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William Lam @lamw

Distinguished Platform Engineering Architect @Broadcom โ€ข ๐Ÿ“ข Customer Advocate โ€ข ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Technologist โ€ข ๐Ÿ–Š๏ธ Blogger โ€ข ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘งโ€๐Ÿ‘ฆ Father โ€ข ๐Ÿง—โ€โ™‚๏ธ Spartan Races

Joined September 2008
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[๐Ÿ†•] - Quick Tip: Resolving OVFTool "Failed to Send File" Errors on macOS williamlam.com/2026/06/quickโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‘†Laziness kept me from finding the real root cause but it finally got annoying enough! ๐Ÿ˜…
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[๐Ÿ†•] - VCF 9.1 - Are You Using the Correct ESXCLI Command to Enable NVMe Tiering? williamlam.com/2026/06/vcf-9โ€ฆ ๐Ÿšจ Make sure you're using the correct command, I've seen many people who "thought" they had NVMe Tiering enabled & wondered why it wasn't working ๐Ÿ˜… #VCF91
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When did AI need a break!?! ๐Ÿ˜…
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[๐Ÿ†•] - VCF 9.1 - OCuLink External Graphics (eGPU) Passthrough with vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) williamlam.com/2026/06/vcf-9โ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‘ For those w/OCuLink (especially @Hi_MINISFORUM MS-A2), this is an easy way to take advantage of more capable GPUs! #VCF91
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๐Ÿ“ข v1.0.0006 of the AMD IPMI Thermal Driver for ESX Fling is now available! Latest update now includes support for Zen 3 as well as existing Zen 4/5 williamlam.com/2026/05/amd-zโ€ฆ

AMD Zen4/Zen5 IPMI Thermal Driver for ESX Fling

Happy Friday! ๐Ÿฅณ A couple of weeks back, Wenchao (creator of the Realtek Network Driver for ESX Fling) reached out to me to share an exciting development he had been working on. Unlike traditional eโ€ฆ

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[๐Ÿ†•] - VCF 9.1 - Quick Tip: Uninstalling Optional Day-N Components williamlam.com/2026/06/vcf-9โ€ฆ #VCF91
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[UPDATED]: #VCF91 - Deploying VCF Management Services (VCFMS) to non-Management Network during VCF Upgrade williamlam.com/2026/06/vcf-9โ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‘†Updated scripts to handle both primary and non-primary VCF Instances

VCF 9.1 - Deploying VCF Management Services (VCFMS) to non-Management Network during VCF Upgrade

As part of upgrading an existing VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) deployment from either VCF 5.x or 9.0.x to VCF 9.1, one of the required steps is deploying the new VCF Management Services (VCFMS) comโ€ฆ

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[๐Ÿ†•] - VCF 9.1 - Deploying VCF Operations for Networks to non-Management Network williamlam.com/2026/06/vcf-9โ€ฆ Thanks @do0dzZZ for reaching out with the VON solution ๐Ÿ˜ JSON is now dynamic using PS rather than static #VCF91
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๐Ÿ‘ Nice post from my colleague Brian O'Connell on granting uses JUST access to the integrated Log Management UI directly within VCF Operations in #VCF91 lifeofbrianoc.com/2026/06/10โ€ฆ The standalone Log Management UI is no longer required!

Grant Users UI Access to Log Management in VCFย 9.1

In VCF 9.1 Log Management is fully integrated into VCF Operations and has its own dedicated section in the VCF Operations UI. In older releases, VCF Operations for logs was a standalone product witโ€ฆ

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[๐Ÿ†•] - VCF 9.1 - Quick Tip: Forgot to Retrieve Auto-Generated Passwords from VCF Installer? williamlam.com/2026/06/vcf-9โ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‘†Definitely had to use this trick, thought I had to re-deploy! ๐Ÿ˜… #VCF91
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Looks like @VMwareExplore breakout notifications have just gone out ๐Ÿ˜… ๐Ÿ˜ Excited to share that I'll have a couple of sessions: ๐Ÿ”ธDesign & Architect: Private Cloud Deploy & Best Practices for #VCF91 w/Sushil Suvarna ๐Ÿ”นTips & Tricks for running #VCF91 in Lab/PoC w/@alanrenouf
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๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ†• VCF 9.0.2 EP02 (9.0.2.0200) patches for the following components: ๐Ÿ”ธVCF Operations ๐Ÿ”นCloud Proxy ๐Ÿ”ธ Log Mgmt ๐Ÿ”น VCF Ops Orchestrator ๐Ÿ”ธ VCF Automation ๐Ÿ”น Identity Broker ๐Ÿ”ธ VCF Ops Fleet Mgmt See ๐Ÿ“’ for details: techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/โ€ฆ
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[๐Ÿ†•] - VCF 9.1 - Configuring vSphere Supervisor to use VCF Identity Broker (IDB) for External Identity Federation williamlam.com/2026/06/vcf-9โ€ฆ #VCF91
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[๐Ÿ†•] - VCF 9.1 - Quick Tip: Understanding VCF Installer Default Behavior for VCF Patch Releases williamlam.com/2026/06/vcf-9โ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‘†Was wondering while re-deploying my lab, especially for API/JSON behavior ... #VCF91
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#VCF91 EP1 fully rolled out! ๐Ÿ˜Ž I'd love to have a native ๐Ÿง  MCP / Agentic Interface to โš™๏ธ VCF Operations ... this way, "IT" can do the clicky click (API calls) & confirm pre-checks before asking for approval ๐Ÿ‘ which can be done over๐Ÿ“ฑ without me being in front of ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป
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[๐Ÿ†•] - VCF 9.1 - Quick Tip: Upgrading ESX Hosts with Non-Certified vSAN ESA NVMe Devices in SDDC Manager williamlam.com/2026/06/vcf-9โ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‘†Lab env using vSAN ESA w/non-supported NVMe Devices, you'll want to read this one if you're applying latest #VCF91 or any updates for that matter!
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Time to update the #VCF91 lab with latest express patch (9.1.0.0100) X = Major = 9 Y = Minor = 1 Z = Maint = 0 XX = Express Patch = 01 YY = Hot Patch = 00 ๐Ÿ‘‰More details on VCF Unified Versioning - knowledge.broadcom.com/exterโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿง  To grab the newest #VCF91 EP01 patches only, use the --patches-only flag & --type=UPGRADE (version is still 9.1.0) using VCFDT vcf-download-tool binaries list --depot-download-token-file ~/dl-token --vcf-version 9.1.0 --patches-only --type=UPGRADE
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[๐Ÿ†•] - VCF 9.1 - Deploying VCF Automation (VCFA) to non-Management Network williamlam.com/2026/06/vcf-9โ€ฆ #VCF91
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๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ†• #VCF91 Express Patch 01 (9.1.0.0100) is now available! ๐Ÿ“’ Release Notes: techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/โ€ฆ (esp VCF 5.2.1 users, must go to 5.2.2/5.2.3 first) ๐Ÿ’ฟ Download: support.broadcom.com/group/eโ€ฆ

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