Product Releases
| Live Recovery | 9.0.5.1 | 04/20 | Download | Release Notes |
| Live Recovery Add-on | 9.0.5.1 | 04/20 | Download | Release Notes |
| Live Site Recovery | 9.0.5.1 | 04/20 | Download | Release Notes |
| Live Site Recovery | 9.0.2.4 | 04/20 | Download | Release Notes |
| Live Recovery | 9.0.5.1 | 04/20 | Download | Release Notes |
| vSphere Replication | 9.0.5.1 | 04/20 | Download | Release Notes |
| Live Recovery (Express Patch) 9.0.5.1 | KB-Article | |||
| Unified VCF Product Releases & Versioning VMware Explore | Blogpost |
| Starting with VCF 9.0, all VMware Cloud Foundation Components and supporting tools will use a different versioning convention from previous VCF releases and individual component releases. This new versioning convention will replace all prior product release version formats from VCF 9.0 forward. | |
Product Lifecycle
| Product | Version | EOS |
|---|---|---|
| VMware Fusion (for Intel-based and Apple silicon Macs) | 25H2 | 01.06.26 |
| VMware Workstation Player | 25H2 | 01.06.26 |
| VMware Workstation Pro (For Windows) | 25H2 | 01.06.26 |
| VMware Workstation Pro for Linux | 25H2 | 01.06.26 |
| VMware Tools | 11.3.0 | 17.06.26 |
| VMware Tools | 11.3.5 | 17.06.26 |
| VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension | 3.0.0.1 | 27.06.26 |
| VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension | 3.1 | 27.06.26 |
| VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension | 3.1.0.1 | 27.06.26 |
| VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension | 3.1.0.2 | 27.06.26 |
| VMware Aria Automation Config | 8.17.0 | 30.06.26 |
Explore
Las Vegas, Nevada | The Venetian
Aug. 31 – Sep. 3, 2026
| Registration Is Now Live for Las Vegas | Explore |
| Accelerate your career development, stay ahead of the latest industry trends, and reunite with old friends and new at Explore. Early-bird registration is officially open, offering the best value at the lowest price. Early-Bird Value: Save $200 off the Full Event Pass, only until June 16. Grab the value before the budget gets “reallocated” elsewhere. VMUG Advantage Members can save an additional $100. Check the pricing page for all pass types, group rates, and details. | |
| Build Your Case for Attending VMware Explore 2026 | Explore |
| We get it—getting your manager’s green light to attend a big event like VMware Explore isn’t always easy. Between budget constraints, busy schedules, and a mountain of priorities, securing approval can feel like an uphill battle. Your manager doesn’t just want a list of sessions. They want to know how four days in Las Vegas will help your team cut through the complexity of the modern cloud. But don’t worry, we’ve made it easier for you with the “convince your manager” toolkit. | |
KB Articles
| Subject | ID |
|---|---|
| vsphere replication hosts showing disconnected | 438239 |
| HCX OS-Assisted Migration (OSAM) overview | 438237 |
| vSAN ESA NVMe drives incorrectly display as „Absent“ and Virtual Machines appear as „(inaccessible)“ due to Kernel Heap Exhaustion | 438215 |
| vSAN Witness Appliance fails to join cluster with Out of Memory (OOM) and CMMDS Admission Failure | 438199 |
| NSX Edge router (FRR) logs are not logging | 438151 |
| Error: „Encountered an error. Verify system and operations-network appliance health“ under Network Operations in VCF Operations | 438127 |
| Telegraf agent installation on Windows fails with error „SKIP_CERTIFICATE should be {1, 0}“ | 438101 |
| Offline Depot Missing Version Info in VCF 9.x Due to Missing Subject Alternative Name (SAN) in Certificates | 438066 |
| Configuring an External Load Balancer for the NSX Management Cluster | 438038 |
| Advanced parameters registered by Dell VIBs cannot be removed individually from ESXi | 437943 |
| Disconnected agents are removed prematurely from Aria Operations for Logs | 437940 |
| ESXi Hosts in „Not Responding“ State | 437937 |
| VMXNET3 „out of buffers“ packet drops on Windows VMs in ESXi 8.0 | 437897 |
| Distribution View Will Not Populate List View When Connected in a Dashboard | 437885 |
| ESXi 8.0 Update 3i reports „GetKernelStatValues: Detected error while retrieving stats: VSINode(2653): Not found“ on Intel Emerald Rapids CPUs | 437836 |
| Identifying VM Network Latency using tracert and traceroute | 437792 |
| User unable to login to GUI of VCF Operations for Networks | 437758 |
| vSAN ESA Storage Policy and Encryption FAQ – VCF 9.0 | 437757 |
| vCenter Server vMotion hangs at 84% with destination host Not Responding | 437748 |
| vSAN VM snapshot stuns and quiesce timeouts caused by VMkernel Multihoming | 437724 |
| Windows VM sending excessive DNS queries for VMware-Plugin | 437709 |
| VCF Identity Broker encountered an issue during authentication due to AD certificate change | 437682 |
| ConnectTimeoutException when using Principle Identity Authentication in VCF Operations for Networks | 437680 |
| Long processing times when extending or enabling MON on HCX segments with a large number of VMs | 437677 |
| NSX Manager UI and API are inaccessible via the Virtual IP (VIP) and individual node IPs. | 437669 |
| High ESXi host utilization after migrating an NSX Edge VM configured for Layer 2 Bridging | 437644 |
| How to identify the MTEP (replicator) for BUM traffic replication between edge and host underlays. | 437643 |
| ESXi host reporting overall Skyline Health status of „Failed“ Following a server firmware upgrade on a Cisco AF-6-UCS240-M7SX server | 437614 |
