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Broadcom announces the GA of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0

17 June 2025
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Reading Time: 2 minutesBroadcom has just announced the General Availability (GA) of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, the platform for the modern private cloud. And also has just announced the General Availability (GA) of VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9.0. Currently, vSphere 9.0 features are only available as part of VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 and VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0. There is not yet an independent VMware vSphere 9.0 version. Note that the new products are already in GA… seems that for version 9.0 Broadcom is not using the VMware vSphere 8.0 IA/GA release model. Maybe they will choose again to create […]

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ESXi free is back!

11 April 2025
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Reading Time: 2 minutesOne year ago, Broadcom killed the Free vSphere Hypervisor, but now, with the last VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3e, the free (and limited) version is back again! Broadcom makes again available the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (the entry-level and free hypervisor). To download the free ESXi, you still need to login in the Broadcom Support Portal, but now you don’t need anymore any license entitlement.

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VMware certification retirements (March 2025)

31 March 2025
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs usual, there have been several retirement announcements made for VMware exam and certification retiring because they are becoming outdated. The following exams and certifications are retiring June 30, 2025. No new exam registrations will be available after March 30, 2025.

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VMware vSphere become less SMB friendly

23 March 2025
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Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring those years post Broadcom acquisition of VMware, the VMware vSphere product has become more and more unfriendly for the SMB market. The product editions and pricing have totally changed: no more the Free vSphere Hypervisor, no more Essential and Essential+ bundles, no more perpetual licenses… Note that, in April 2025, Broadcom has reintroduced again an edition of ESXi free! Also download the products will become more “complicated”.

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Installing ESXi 8 with an unsupported CPU

25 January 2025
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Reading Time: 4 minutesVMware ESXi 8 has dropped the compatibility with a lot of old CPU models, as describiled in Broadcom’s article 318697 (CPU Support Deprecation and Discontinuation In vSphere Releases). The result if the following error message if you try to install ESXi 8 on a server with an unsupported CPU:

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VMware ESXi 8 partitions layout

7 January 2025
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteStarting with ESXi 7.0 the partions layout has totally changed, compared to previous versions. And also the disk requirements have changed… you cannot install anymore on a very small disk (less than 4 GB) and the minimum required size is 32 GB. A big change, considering that before was possible install ESXi with less than 1 GB!

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VMware Docs site will be migrated to Broadcom

2 January 2025
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter Broadcom completed the acquisition of VMware most of the services hosted on vmware.com domain have been migrated and integrated on broadcom.com domain. Actually the documentation is still on vmware.com web site, but only for few days.

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