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Useful Links for VMware by Broadcom Day 2 Transition

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While today, May 6th, 2024 marks the completion of the "Day 2" transition where VMware's backend system has been migrated to Broadcom's backend system, it may still take a few days for all the new systems to fully settle with such a large migration project. There are also some planned post-Day 2 updates that are still pending for some web properties, so you may see additional updates towards end of the week as well.

With a large number of VMware web properties changing including some being retired and/or kept exactly the same, I have been collecting various links that customers, partners and employees may find useful. I will continue to make updates to this page as new or updated information is provided, so be sure to bookmark to stay up to date.

I have also recently published these follow-up blog posts that users might find useful as well:

Note: Some downloads will require an active entitlement while others may not. You can check back later this week as I know not all downloads may be showing up immediately.

Change Log:

  • 12/04/24 - Added link for downloading VCF Holodeck Toolkit
  • 12/02/24 - Added links for new vSphere Health Analyzer (vHA)
  • 10/31/24 - Added updated links for ConfigMax, Interop Matrix, TechZone & VMware HCL
  • 05/30/24 - Added new Partner Portal link
  • 05/28/24 - Added VMware Product Guide replacement
  • 05/23/24 - Added GCA contact form
  • 05/21/24 - Added link to SiteID request tool
  • 05/11/24 - Added link to VMware Marketplace
  • 05/09/24 - Added updated Horizon Client download links
  • 05/08/24 - Added Per-Division Security Advisory links
  • 05/07/24 - Add Patch download links

Updated Websites:

Existing Websites (No Changes for now):

Quick Tip - Block or remove download URL for VMware Enhanced Authentication Plug-in (EAP)

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There was a new VMware Security Advisory (VMSA-2024-0003) that was published this week that affects the deprecated VMware Enhanced Authentication Plug-in (EAP) and as part of the remediation, per VMware KB 96442, there are instructions on how to uninstall the EAP plugin from desktop systems that had it installed.

I also noticed there were also questions from the community about disabling the EAP download itself, which is available as a hyperlink from the vSphere UI login page as shown in the screenshot below.


Having spent some time exploring and customizing the vSphere UI login page back in 2015, I knew there were a few ways of either blocking and/or removing the download URL all together, so I figure I would put together the list of options depending on what users were comfortable with.

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Automating certificate-manager CLI operations in vCenter Server (VCSA)

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I recently had a customer inquiry where they were interested in automating the certificate replacement for vCenter Solution Users when using the /usr/lib/vmware-vmca/bin/certificate-manager CLI, which is found within the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA).


Note: One important thing to understand is that with vSphere 7.0, the vCenter Solution User certificates have been deprecated and the ability to replace the internal certificates will be removed in a future release as mentioned in the referenced vSphere blog post.

VMware does not recommend replacing the internal vCenter Solution User certificates, but for users who may have an organization requirement to do so, the operation is performed interactively using the certificate-manager CLI as mentioned earlier.

By design, the certificate-manager is meant to be consumed interactively and any non-interactive or automated use cases is not possible ...

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