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:
?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).
I recently deployed OPNsense in my homelab, which I will be using it to setup my VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment. A critical part infrastructure service that is often miss-configured is DNS and OPNsense provides a simple way add your custom DNS entries (forward/reverse) called Host Overrides, which uses Unbound DNS behind the scenes.
Like most, I have a number of DNS entries that I would like to pre-create and the UI is not exactly the quickest for any type of "bulk" operation as each entry is added sequentially.
Luckily, OPNsense does have a REST API for Unbound functions, but the documentation was not very useful as it just direct users to use the browser to extract the JSON payload, while something I am comfortable with, I think that is not what I expected from something called an API Reference ...
In any case, this was a simple enough API, that I was able to create a quick PowerShell script to parse a CSV file that contains the list of FQDN, IP Address and Description and then perform a bulk create since the API itself was also sequential in nature 🙁