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Deploying VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9.1 in a Lab
Guest post · James Tiffany
When it comes to installing your VVF environment you have two options available. The first, and most common, is to use the VCF Installer. Don't let the name faze you, the same installer that deploys VCF will also deploy VVF for you. The great thing about doing it this way is the level of automation you get, this process will deploy vCenter, VCFMS, VCF Operations and the License server...
Installing and Activating VMware Intelligent Assist in VCF Operations
So last week during VMware Explore in Las Vegas, a new feature was announced, VMware Intelligent Assist!
Latest News from the Web
vsphere provider 2.18.0 lands, bringing Supervisor namespaces fully into Terraform
- Keep the Brotli workaround on SDDC Manager, and get the ESX logging fix in by tomorrow. VMSA-2026-0008.1 still shows "Patch pending" for every SDDC Manager version, so KB 460732 on 9.1.1 (or KB 460734 on 5.2.x, 9.0.x and 9.1.0) is what's protecting you. Press reports put the US federal deadlines at today for the Brotli flaw and tomorrow, 11 November, for ESX CVE-2026-41709, whose fixed builds are in the VMSA-2026-0006 matrix.
- Rewrite storage_policies as storage_policy blocks before you move to vsphere provider 2.18.0. The 2.18.0 release replaces the attribute on vsphere_namespace and its data source, and PR #2789 says Terraform will fail at plan or apply on the old schema rather than change anything. Keep ~> 2.17 pinned until the namespace code is updated, then take the release for its new zone, permission and network options.
- If you have Alpine-based jump hosts or containers running sshd, patch OpenSSH now. The "SSHole" flaw CVE-2026-123158 only affects musl-based builds with PAM disabled, Alpine's default server setup among them, per The Hacker News. Press reports say CISA added it to its KEV catalogue on 9 November with a 12 November federal deadline (tech-insider). Broadcom hasn't published a statement on it.
- Security No new VMSA
- Releases & KBs All quiet
- Terraform & Packer vsphere 2.18.0 is out
- Next deadline Today
Code Projects
VMware Explore 2024 Hackathon Winning team
Project and code from the Las Vegas hackathon at VMware Explore 2024.
Simplify VCF Deployment & Operations with Terraform
Session code with examples for deploying VCF and common post-bring-up tasks.
Automating VCF Day 1 Operations
Session code covering Day 1 actions via the API and PowerVCF.
Presentations
Every slide deck and demo from the events I've been lucky enough to present at.