By default the VCF-Installer only supports https requests. But certs are a pain in a homelab so i downgrade my vcf-installer to support http 🙂 william lam alread described that for 9.0: https://williamlam.com/2025/06/using-http-with-vcf-9-0-installer-for-offline-depot.html and we are now going to do the same for 9.1 connect to your vcf-installer via ssh as vcf and then su…
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Register your VCF Offline Depot with the VCF Business Console and download the Binaries
With VCF 9.1 you need to register your VCF Offline depot with the VCF Business website: To do that download the vcf-download-tool in version 9.1 and run it with the following command: In the VCF Business Console you will be able to manually register your software depot: And then you will receive an activation code…
PCIe Bifurication and NVMe PCIe-Cards for vSAN ESA
You might wonder how you can add more NVME Drives on a mainboard as most m2-slots are sparse but we have PCIE-Slots and nice Adapters: But they won’t work easily in any mainboard as these cards bring some PCIe-Lane Divison with them. You see, a NVME is typically bound to 4 CPU-Lanes to leverage those…
Migrate Virtual Machines from Hyper V to VCF 9 with HCX
Something which doesn’t seem to happen so often is the migration of virtual machines from other Hypervisors to VCF. Granted, for some Windows Services like Active-Directory, File-Services or VDI Services you can simply deploy another Windows Server, make it a replica and then decomission your old Server. But even so, there are some other applications…
vCenter 9 Deployment
Let’s see what has changed in the Deployment process.We’re starting with the vCenter Setup. Requirements as always, preparing vCenter should come with the following preparations: Typcally the GUI-installer is still there but the color changed a little bit 🙂 T-shirt sizes for the deployments are still the same Selection of Datastores in my Homelab but…
Generate the Broadcom Download Token
As announced per Mail this KB mentions that (pretty much starting with VCF 9) all releases are only downloadable by creating a Download Token. https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/390098 First login to support.broadcom.com with your user-account that has the entitlements. Within the Dashboard in the lower right corner, there is a bubble called “Quick Links” and there you will…
Broadcom VMware Explore 2024 – Recap
Visiting the Broadcom VMware Explore in Barcelona is always a nice opportunity to get updates, stay in touch with customers,partners old colleagues and deep dive into nice technical sessions or discussions. Best time is when the session cataloug gets filled with Breakout sessions, becase then the real planning starts (depending on how early you got…