 9.1 are now available on Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS), giving you complete control over your VCF installation. Our focus with A...

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[🆕] - VCF 9.1 - Understanding VCF Express Patches williamlam.com/2026/07/vcf-... #VCF91

VCF 9.1 - Understanding VCF Express Patches

AI has fundamentally changed the software industry through its ability to discover software vulnerabilities at an unprecedented pace. This has driven software vendors to adopt faster release cadenc…

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As a personal user of Codex, this is some pretty dope news! 👏 Hope it'll also help bring down consumer costs 😅 openai.com/index/openai...

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip

OpenAI and Broadcom introduce Jalapeño, a custom AI chip built for LLM inference to improve performance, efficiency, and scale across AI systems.

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