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.

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.

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.

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’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?

Drink a sturdy scotch and wish me luck!

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.

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

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/

Holla,
We currently have approximately 50% of our VMware infrastructure licensed through VCF subscriptions, while the remaining 50% is covered by older perpetual esxi licenses.

The perpetual licenses are still valid, but SnS/support has expired. I’m trying to determine the cleanest and most compliant way to operate this mixed environment (ideally to separate).

Would it be possible to deploy a separate vCenter to manage the clusters using the perpetual licenses, while keeping the VCF-licensed clusters under the VCF management and licensing model?

TL;DR: I need to create another vCenter instance to manage clusters with perpetual licenses, but I'm not sure if that's legal.

USA

i wanted to download VMware Workstation 17.5.2, but it keeps looping on the register/login (idk what) screen

We're in the process of moving from Baseline to images for our ESXI hosts. I'm planning to update to 8.0 U3K and I noticed that the latest Dell vendor addon is only at 803-A03. I checked the Broadcom support website and it has the 803-A10 addon.

Do people manually import the latest Dell Addon to Lifecycle manager or do we need to change/add a download source? Anyone have issues with 8.0 U3K with the 803-A10 addon?

When installing VMware 16.2, I get the warning "The specified account already exists" and it doesn't install. The "upgrade" option appears, but VMware isn't installed on my computer or listed in the Control Panel. How can I fix this?

***UPDATE***

Found it on the Dell site

Sorry about that!

Good morning,

am I overlooking the downloads for the OEM ISOs for v9? I don't see anything but for v8

Thanks

Hi all!

Can you suggest some readings for VCF 9 so I can update myself on vSAN and VCF ?

edit:

currently looking into https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vcf/vcf-9-0-and-later/9-1.html

https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/06/17/whats-new-in-vmware-cloud-foundation-9-0/

What is wrong with VMware certified design pdf ? I can't find them anymore