vSphere Express (128 cores, ESX 9 and vCenter 9, no DRS or vSAN) compared with vSphere Standard 8, which EEA customers can still buy until 31 October 2027 with Extended Support until October 2028: features, packaging, price, support window, upgrade path and what a small or mid-size EEA customer should do. As of November 2026.
How to size SAP HANA VMs on VCF 9 around NUMA: whole or half sockets, vCPUs equal to threads, memory per socket after ESX overhead, the VM settings that matter, and how to check placement with esxtop and sched-stats.
Broadcom's vcf-cert-tool (KB 445742) fixes expired internal certificates on vCenter, ESX, NSX, Supervisor, VCF Operations and Cloud Proxy from one menu-driven CLI. Supported versions, download and how to run it.
SAP HANA on VCF 9 with NFS: why storage needs its own NICs, separate from vMotion. The 2, 4 and 6 NIC models compared on Cisco VIC and HPE Synergy.
VCF 9.x upgrade keeps failing on the vRNI / Aria Operations for Networks thumbprint after a cert change? Clear the stale thumbprint cached in SDDC Manager.
Holodeck 9.0.2 with VCF 9.0.2.0 hangs at Install-VcfInstallerBundles: why the API returns 8 bundles, the PowerShell workaround, and the proper fix.
VCF 9.0 CA wizard: “Certificate authorities update failed” and 401 Unauthorized? A # or & in the CA service account password causes it (KB 406901).
Highlights from VMware Explore 2024 Barcelona: the general session on private cloud, VCF announcements and the sessions worth watching.
Bring existing vSphere into VCF 5.2 with the VCF Import Tool: convert to a management domain, import VI workload domains, prechecks, NSX JSON and sync.
How DPUs and GPUs fit into VMware Cloud Foundation, based on the VMware Explore EU 2024 session: offload, acceleration and use cases.
