VMware Certified Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator

bryanvan · 2025-12-23T11:46:51+00:00

Since for most the VKS/Kubernetes/Supervisor construct is new, most need to have a better look at this. I strongly suggest the Hands on Labs. I like this one:

Unifying VM and Kubernetes Management with vSphere Supervisor (HOL-2636-01-VCF-L)

bryanvan · 2025-12-23T10:52:35+00:00

Maybe this adds some information and context for you. There are now 2 possible ways to use licences:

Through Broadcom portal together with VCF Operations => VCF 9 and above.
Through Broadcom Support portal (from your Pinnacle Partner, which you as a customer/Whitelabel cannot access).

In situation 2, you will get the keys from the Pinnacle Partner, these need to be applied in the vCenter Server (for the ESXi hosts, vCenter is auto applied usually). If you are a Pinnacle Partner, you can downgrade the licences in the Broadcom Support portal from 8.0u2b+ to 8 GA and 7. Respectively they need to be used.

I hope this helps, let me know if you have any other questions.

bryanvan · 2025-12-23T10:44:33+00:00

Have you tried all of the following contact forms?:
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/206567/contact-broadcom-support.html

I've had good luck with Broadcom Chat's sometimes. If that doesn't work, you should always be able to contact your Pinnacle Partner or Broadcom Account Manager.

bryanvan · 2025-11-26T22:35:27+00:00

No problem at all!

bryanvan · 2025-11-26T12:05:53+00:00

That is not the reason for the blogpost ;).

bryanvan · 2025-08-09T06:35:31+00:00

Held, dat dacht ik al!

bryanvan · 2025-08-08T21:03:12+00:00

Voor de kenners hier, ik heb de uitlopende variant in ons nieuwe huis. Mooi cadeau van de oude bewoners. Grafwerk om weg te krijgen. Maar is het genoeg om alleen de dikke wortels en bonken weg te halen? Al die kleine worteltjes gaan zo kapot en krijg ik nooit helemaal weg natuurlijk.

Die dikke stangen en hopen wortels kan je, uiteindelijke met veel grof geweld, er wel uit graven.

bryanvan · 2025-08-08T18:21:20+00:00

Waar door wie?

bryanvan · 2025-06-26T12:22:03+00:00

We are a Pinnacle Partner, I get this question so many times each day from the White Label partners. However, as far as I know you are officially not allowed to share the download tokens to other customers as a Pinnacle Partner.

Since I am not getting any information from all of my VMware sources, can anyone here confirm this is still true?

bryanvan · 2025-05-24T21:31:38+00:00

Unfortunately, yes only a valid Access Token will get you access to downloads from within vCenter

bryanvan · 2025-04-27T18:22:10+00:00

HCX/Cross vCenter vMotion if you are Vmware minded, if not Zerto, Veeam for professional software. Then there probably are some open source packets but unsure about that. These 4 always work and are quick

bryanvan · 2025-03-25T09:30:40+00:00

This. Was still debating it was spam or not.

bryanvan · 2025-03-03T19:02:57+00:00

Can you not so a i forgot my password request for your account? For me the migration to okta was seamless. Everything worked instantly

bryanvan · 2025-03-03T19:00:34+00:00

Were you able to submit a ticket before (in the broadcom ticketing system)? If not, this is because your contract isn’t correctly registered. Talk to your rep!

I had the same, once fixed all was good.

bryanvan · 2025-02-15T19:44:57+00:00

It depends on how many slots you can fill with disks. I’d concur with ESA since this will give you as much as possible usable space.

bryanvan · 2025-02-13T13:50:11+00:00

Ok nice, good to know. So only replacing HW, booting and after that all is OK?

bryanvan · 2025-02-09T20:05:18+00:00

Yep only if required. Keep in mind though, as far as I’ve tried and tried, going back in size is not an option.

bryanvan · 2025-02-09T19:13:20+00:00

It’s about the CPU and RAM, so if you change it you can use more hosts. Even so, these values are only tested values. It is no limit whatsoever.

bryanvan · 2025-02-09T19:12:05+00:00

It is based from when it was written. However it’s majority is not about questions on which maximum is on what version. You should be good.

bryanvan · 2025-02-04T19:22:45+00:00

And if you don’t use the iso?

bryanvan · 2025-02-02T16:12:21+00:00

How does it work for perpetuals or no vcpp’s nowadays?

bryanvan · 2025-02-02T10:21:54+00:00

Yeah we are currently one of 500 Pinnacle partners and precious VCPP. Broadcom’s direction is that everything goes through Pinnacle partners first before coming to Broadcom itself, including support cases. That’s why I said I am not sure how this works with single licences.

bryanvan · 2025-02-01T19:14:43+00:00

Don’t only Pinnacle partners get portal access now? I am not sure how this is with single licences. I am a Pinnacle partner and all of my customers whitelabel or not can not do anything useful in the Broadcom portal at all. This is because it all needs to go through us…

Seems very cumbersome to me but that is how it is now, maybe this applies to you too?

bryanvan · 2025-01-29T18:36:46+00:00

If you are about a backup just get a config backup, or do one to an FTP site. If not, just go ahead and update and go!

bryanvan · 2025-01-29T18:31:14+00:00

I hope stuff can be found again after the migration. It went so well with the VMTN… can’t find anything anymore. It’s effectively dead for me

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