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VMware Flings are back!

12.14.2023 by William Lam // 15 Comments

In addition to the big announcements from yesterday on major simplification of the new VMware by Broadcom offers and licensing modelย and the new chapter for the VMware Desktop Hypervisor products, I have one more piece of exciting news that I would like to share with our users, just in time for the holidays! ?

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Categories // ESXi, Home Lab, NSX, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Tanzu, VSAN, vSphere Tags // Fling

vSphere Code Capture is your ChatGPT for vSphere Automation

11.30.2023 by William Lam // 1 Comment

Have you ever tried to automate a specific vSphere operation but were sure which vSphere API to use or if known, how to actually use it? This is something I frequently see and get asked about quite often!

Did you know about this hidden little gem that has been available since vSphere 6.7, built right into the vSphere UI that can help with these questions!?


It is called vSphere Code Capture or what I typically refer to as your ChatGPT for vSphere Automation, but without the hallucinations ๐Ÿ˜€

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Categories // vSphere Tags // Code Capture, vSphere API, vSphere UI

VMware Flings Update

10.26.2023 by William Lam // 25 Comments

This has been a difficult week for all VMware employees due to the pending acquisition of VMware by Broadcom. Many VMware employees are still waiting to hear back from Broadcom about their employment status either before and/or after the planned acquisition close date. I wanted to provide this context before sharing a quick update regarding the VMware Flings program.

On Tuesday October 24th, VMware Fling authors was made aware that the VMware Flings site (flings.vmware.com) would be taken down and website would simply be redirected to developer.vmware.com/samples starting on Thursday October 26th.

?? PSA - Folks, if you need particular VMware Fling, please download it NOW. On Thur (10/26), the site will no longer exists & simply redirected to Sample Exchange, where you may find some but most will not be there including some of mines. Hoping this is temp. but not sure https://t.co/vdz9uWAFvy

— William Lam (@lamw.bsky.social | @*protected email*) (@lamw) October 24, 2023

The VMware Flings program was operated and run by VMware's Office of the CTO (OCTO) and while I do not have specifics on why it needed to go down, I tried my best to share out the news as broadly and as quickly as I could so that folks could at least grab what they needed. While the original notice mentioned the site would function up until 10/26 at 5pm PST, it looks VMware IT had already made the DNS changes and the redirect has already been propagated.

As of right now, I do not know the future of the VMware Flings program, but I did want to share a few updates since the site and its downloads are no longer available.

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Categories // ESXi, ESXi-Arm, Kubernetes, VMware Tanzu, VSAN, vSphere Tags // Fling

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William is Distinguished Platform Engineering Architect in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Division at Broadcom. His primary focus is helping customers and partners build, run and operate a modern Private Cloud using the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform.

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