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‍Wednesday, 7 May 2025 17:51 ‍

Hello Visitor ‍,

Boradcom did it, they PayWalled VMware updates. This newsletter has just two topics:

1. Broadcom PayWalls VMware Updates

2. Installing Proxmox (PVE), Migrating a VM, Building a VM

As always, VMsources is at your service to assist your Organization with any of these topics, feel free to reach-out to me at any time and we’ll schedule a call with the VMsources Team!

Your Infrastructure Specialist,

John Borhek

CEO, Lead Solution Architect

VMsources Group Inc.

Mobile: +1 928.606.0483

Direct-dial office: +1 928.864.0850

Email: john@vmsources.com

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1. Broadcom PayWalls VMware Updates

Beginning April 23 2025, the default URLs used to update vSphere will no longer work as Broadcom has elected to limit future vSphere updates to customers with a valid vSphere subscription/license.

What that means for licensed customers is that you will need to get an unique “token” from Broadcom then update the URLs used for update downloads, both by Lifecycle Manager and the vCenter Server Appliance.

• Please see: https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/390098 

What this means for legacy users continuing to leverage their “perpetual” but expired licenses is that updates for your vSphere environment are likely not available moving forward.

This contradicts a longstanding tradition by VMware of letting all installations download in-version updates regardless of license status.

As always, VMsources is here to help valid license/subscription users apply the correct token/URLs to your vSphere if you need. For users with expired perpetual licenses, VMsources remains on-call for your technical support and MSP needs, however we will be unable to help with patches/updates.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1jins3y/broadcom_setting_paywall_for_vmware_updates/#:~:text=Starting%20March%2024%2C%202025%2C%20there,with%20current%20industry%20best%20practices

2. Migrating to Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE)

There are many great hypervisors/platforms available in the marketplace today. VMsources has selected PVE as our favorite alternative to VMware vSphere and we maintain our own PVE Cloud at both our SV4 and VA1 Data Center Locations (alongside our licensed VMware Cloud) as an alternative for our customers and to support DRaaS for native PVE workloads.

PVE is a robust, versatile and affordable platform which is enterprise proven. Furthermore, PVE will install in-place of other hypervisors (same hardware) and connect to existing storage systems (SAN/NAS) as well as include hyperconverged storage (CEPH) at no additional cost.

PVE also includes a native tool to migrate workloads from VMware.

Getting started with Proxmox: 

1. Download the PVE ISO: https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads/proxmox-virtual-environment/iso 

2. Install PVE

3. Configure Storage

4. Migrate Workloads

5. Build VMs

You can download our Whitepaper here that covers a complete but basic installation, configuration (including iSCSI SAN), Migrate a VM from VMware, and build a VM from scratch:

• https://www.vmsources.com/DOC/A_VMsources_Whitepaper-PVE_Basic.pdf
  

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