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Programmatically interact with the Broadcom Product Lifecycle Portal

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Happy New Year! 🎉 Kicking off 2026 with my first blog post of the year 😁

Customers can use the Broadcom Product Lifecycle portal to search for products across the seven Broadcom Software Divisions and view their current support status: Supported, Unsupported, End of Service (EOS), or End of Life (EOL).

While the product lifecycle portal is straightforward to use, there are customer use cases for retrieving this information for automation purposes, such as updating an internal change management database (CMDB) to performing an inventory of your deployed Broadcom software to understand which versions might could be affected from a support standpoint.

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Automating License Entitlement Workflows between VCF Operations & VCF Business Service Console (BSC)

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In an air-gapped or disconnected environment, license entitlement for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) involves a multi-step file exchange between the VCF Business Service Console (BSC) and your deployed VCF Operations instance.

Below is a visual that outlines the workflow between VCF BSC (red) and VCF Operations (orange):

Note: This workflow is also applicable to VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) deployments as well.

For organizations managing multiple VCF Fleet deployments, automation is essential to operating at scale. Back in September, I had written a blog post that demonstrated some of the VCF Operations APIs that can be used to address the orange boxes above, but that was only half the solution.

However, the steps outlined in the red boxes were not covered and a recent question came up on whether those operations could also be automated?

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Dynamically Rebalance or Evacuate VKS Control Plane / Worker Nodes across vSphere Zones in VCF 9.0

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vSphere Zones in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 have been enhanced to offer greater flexibility in resource consumption and isolation for both vSphere Supervisor Control Plane VMs (Management), vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) Cluster (Workloads) or a combination of the two.


Depending on your required level of management availability and workload isolation, administrations have several vSphere Supervisor Zone deployment options to select from:

Note: The management zone selection (single vs multi) is only configurable during the initial enablement of vSphere Supervisor. It is currently NOT possible to reconfigure the vSphere Supervisor to switch from a single to multi-zone management without re-deploying vSphere Supervisor.

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