| Webhook configuration failure in VCF Operations for Logs due to TLS Handshake Error: handshake_failure(40) | 437600 |
| Virtual machine does not respond to ping (ICMP) requests while connections over other protocols are successful | 437547 |
| Unable to view maps in home and physical data center in VCF Operations | 437540 |
| ESXi hosts disconnect and storage is lost after BIOS upgrade on Dell PowerEdge Servers | 437536 |
| Host TPM Attestation alarm in vCenter UI | 437534 |
| VMware Tools Version Inconsistency Explained | 437532 |
| Hostd service crashing without core dumps on stateless hosts | 437517 |
| Access Denied error when selecting secondary domain from VMware Identity Manager login dropdown | 437505 |
| vCenter UI hangs during VMFS extension on hosts utilizing Marvell/QLogic qed driver | 437483 |
| VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) Certificate Rotation for Entra ID Integration | 437482 |
OnSite Events
Incl. VMUG User/cons
| VMUG Connect – Minneapolis – Recap [virtually Speaking] | April 07-09 | |
| VMUG Connect – Toronto | May 12-14 | |
| VMUG Connect – Dallas | June 09-11 | |
| Explore – Las Vegas | Aug 31- Sep 03 | |
| Explore on Tour – Mumbai | September 29-30 | |
| Explore on Tour – Singapore | October 1 – 2 | |
| Explore on Tour – Frankfurt | October 13-14 | |
| Explore on Tour – Tokyo | October 20-21 | |
| VMUG Connect – Orlando | October 20-22 | |
| Explore on Tour – London | November 18-19 | |
| Explore on Tour – Washington D.C. | December 8 | |
| Local VMUG Events Overview | ||
Podcast | Webinar | Blog Posts
Podcasts , Blogs and Webinars published last week
Blogpost
| Build Your Case for Attending VMware Explore 2026 VMware Explore | Blogpost |
| We get it—getting your manager’s green light to attend a big event like VMware Explore isn’t always easy. Between budget constraints, busy schedules, and a mountain of priorities, securing approval can feel like an uphill battle. Your manager doesn’t just want a list of sessions. They want to know how four days in Las Vegas will help your team cut through the complexity of the modern cloud. But don’t worry, we’ve made it easier for you with the “convince your manager” toolkit. | |
| VCF Automation Network Profiles VMware Explore | Blogpost |
| VCF Automation Network Profiles are a powerful way to define networks and associated settings to Cloud Accounts and/or Regions. I’ve recently deployed VCF Automation 8.18.1 (but this also works for VCF Automation 9 VM Apps) and would like to start deploying VMs on an IP Block for testing purposes. Here’s how I did it. I first setup my Cloud Account via Assembler – Infrastructure – Connections – Cloud Accounts. This is your connection to the vCenter you’ll be deploying VMs into. | |
| vSphere Tags and Custom Attributes in VCF Operations VMware Explore | Blogpost |
| We’ve discussed vSphere Tags and Custom Attributes a couple times. Both are very powerful, yet quite different in terms of how they present in VCF Operations. Have a look. | |
| CPU, Disk, Network, and Memory Workload Profiles for DVD Store Database Testing VCF Performance | Blogpost |
| DVD Store, an open source database testing toolkit, has been widely used since it was originally released in 2005. It can be run on SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL databases. DVD Store simulates an online store where users log in, browse, review, rate, and purchase DVDs. It uses many common database features including stored procedures, indexes, foreign keys, full text search, multi-join complex queries, and transactions. DVD Store was originally developed and designed to be a database workload that is CPU intensive. It has also always included parameters that can be used to alter this CPU-intensive profile, allowing for network-, disk-, and even memory-intensive profiles. | |
| Stop Guessing: Advanced Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Data Services VMware Explore | Blogpost |
| If you’ve ever been on a bridge call trying to identify why a production application is lagging, you know the frustration of “The Blame Game.” The app team blames the database, the DBA blames the storage, and the infrastructure team points at the network. In a traditional siloed environment, finding the root cause often requires correlating logs from three different consoles while the clock is ticking. With VMware Data Services Manager (DSM), we are putting an end to the guesswork. By providing deep, granular visibility into database internals and unifying that data within the broader VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) operations layer, we’re giving practitioners the tools to move from reactive firefighting to proactive optimization. | |
Podcast
| AI Administration with Agentic Tools with Bob Plankers Community Podcast #765 | Podcast |
| Bob and Eric continue the conversation about Agentic tools to manage day to day tasks as an IT administrator. | |
| Lessons from an Upgrade to VCF 9 Virtually Speaking Podcast | Podcast |
| In this episode of Virtually Speaking, we sit down with a real customer to unpack their journey from a global vSphere environment to VMware Cloud Foundation 9. From early planning and architecture decisions to unexpected challenges and lessons learned along the way, this is a candid look at what a large-scale migration actually looks like in the real world. We cover everything from consolidating global data centers and deploying VCF 5.2 to making the leap to VCF 9.0, including why features like simplified lifecycle management and Private AI played a key role in the decision. If you’re planning a migration or just want to hear how others are approaching modernization with VCF, this episode is packed with practical insights you can apply right away. | |
