Product Releases
| NSX | 4.2.3.3 | 01/28 | Release Notes | |
| VMware Remote Console | 13.0.2 | 01/20 | Download | Release Notes |
| VMware Tools | 13.0.10.0 | 01/20 | Download | Release Notes |
Product Lifecycle
| Subject | ID |
|---|---|
| Tanzu Cloud Service Broker for AWS 1.14. | 24.02 |
| Tanzu Cloud Service Broker for GCP 1.8 | 24.02 |
| VKr 1.32 | 28.02 |
| VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition 1.20 | 28.02 |
| VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition Management Console 1.20 | 28.02 |
| VMware Cloud Director extension for VMware Data Solutions 1.4 | 28.02 |
| VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension3.0 | 14.03 |
KB Article
| Subject | ID |
|---|---|
| Failed to add Data Source with error „Collector VM is not responding. Collector VM should be running and reachable from Platform“ | 428507 |
| vmware tools service is not running for windows 2019 VMs with vmware tools version 13.0.5. | 428495 |
| Password expiry for VCF Component shows blank in 9.x | 428485 |
| Virtual Machine(s) in Aria Operations are blank/empty on the Summary Tab | 428482 |
| HCX unable to select VM’s for migration with a message “Virtual Machine is in queue for migration” | 428319 |
| Multiple VMs rebooted due to a vSphere HA trigger following network switch maintenance | 428308 |
| Telegraf agent installation fails on windows due to failure to download config-utils.bat file | 428286 |
| vSAN Health Test and MTU Check Failures During Host Remediation | 428262 |
| VM Uptime % metric shows ‚-‚ on Aria operations UI | 428206 |
| Virtual machines residing on NFSv3 storage become unresponsive during a snapshot removal operation when CBT is enabled | 428200 |
| VM’s VMDK is growing in size quickly | 428188 |
| VCF Operations add Offline depot: Failed to connect to VMware depot with the provided user credentials. Cause: Secure protocol communication error, check logs for more details. | 428162 |
| Upgrade to VCF9 Automation got stuck at Stage 10 „Update admin passowrd“ | 428048 |
| BRICKSTORM Backdoor to vSphere | 427833 |
OnSite Events
| VMUG Connect – Amsterdam | March 17-19 | |
| VMUG Connect – Minneapolis | April 07-09 | |
| VMUG Connect – Toronto | May 12-14 | |
| VMUG Connect – Dallas | June 09-11 | |
| VMUG Connect – Orlando | October 20-22 | |
| Explore Las Vegas 2026 (Save the date) | week of August 31 | |
| Local VMUG Events Overview | ||
TAM Lab | Podcast | Webinar | Blog Posts
Podcasts , Blogs and Webinars published last week
| Cross vCenter vMotion workloads from vSphere 7.0 to vSphere 9.0 williamlam.com | Blogpost |
| While vSphere 7.0 officially reached end of support in October 2025, many organizations continue to operate on it, often not by choice, and on hardware that is likely end of life.An established transition strategy among enterprises is to migrate workloads into a newly deployed environment using the battle tested vSphere vMotion capability. | |
| VM vMotions in VCF Operations brockpeterson.com | Blogpost |
| We get the number of VM vMotions in VCF Operations, but we don’t get the time they occurred, I found a way to determine that with View transformations, here’s how!You can find the number of vMotions on VMs in VCF Operations here. | |
| Your VCF education options vmdaube.de | Blogpost |
| Constant change, especially in IT, has always made regular training essential. With the merge from legacy vSphere to VCF, there is a lot of new stuff to learn. That’s why I want to use this blog post to show you what options are available to support you with VCF and education. | |
| VCF Operations Management Pack Builder Series Part 1 – Overview | Youtube |
| Learn how the Management Pack Builder, a strategic „no-code“ integration tool that empowers VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), can help customers to extend their monitoring capabilities beyond the standard software-defined data center. By providing a streamlined, wizard-driven interface, the Management Pack Builder eliminates the traditional barriers to custom visibility, allowing organizations to ingest data from any third-party source with a REST API. | |
| First VMmark Result Using VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 and vSAN Published VCF Storage (vSAN) | Blogpost |
| We’re seeing increased adoption of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 by partners, and VMmark 4 benchmark results have recently been published by Dell Technologies, Lenovo, and Fsas Technologies using VCF 9.0. In this blog, we’d like to highlight the first result published in 2026. There are several notable achievements with this new result from Dell: | |
| Advanced Cyber Compliance (ACC): Automating Compliance, Security, and Cyber Resilience for VCF Virtually Speaking Podcast | Podcast |
| In this episode of Virtually Speaking, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson continue their Advanced Services series with a deep dive into VMware Advanced Cyber Compliance (ACC)—now generally available for VMware Cloud Foundation customers. Joined by Belu De Arbelaiz and Adam Hawley from VMware’s product management team, the conversation explores why cyber compliance and resilience have become mission-critical, and how ACC helps organizations move beyond manual, point-in-time audits to continuous enforcement and recovery. [..] | |
| Extending Visibility with VMware Cloud Foundation’s Management Pack Builder VCF Operations | Blogpost |
| That’s where the Management Pack Builder (MPB) for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) comes in. MPB is a no-code tool that empowers operations teams to bring external data into VCF’s analytics and monitoring engine, without writing a single line of code. | |
| Decoding Platform Engineering’s Rise: 2025 Industry Report and Key Insights VMware Cloud Foundation | Webinar 02/18/26 |
| Architect’s Edge Live: Modern Containers — Real Workloads. Real Numbers. VKS vs OpenShift — Beyond the Myths VMware Cloud Foundation | Webinar 02/26/26 |
| Kubernetes Level Up Program VMUG | Webinar 02/26/26 |
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