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William Lam

William Lam

@lamw.bsky.social

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Distinguished Platform Engineering Architect, Broadcom • 📢 Customer Advocate • 🧑‍💻 Technologist • 🖊️ Blogger • 👨‍👧‍👦 Father • 🧗‍♂️ Spartan Races

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William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 8h

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

wccftech.com/minisforum-p...

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 15h

[🆕] - 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

knowledge.broadcom.com

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 4d

Recieved this note from another happy #ghettoVCB user ☺️

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 4d

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

#VCF9

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 6d

Cheers Wil!

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 6d

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

#VCF9

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 7d

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

#VCF9

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

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

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William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 10d

Its been a lonngggggg time since I've had to setup an SFTP server ... love how easy it is with Synology with simple ✔️ and using it for my #VCF9📦 😄

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks Michael! 🙏

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 10d

⏳💨 1️⃣4️⃣ year work anniversary today! 🥳

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 10d

williamlam.com/2025/09/my-v...

My VCF 9 Lab Network Diagram

During VMware Explore, I had a request from an attendee who was interested in my physical networking and how it is all connected for my VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 Lab setup. The network diag…

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 10d

[🆕] - Quick Tip - Deploy OVF/OVA with Basic Authentication Endpoint williamlam.com/2025/10/quic...

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 11d

[🆕] - Scaling ESX DCUI & Console for Compressed Screen Resolution williamlam.com/2025/10/scal...

☝️While this is a very niche use case, if you do have a tiny display needing to render DCUI/Console, definitely nice trick! 🪄

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 12d

Micron's SOCAMM2 now supports up to 192GB (LPDDR5), while the target is for AI Datacenters ... hoping we'll see extend into small form factor kits! 🤩

investors.micron.com/news-release...

investors.micron.com

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 12d

JFYI - All my #VCF9 content can easily be found at williamlam.com/vmware-cloud... which includes ALL workarounds you might need for PoC/Lab environments.

Still getting dupe inquiries daily on things that have been answered months ago, make sure to bookmark page to stay up to date!🧠

VMware Cloud Foundation 9

VCF MS-A2 Lab Deployment MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Build-of-Materials (BOM) MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Physical Mini Rack Layout MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Physical Network Layout MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Physical Network Conf…

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 12d

[🆕] - Automating VCF Automation (VCFA) Configuration using VCFA Terraform Provider williamlam.com/2025/10/auto...

⚙️ FTW!

#VCF9

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 13d

[🆕] - VCF Software Depot Structure Deep Dive for Install & Upgrade williamlam.com/2025/10/vcf-...

#VCF9

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 14d

Beauty of Automation!

Something that would easily take 10, 20 and maybe even 30min for some, all done in under 30secs!

The new #VCF9 Terraform Provider for VCF (VCFA) Automation registry.terraform.io/providers/vm... was on my explore list, got a chance to dabble with it over the weekend

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 14d

So that's why Apple+ kept saying failing all over sudden while watching Invasion ...

William Lam @lamw.bsky.social · 14d

[🆕] - My VCF 9 Lab Mini-Rack williamlam.com/2025/10/my-v...

❤️#VCF9 setup 😁