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Programmatically interact with the Broadcom Product Lifecycle Portal

01.01.2026 by William Lam // 2 Comments

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 VCF 9.0 Operations License Registration & Import for Air-Gapped Environments

09.22.2025 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

License management for both VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 is now handled by VCF Operations, which supports keyless entitlement in both Connected and Disconnected modes.

While Connected mode in VCF Operations offers the simplest user experience for licensing, many customers may opt for the Disconnected mode for a number of reasons.

The two high level workflows for the Disconnected mode in VCF Operations consists of the following:

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

05.19.2025 by William Lam // 2 Comments

?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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