William Lam

Automated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 Lab Deployment Script

09.02.2025 by William Lam // 4 Comments

Now that VMware Explore Las Vegas has concluded, I finally have a small breather to publish my Automated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 Lab Deployment Script, which utilizes Nested ESXi running on an existing physical vSphere environment, as shown in the diagram below.

I know many of you have used previous versions of my automated lab deployment scripts, so this should feel quite familiar along with some enhancements including the ability to externalize the environment configuration parameters from the actual deployment script.

You can find all the details and documentation at the following Github repo:

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On-Demand session URLs for VMware Explore Las Vegas 2025

08.28.2025 by William Lam // 1 Comment

As I recently shared on LinkedIn ...

In addition to meeting with a TON of customers about their path to VCF 9.0, I also had several breakouts sessions.

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Updated Nested ESXi 8.x & 9.0 Virtual Appliance

08.24.2025 by William Lam // 23 Comments

Happy Sunday! Before the wave of announcements starts rolling out from VMware Explore Las Vegas, which starts tomorrow, I wanted to share a quick update. 😅

I have been pretty swamped for the past couple of months, so it has taken a bit more time to get the latest Nested ESXi Virtual Appliances published, but here are the latest 8.0 Update 3 and 9.0 versions. I have included the direct links to the download but also the intermediate Broadcom Support Portal (BSP) links for those interested in bookmarking these pages.

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