| An update on all things Memory Tiering featuring Arvind Jagannath! Unexplored Territory #117 | Podcast |
| Arvind is back to provide an update on all things Memory Tiering. The interest in Memory Tiering is high due to insane memory prices and supply chain issues. Arvind goes over the basics of memory tiering and provides an insight into what to expect in the upcoming release of VCF/vSphere when it comes to Memory Tiering! Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts (bit.ly/4tChsfH), Spotify (bit.ly/4mYpQ6O), watch it on Youtube, or just use the embedded players below. | |
Webinar
| Rack & Stack: Core infrastructure decisions VMUG | 04/30/26 Webinar |
| Rack & Stack: Core Infrastructure Decisions brings together practitioners and key industry partners to explore how modern infrastructure is designed and scaled.You’ll hear quick, 30-minute sessions from experts at Panduit, Comdivision, Independent Electrical Contractors, and peers from the VMUG community, covering critical topics like hardware strategy, rack density, and power, cooling, and electrical considerations.The sessions are designed as focused, high-impact “quick hits” to give you practical insights fast. We’ll then bring everyone together for an interactive Ask Me Anything with speakers and attendees, creating space for real-world discussion and deeper problem solving.This event is designed for the full-stack technologist, helping you connect the dots across infrastructure decisions in today’s evolving environments. | |
| Inside VMware Cloud Foundation A Live Briefing on What’s Next | 05/05/26 Webinar |
| Exclusive live briefing on the next planned release of VCF Hear directly from Paul Turner, Chief Product Officer of the VCF Division, and the engineers, architects, and customers behind the release. In this practitioner event, you will get a first look into:The big picture: How this planned release addresses AI demand, hardware costs, and cyber threats.First public demos: Walkthrough of new capabilities that simplify operations at scale.How this planned release delivers on 3 key practitioner outcomes: Higher Efficiency: Get more from what you have. Capacity gains without new hardware spend.Faster Velocity: Unified Kubernetes and GPU platforms that accelerate AI/ML workloads without operational overhead.Built-in Resilience: Integrated recovery and automated compliance that eliminate third-party tools. You’ll also hear directly from customers on where they’re investing first in their AI infrastructure journey and what outcomes they expect. And you’ll get unfiltered Q&A with the experts behind this release. | |
| Hypervisor Blind Spots: Compliance, Liability, and Financial Sector Risk VMUG | 05/07/26 Webinar |
| Hypervisors have long been overlooked in compliance frameworks and audit processes, leaving a critical gap in financial institutions’ risk posture. Beginning with MITRE ATT&CK v17 elevating virtualization-layer techniques and auditors beginning to scrutinize this gap, recent attacks by groups like Scattered Spider have raised the stakes—including personal liability for CISOs. This session breaks down regulatory expectations, reporting obligations, and emerging accountability risks, giving attendees practical steps to close compliance gaps and strengthen governance to avoid costly breaches and legal exposure. | |
| What’s New in VCF Security for Federal Compliance A Live Briefing on What’s Next | 05/07/26 Webinar |
| Tune in to hear from security expert and VCF platform engineer, Bob Plankers, as he discusses the new features and capabilities of VMware Cloud Foundation 9 and how they address current threats and compliance challenges. Bob will be taking questions throughout this interactive session. Bob Plankers has spent three decades leading teams that design, build, operate, and automate reliable & secure IT infrastructure, as both an end user and part of product development teams. He currently focuses on applied security, compliance, and operational resilience within the VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation platforms at Broadcom. He can often be found talking about his experiences on stage, in person, and even sometimes on YouTube, in his authentic, humorous manner. | |
| What’s New in VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence 10.4 Tanzu | 05/21/26 |
| Join us for an in-depth look at VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence 10.4. In this session, we will share with you the latest capabilities designed to simplify data access, reduce manual administration, and improve platform resilience for the private cloud. We will explore how these updates can help organizations bring AI compute and data together within a secure environment, without the cost and risk of complex data movement. | |
VMware Security Advisories History 2026
| VMSA ID | Products | Affected CVE |
| VMSA-2026-0002 | VMware WorkstationVMware Fusion | CVE-2026-22715CVE-2026-22716CVE-2026-22717CVE-2026-22722 |
| VMSA-2026-0001 | Aria Operations | CVE-2026-22719 CVE-2026-22720 CVE-2026-22721 |