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William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 3h

New KB in adding additional principal storage types (iSCSI, NFS v4.1, and NVMe over Fabrics (FC or TCP)) with #VCF9 using the Converge/Import workflows

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Additional Principal Storage Options in VMware Cloud Foundation 9

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 supports a variety of storage types as principal storage (see Storage Models in the product documentation for more details). Typ

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William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 5h

🆕VMware Advanced Cyber Compliance offer is now available to #VCF Customers blogs.vmware.com/cloud-founda...

VMware Advanced Cyber Compliance is Now Available to VCF Customers

Following the announcement at VMware Explore earlier this year, we are now making a new Advanced Service generally available for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) customers. Starting November 3rd, VCF cus...

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William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 6h

Very nice post and reminder from Pete Koehler - vSAN Data Protection in VMware Cloud Foundation, the solution you already own!

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vSAN Data Protection in VMware Cloud Foundation – The Solution You Already Own

With a flurry of announcements and new capabilities offered in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, it is sometimes easy to overlook relatively new features hidden in plain sight. Protecting data in a p...

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William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 7h

🔥🗞️ Super slick PowerCLI script for deploying #VCF9 Edge using a Single-Node vSphere Supervisor w/ArgoCD at SCALE! 👏

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VCF Edge - Single-Node vSphere Supervisor with ArgoCD Automation Script

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William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 22h

Minisforum has done a great job of stretching their MS-01 chassis design to MS-A2 & now their 1st Arm-based system with upcoming MS-R1

🔸Cortex-A720 (P-Core) & Cortex-A520 (E-Core)
🔹Up to 64GB LPDDR5 Memory
🔸Dual 10GbE Networking

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William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 1d

[🆕] - JFrog Artifactory as VCF Software Depot for VCF Installer & SDDC Manager williamlam.com/2025/11/jfro...

#VCF9

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 1d

What a PITA to setup! 😤

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 3d

VERY nice uber KB for all things #VCF knowledge.broadcom.com/external/art...

🔖 This is definitely a bookmark! Cheers to support folks for putting this together 👏

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Known Issues

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William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 4d

Recieved this note from another happy #ghettoVCB user ☺️

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William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 5d

[🆕] - Identifying VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) managed service accounts in vCenter Server williamlam.com/2025/10/iden...

#VCF9

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 7d

Cheers Wil!

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 7d

[🆕] - Configuring VCF Automation (VCFA) Organization Portal OIDC IdP using Terraform Provider for VCFA williamlam.com/2025/10/conf...

#VCF9

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William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 8d

[🆕] - Flexible Combinations with VCF Fleet Deployment Models williamlam.com/2025/10/flex...

#VCF9

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 8d

Here's another slick #VCF9 setup based on my BOM (williamlam.com/2025/10/my-v...) that was just shared internally

There's fans in between all 4 MS-A2 to ensure proper cooling & these were 3D printed chassis (which you can find free online)

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 8d

Not bad for an initial #VCF9 deployment ... 1.34x savings thanks to vSAN Global Dedupe! 🥳

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 10d

Its been fantastic! Its my go-to for so many things, especially DNS

You can see all my uses williamlam.com?s=synology