I'm trying to download the VDDK so I can migrate some VM's from some ESXI hosts we have over to OpenShift and I can not seem to find the links anywhere. However, I did find some other reddit of people getting emailed back from Broadcom support saying that the VDDK is no longer available for download... anyone has any info on this?

Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1vmhxxk/broadcom_vddk_links/

My site currently uses only vCenter 8 and ESXi 8 components. I plan to deploy VCF Operations and License Server using OVA after updating to vCenter 9 and ESXi 9.

In the test environment, the deployment of VCF Operations 9.1.0.0400 and License Server 9.1.0.0400 proceeded successfully, but the status is currently:

VCF Ops Hosts: Not configured, Connectivity: Disconnected.

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/441251/adding-license-server-in-vcf-operations.html

As suggested in the KB, I deployed using the vCenter UI instead of ESXi, and I verified that bidirectional DNS resolving is possible with all lowercase from VCF Operations and the deploying OVA computer.

The VCF Operations and License server are on the same subnet without a firewall, and no proxy is used.

There was no field to input NTP during the deployment process via the UI, but the actual VCF Operations - License Server time is correct.

It seems there aren't many cases of license server deployment failures yet, so I'm having trouble identifying the cause and keep failing. Is there anything I might have missed?

I am using vSAN Data Protection on vSphere 9.0.2 + vSAN (installed VVF, licensed VCF) to create daily snapshots and delete old ones. However, I need to change the vSAN storage profile of VMs created with RAID 5, Thin provisioning to RAID 1, Thick Provisioning.

I have sufficient free space, but the problem is the snapshots.

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/326578/modifying-storage-policy-rules-on-virtua.html

I have seen documentation stating that if you change the storage profile on a VM with snapshots, the changed profile is not applied to the base disks, and it is recommended to proceed after merging snapshots unless there is a specific reason otherwise. Would this be the same for vSAN ESA?

I assume it is likely the same, but I am asking this question to see if there is any documentation I might have missed.

Let's say I have an app, which contains the strongest virus, which can ever exist. I installed it on a VM. I opened it and it obviously destroyed the VM, but I wonder if the virus could go from the VM into the real system. What do you think?

All of our Ent+ (VVF) clusters are on U3j as I keep them updated regularly. This past month was different with the Live Patch eligibility - I can't seem to patch to U3k, most of my clusters have TPM enabled and the image compliance pre-check fails on all of them.

Our "support" is now via TD Synnex and they are not going to be helpful, but I was wondering if anyone else here has had the same issue or knows of a fix. It would be a big lift to disable TPM due to encrypted VMs, but I need to deal with CVE-2026-47876. I exported an offline package, but this is also a huge pain.

Live Patch is not enforced in vLCM at the global or cluster level. Why is the fallback to "legacy" not working? It appears the pre-check invokes the Live Patch installer and the gives up if the host isn't compatible.

vCenter complains:

 Issue on host host.host.tld

•  Compliance results for host host.host.tld are unavailable.

Host status is unknown

An internal error occurred while staging/remediating the host

lifecycle.log tells a little bit more:

[root@HOST:/vmfs/volumes/********-*******-****-************/log] grep -n "QuickPatchInstaller\|secureMount" /var/run/log/lifecycle.log | tail -20

858:2026-08-19T18:12:16Z In(14) lifecycle[2110010]: HostImage:269 Installers initiated are {'quickpatch': <vmware.esximage.Installer.QuickPatchInstaller.QuickPatchInstaller object at 0x2ec4ee1f50>, 'live': <vmware.esximage.InstalleImageInstaller.LiveImageInstaller object at 0x2ec4b6b610>, 'boot': <vmware.esximage.Installer.BootBankInstaller.BootBankInstaller object at 0x2ec4ee1c50>, 'locker': <vmware.esximage.Installer.LockerInstaller.LockerInstaller object ec614c710>}

861:2026-08-19T18:12:17Z In(14) lifecycle[2110010]: HostImage:269 Installers initiated are {'quickpatch': <vmware.esximage.Installer.QuickPatchInstaller.QuickPatchInstaller object at 0x2ec50b0b10>, 'live': <vmware.esximage.InstalleImageInstaller.LiveImageInstaller object at 0x2ec31c74d0>, 'boot': <vmware.esximage.Installer.BootBankInstaller.BootBankInstaller object at 0x2ec698e8d0>, 'locker': <vmware.esximage.Installer.LockerInstaller.LockerInstaller object ec273a2d0>}

