A new ESX 9.0.0.0100 patch was recently released to address CVE-2025-41237 and best of all, it is live patchable!
As shared in this blog post from Féidhlim O'Leary, the ESX Live Patching capability has been significantly enhanced with the release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 and while you can use live patching capability from within vCenter Server, I wanted to roll this out using the new Lifecycle Fleet Management capability in VCF Operations 😎
I recently participated in a special VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 event at the Silicon Valley VMUG, which was held at the Broadcom headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
I had a fantastic time at the event, lots of great engagement from attendees, kudos to Frances Wong and the entire VMUG team for putting the event together!
With the huge amount of interests from the community in running VCF 9, I thought this would be a great event to showcase a VCF 9 lab setup using the popular Minisforum MS-A2. The exact same VCF 9 lab setup will also be used for the upcoming VMware {Code} Hackathon at VMware Explore, so definitely sign up if you are interested in playing with the MS-A2 at Explore!
While deploying a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 Fleet, I had observed the VCF Installer task for checking the deployment status for VCF Automation (VCFA) had taken longer than expected and it eventually failed to complete.
While the deployment of VCFA will take some time, especially if you are using consumer grade hardware like I was, I was actually monitoring the granular progress within VCF Operations (VCFO) under Fleet Management->Lifecycle->VCF Management->Tasks and you should see an active task labeled VCF Automation which is representing the deployment of VCFA.
Perhaps it was my impatience ... but I had noticed the VCFA task had already completed but the VCF Installer still did not progress further after waiting maybe 10-15 minutes.
I had the (not so) brilliant idea of attempting to force a re-check of the task by simply rebooting the VCF Installer ...