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Bye bye VMware vVols

24 June 2025
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe new VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 comes with a long list of deprecated features! One of this the VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols) introduces for the first time in vSphere 6.0. They are an integration and management framework to enable external storage to become VM-aware storage. But vVols got some limitations (like replication in the first release, or backup via SAN mode) and a huge problem: not all Virtual Volumes implementation are the same (some storage vendors do it very well, but not all).

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Where is ESXi 9.0 free?

23 June 2025
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne year ago, Broadcom killed the Free vSphere Hypervisor, but on April, with the 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). But now Broadcom has released the GA of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 and VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0. So, the question is easy… where is the ESXi 9.0 free edition?

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Deprecated and removed features in VCF 9.0

22 June 2025
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Reading Time: 4 minutesAccording to the VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Product Support Notes there are several VMware features deprecated! All of deprecated features will be removed in a future vCenter release. And some features has already been removed in version 9.0 because deprecated in previous versions. Deprecation of vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS):

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VMware virtual hardware 22

20 June 2025
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Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen you create a virtual machine or upgrade an existing virtual machine, you use the virtual machine compatibility setting to select the ESXi host versions that the virtual machine can run on. The compatibility setting determines the virtual hardware available to the virtual machine, which corresponds to the physical hardware available on the host. Virtual hardware includes BIOS and EFI, available virtual PCI slots, the maximum number of CPUs, the maximum memory configuration, and other characteristics. New virtual hardware capabilities are typically released once a year with major or minor releases of vSphere. The new VCF and […]

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What’s new in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0

18 June 2025
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Reading Time: 14 minutesBroadcom has just announced the General Availability (GA) of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 and the General Availability (GA) of VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9.0. The best way to learn more about the new features is to try the new VMware Hands on Labs:

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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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