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VMware Flings is now available in Free Downloads of Broadcom Support Portal (BSP)

05.19.2025 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

📰Minor update coming for Flings next month, you can see the full announcement at https://t.co/Cc4c5ASd2Y

tl;dr - Fling downloads will be re-homed to Broadcom Support Portal (BSP) under Free Downloads, some cleanup will also be done, Flings Community will be for Discussion/QA pic.twitter.com/CV5ifbsZaN

— William Lam (@lamw) April 22, 2025

As shared back in April, the VMware Fling downloads will be migrating to the Free Downloads section within the Broadcom Support Portal (BSP) and this transition has just completed over the weekend. Going forward, any net new or updated VMware Flings will be published on the BSP.

To access the VMware Flings downloads or any other free or entitled software, you will need to register for a free BSP account, which does support personal email addresses (e.g. gmail, yahoo, etc).

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Categories // Uncategorized Tags // Fling

Quick Tip - Using PowerCLI to query VMware Tools Configuration at scale 

10.11.2024 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

One of the most powerful and versatile VM management capability in vSphere is the Guest Operations API, providing a rich set of operations from transferring files to/from the guest to running commands directly on the guest as if you were logged in!

An easy way to consume the Guest Operations API is via PowerCLI and using the Invoke-VMScript cmdlet, which I have extensively written about, showcasing all the creative ways this can be used to solve various automation challenges.

I recently came across a Reddit thread where the OP wanted to check to query for a specific VMware Tools configuration as part of the vSphere Security Configuration Guide and was looking for some help as logging into each and every system did not seem like a good idea, which it is NOT! 🙂

Any time you have a use case where you need to scale a specific operation (reading or writing) a change, you should consider Guest Operations API, you can easily use a single API to perform this operation at scale!

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Categories // Uncategorized Tags // guest operations, PowerCLI, vmware tools

Downgrading new VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) or VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) licenses to 7.x

06.11.2024 by William Lam // 5 Comments

When you access your new VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) or VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) license in the Broadcom Support Portal (BSP), it is delivered using the new solution license key type  which can activate multiple components within a VVF or VCF deployment.

By default, VVF and VCF licenses will come entitled for latest vSphere 8.0 Update 2b and VCF 5.1.1 respectively, because those are the minimum versions that support the new solution license key type. With that said, users can also downgrade their existing VVF and VCF licenses to support earlier vSphere 8.x and 7.x releases using the BSP license management system, which was something I had recently learned about and went through the process myself, so here is what it looks like end-to-end.

Note: License downgrade requires both user downgrade permissions in the BSP license management as well as using non-NFR licenses, which can obtained through the BSP self-service "Trials and Beta" or internally for employees. For NFR licenses, downgrade is not available.

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Categories // Uncategorized, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere Foundation, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0 Tags // license, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere Foundation, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0

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