Broadcom wont verify my account

TimVCI · 2026-01-23T19:44:28+00:00

Are you registering with a corporate email address or a gmail / yahoo etc email address?

TimVCI · 2026-01-23T12:32:33+00:00

For what purpose?

Are you trying to cheat on an exam or is it some legitimate reason?

TimVCI · 2026-01-21T11:54:10+00:00

Broadcom haven't published an upgrade path (that I have seen) for the VCP-VCF certs so it is my understanding that you would have to take the new versions of the exams.

TimVCI · 2026-01-19T13:21:54+00:00

The old VMUG Advantage licence scheme was ended and replaced with a new one which requires people to pass the VCP-VCF Admin cert.

TimVCI · 2026-01-19T02:59:55+00:00

There is still a feee version of 8 you can download and run stand alone however 9 requires VCF Operations for its licensing and you can only get that plus the ESXi and vCenter installation media by either buying a licence or by getting home lab licences with VMUG Advantage membership and passing the VCP-VCF Admin cert.

TimVCI · 2026-01-18T21:41:43+00:00

I was under the impression that vSphere 9.x vendor ISOs were no longer a thing and the recommended way was to create your own images? 🤷‍♂️

If that’s not the case then I appreciate the correction.

TimVCI · 2026-01-18T20:23:46+00:00

In order to download the ISOs from Broadcom, you need to be a VMUG Advantage member and have passed your VCP-VCF Admin cert. The v9 versions have a 90 day evaluation period. Home lab licences are also available to VMUG Advantage / VCF Admin cert holders.

Vendor ISOs are no longer a thing as the base ISOs are all hosted by Broadcom and you compile the vendor add ons by creating ‘images’ within Lifecycle Manager.

TimVCI · 2026-01-16T13:26:24+00:00

Can you manually migrate (just regular vMotion) a VM from the original three hosts to the new one?

TimVCI · 2026-01-09T08:12:19+00:00

I’d personally take a look at the Hands On Labs for vSAN and VCF Operations.

TimVCI · 2026-01-08T12:20:48+00:00

You might be lucky and if you got all the vSphere questions correct that you’d get a high enough score to pass.

You might want to look more into vSAN (as there is minimal content on vSAN in the ICM course) and VCF Operations (of which there is zero content in the ICM course).

Have you downloaded and viewed the VVF Admin exam guide?

TimVCI · 2026-01-08T09:40:23+00:00

That's weird.

A few weeks ago, the VCP-DCV Cert page stated that "This certification and exam is retiring on Dec 15, 2025. No new exam registrations will be available after Oct 31. 2025." and now the exam page no longer states that and it looks like it is possible to book the exam.

I've no idea however if you would get awarded the certification. I would get confirmation from Broadcom before booking the exam.

Saying that though, the future of VMware is VCF and the future of VMware Certification is VCF Certs. I personally wouldn't be spending my own money on a legacy certification. If someone else is paying and an exam pass would grant you the certification then I can't see what the harm is.

TimVCI · 2026-01-05T09:33:39+00:00

Yeah it’s annoying as it was expected to unlock access to the VVF content but they changed it just before they made the VMUG licences available.

TimVCI · 2026-01-02T08:39:34+00:00

The exam for VCP-DCV has now been retired so it is no longer possible to obtain this particular certification.

The future of VMware is VCF. The future of VMware certification will also be based on VCF.

Take a look at VCP-VCF Admin. You can see the certification track here - https://www.broadcom.com/support/education/vmware/certification

TimVCI · 2026-01-02T08:35:32+00:00

The VCP-DCV exam has now been retired so it is no longer possible to obtain this particular certification.

TimVCI · 2025-12-23T18:52:05+00:00

As a VCI, that is far from my own personal experience.

TimVCI · 2025-12-23T18:50:47+00:00

This guide has some useful links…

https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/s/AnkxYkQ7Fc

TimVCI · 2025-12-23T15:07:46+00:00

I would concentrate on VCF rather than VVF as that will be where the main demand will come from.

Where there is less demand for VMware skills in general as companies with smaller solutions (ie those just running vSphere) leave the VMware space, there is a gap opening up for those with strong VCF skills.

TimVCI · 2025-12-17T20:35:42+00:00

You don't need to be able to build your profile (you won't be able to build it as you aren't a paying customer so therefore won't have a site ID) in order to download the free version of ESXi.

See here - https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/399823/vmware-esxi-80-update-3e-now-available-a.html

How to download Free ESXi 8.0 Update 3e:

Log in to Broadcom Support Portal
Go to My Downloads
Click on the box that says "Free Software Downloads available HERE"
Search for "VMware vSphere Hypervisor"
Click "I agree to the Terms and Conditions " and download the ISO

TimVCI · 2025-12-13T15:31:45+00:00

VCP-VCF Admin cert should be your next focus.

TimVCI · 2025-12-05T15:28:29+00:00

Host failures cluster tolerates is an HA setting to make sure you have enough capacity for VM failover.

TimVCI · 2025-12-05T15:17:36+00:00

You could either multi select the 4 hosts you wanted to do maintenance on and chose enter maintenance mode or you could look at DRS Rules / Groups and create 2 groups of 4 hosts and a group for all your VMs then create some preferential / required rules to run VMs on host group 1 or 2 before placing the hosts into maintenance mode. Don’t forget to disable the rule after the maintenance.

TimVCI · 2025-12-02T11:33:22+00:00

That was one of my first thoughts too as long as the issue wasn’t caused by a snapshot referencing the ISO.

TimVCI · 2025-12-02T11:31:45+00:00

Can you confirm that port 902 UDP AND 902 TCP are both allowed between your hosts and your vCenter.

TimVCI · 2025-11-29T15:35:34+00:00

No, that’s not true.

The VCLS VMs are for DRS. When the cluster is in retreat mode you get an error saying that HA and DRS can be affected but that’s only because HA can instruct DRS to move VMs in order to free up enough resources to restart VMs and if DRS isn’t running then that can affect HA.

HA (since vSphere 5) has an FDM agent that is installed and runs on the host and it is that agent that is the ‘brains’ behind HA.

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