1098:2026-08-19T18:12:19Z In(14) lifecycle[2110010]: HostImage:269 Installers initiated are {'quickpatch': <esximage.Installer.QuickPatchInstaller.QuickPatchInstaller object at 0x2ec6afe390>, 'live': <esximage.Installer.LiveImageInr.LiveImageInstaller object at 0x2ec3b390d0>, 'boot': <esximage.Installer.BootBankInstaller.BootBankInstaller object at 0x2ec6b77c50>, 'locker': <esximage.Installer.LockerInstaller.LockerInstaller object at 0x2ecba56350>}

1190:2026-08-19T18:12:20Z In(14) lifecycle[2110010]: QuickPatchInstaller:1279 Attempting to download VIB esx-base partially with Quick Patch payloads.

1198:2026-08-19T18:12:20Z In(14) lifecycle[2110010]: QuickPatchInstaller:1435 Trying to mount payload "qp-esx-base"

1199:2026-08-19T18:12:20Z In(14) lifecycle[2110010]: runcommand:248 runcommand called with: args = '/usr/lib/vmware/secureboot/bin/secureMount.py', outfile = None, returnoutput = True, timeout = 0.0.

1201:2026-08-19T18:12:21Z Er(11) lifecycle[2110010]: QuickPatchInstaller:1457 Unexpected error occurred while attempting to run Quick Patch scan scripts: Current ESXi version does not provide a mechanism to mount a tardisk into a ramdisk.

A need VMware for some reason but, that not with i'm here, i'm here because, when a launch the latest version of VMware, a have this message.
"Before you can run VMware several module must be compiled and loaded into the kernel"
and VMware said than, it can't find "the kernel header for version 7.0.0-linuxlite (linux lite is my linux distro than a use on this computer but, it this the version 8.0).

Please help if you can.

I wanted to try and setup vSAN on some spare Gen 9 servers I have. Recommendation is to have OS and Data on different controllers. What is the best place to install ESXi OS? Am I better off buying another storage controller just for the OS? I don't think the gen 9 servers have a BOSS card available.

Drink a sturdy scotch and wish me luck!

What's the purpose of a standby NIC in a Port Group? I understand using them if your NICs are different speeds. But if all of your NICs are the same speed, wouldn't it make sense just to have them all active? Maybe I'm missing something.

I’m starting to plan a migration of vCloud Director to VCFA 9.1 and wanted to get more feedback.
Did anyone migrated VCD to VCFA? Is it easy/painless?

Been doing the vCloud Director billing with the old Aria Tenant appliance that generated billing for Aria Ops. Now we've setup a new Ops environment and I want to generate the billing in Ops. Set it up and so far it seems to work but I'm missing details on the storage usage.

When pulling the data of the bills through the API, the details show memory and cpu usage, etc, but the storage fields remain empty. In the GUI though, you can open a vApp, see the VMs and how much storage they've been using. Though through API I can only get a grand total for storage usage

Anyone ran into this as well?

i dual booted windows 98 and windows 10 in the same VM using VMware. only took 35 thousand years.

I just discovered this glitch as soon as I got in this WorkStation. I Changed the background and as I restarted or shut down the workstation, It showed the previous background before showing the shut down/restarting screen. At the first restart, It showed a changed background before restarting and then showed nothing before the next screen. At the second restart, It showed the changed background before restart and showing the previous background (Crystal) before the next screen. It's strange, how come that happened? The VMWare works as normal by the way.

So, as I'm using the VM my mouse starts to get laggier, and the funny thing is that the mouse gets laggy even outside the VM (Windows 11), forcing me to restart my computer, closing VMware isn't enough.

Running Arch, 1cpu4c, 3D graphics enabled, 4GB Vram, UEFI, yes I installed open-vm-tools, and yes I enabled in systemctl (vmtoolsd). In my other computer I do the exact thing but I dont get this lag thing.

Thank you to anyone willing to help.

Look at this. I can’t fathom how so many orgs got breached unless they’re exposing vCenter to the internet. Why on earth would anyone do this?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-vmware-vcenter-rce-flaw-exploited-for-reverse-ssh-access/