Product Releases
| VKS Standard Packages | 3.6.0 | 2/11 | Release Notes | |
| vSphere Kubernetes | 1.35.0 | 02/11 | Release Notes | |
| USB Network Native Driver for ESXi (ESXi 8.0 Update 3) | 8.0 u3 | 02/13 | Download | Blogpost |
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 Extension 3.0 | 14.03 |
KB Articles
Some new and updated KB articles
| Subject | ID |
|---|---|
| Failed to validate when installing VCF9 management domain with an existing vCenter instance due to duplicated port group name | 429134 |
| Resetting Expired vIDM Certificate to Default Self-Signed Certificate | 429133 |
| vCenter status is Failed in the Component Configuration page | 429046 |
| ESXi Ramdisk /tmp is 100% full | 429012 |
| NTP servers are marked as unreachable | 428960 |
| Aria Operations cluster stuck Going Online | 428923 |
| HCX Compute Profile creation fails with Error „Selected service resource does not contain cluster or host resources“. | 428904 |
| Deprecated CPU Systems / Servers in ESX 9.0 and implications for support | 428874 |
| vMotion Precheck Fails with Error: „vMotion is not licensed for the source/destination host“ | 428866 |
| VCFA and VIDB 9.0.x and vCenter 8.0.x SSL out of sync | 428829 |
| HCX Site pairing for remote URL shows as „HCX URL Not Available“ | 428815 |
| Unable to add 2 or more Primary Licenses to a vCenter in a VCF 9.x environment | 428772 |
| NSX Management Plane Upgrade stuck at 70% | 428713 |
| Change the IP Address of VCF 9.0 or later deployment | 428698 |
| VVF for VDI Lifecycle Support | 428674 |
| Multi-VM Deployments Failing due to Network Selection | 428665 |
| How long do logs stay on an Esxi host? | 428660 |
| Licensing workflow for vSphere 9.x and VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 | 428638 |
| After restoring the HCX 9.0 backups, the HCX Admin (port 9443) is inaccessible | 428630 |
| Support for HCX 9.0 on VMware Cloud on AWS. | 428552 |
| How to Check ESXi Host License Information from the Command Line Interface (CLI) | 428537 |
OnSite Events
Incl. VMUG User/cons
| 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
| VCF Operations Telegraf Agent Health brockpeterson.com | Blogpost |
| I’m running Telegraf Agents on some VMs in my environment and wanted to see their status without going to the Workload Operations – Applications – Manage Telegraf Agents page. Here’s what I did. [..] | |
| Introducing VMware vDefend featuring Chris McCain! Unexplored Territory #112 | Podcast |
| A few episodes ago Yves Hertoghs was on the show to discuss networking, so @Duncan Epping decided, it was also time to discuss security. As @Chris McCain has been at the forefront of networking and #security at #VMware for over a decade, it only made sense to reach out and invite him to introduce #vDefend! | |
| VCF Operations Diagnostics brockpeterson.com | Blogpost |
| We introduced Diagnostics in 8.18, improved on it in 8.18.2, and re-imagined it entirely in VCF Operations 9! In addition to Active Findings (exportable), we have Historical Findings, and the Findings Catalog. We also introduced Log Assist, the ability to upload Support Bundles to Broadcom Support for SRs. | |
| How vSphere DRS Makes GPU Placement Decisions frankdenneman.nl | Blogpost |
| In the first two articles, @Frank Dennemann looked at GPU consumption models and how AI workloads state their accelerator needs. In vSphere, these models take shape through virtual machine settings. CPU reservations, memory guarantees, and GPU profile choices together create a clear resource contract. | |
| vSphere Kubernetes Service 3.6 Now Supports RHEL 9 VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) | Blogpost |
| Eliminating the OS Barrier: For many enterprise platform teams, adoption isn’t blocked by Kubernetes features—it’s blocked by the OS. You might want the automated lifecycle management of VKS, but you cannot abandon the RHEL standards that underpin your security compliance, licensing models, and operational toolchains. | |
| One Platform for All Workloads VMware Cloud Foundation | Blogpost |
| [..] Never has it been easier for humans to produce new code that meets a need – and new code needs infrastructure: compute, networking, storage. Provisioning, patching, upgrading, hardening, optimizing, and recycling will be top priority for IT leaders and engineers. Hyperscalers offered, and delivered, alleviation to organizations by managing much of infrastructure life cycle operations, but concerns about cost, compliance, and data sovereignty are key drivers of the Private Cloud Reset. [..] | |
| vSphere 9.0 Memory Tiering with Puneet Sharma VMware Cloud Foundation | Podcast (Youtube) |
| Puneet Sharma (Client Services Consultant, VCF, at Broadcom & 4-year vExpert) is joining Bob and Eric to talk about his trending article covering Memory Tiering with VCF 9. With memory prices going crazy, using SSD for memory expansion is something worth learning. | |
| Newly Updated Technical Guides: MS SQL Server and ADDS on VCF VCF Operations | Blogpost |
| You’ve met VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). You’ve met modern Microsoft workloads. Now you need prescriptive guidance that reflects how people are actually building private clouds today – especially when the applications in question are the ones your business can’t afford to get wrong. We’ve just published a collection of refreshed versions of technical guides that bring our guidance forward for VCF-era architectures, and for newer Microsoft application capabilities, including SQL Server 2025 and Windows Server 2025. | |
| Extreme Performance Series 2026: Using vTopology in VCF 9 VMware Cloud Foundation | Podcast (Youtube) |
| The Extreme Performance Series is back for 2026! This video blog series covers the highlights of recent performance work on VMware technology. Todd Muirhead talks with Mark Achtemichuk about using the automatic vTopology setting in VCF9 to get the best configuration for virtual CPUs and virtual NUMA nodes. Auto vTopology can address issues with improperly configured VMs and improve performance. | |
| Decoding Platform Engineering’s Rise: 2025 Industry Report and Key Insights VMware Cloud Foundatio | Webinar02/18/26 |
| Architect’s Edge Live: Modern Containers — Real Workloads. Real Numbers. VKS vs OpenShift — Beyond the Myths VMware Cloud Foundation | Webinar02/26/26 |
| Kubernetes Level Up Program VMUG | Webinar02/26/26 |