VCF 9.1 on My Cloudy World

VCF Installer APIs: Connect VCF Installer to the Broadcom Depot

gblake@jadenetworks.co.uk (Gary Blake) — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Before you can begin deploying VMware Cloud Foundation, you first configure the VCF Installer to connect to the Broadcom Depot. In order to do this you must first obtain your unique download token from the VCF Business Services Console , once you have your download token you can proceed with setting up the VCF Installer.

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VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 Now Available: Key Links

gblake@jadenetworks.co.uk (Gary Blake) — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Excited to share that VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation 9.1 are now available for download, here are a number of useful links, if you have not already seen or read the news release please see News Release that was posted following last weeks launch event.

VMware Cloud Foundation

Tooling

VMware vSphere Foundation

VMware vSphere Foundation Download Site

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1: VCF Installer What's New

gblake@jadenetworks.co.uk (Gary Blake) — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, there comes a new version of the VCF Installer. This release introduces a lot of new capabilities so lets dig into the details of what's new. For the purpose of this post I've broken these down into the following key areas.

Progress Bar
Deployment Paths
Plan Section
Prepare Section

Progress Bar

The first big change involves an overhaul of the general workflow where a new progress bar has been added covering four key stages Introduction, Plan, Prepare and Deploy. Once a stage has been completed, you move into the next stage of the progress bar. These stage markers can also be used as navigation allowing you to return to a previous stage if needed, this reduces the number backward clicks required compared to the previous release.

VCF Installer APIs: Validating Your JSON Using VCF Installer

gblake@jadenetworks.co.uk (Gary Blake) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The first step to automating the deployment of a new VMware Cloud Foundation platform is the creation and validation of your JSON specification file. This JSON specification file describes the environment to be configured.

There are a few ways in which you can build your JSON specification file, probably the easiest is through the use of the Planning and Preparation Workbook and a PowerShell utility my friend and colleague Ken Gould created called VCF.JSONGenerator (for a full rundown of the tool see Ken's blog post Introducing the VCF.JSONGenerator PowerShell Module for VMware Cloud Foundation ).

VCF Installer APIs: Download Binaries from Broadcom Depot

gblake@jadenetworks.co.uk (Gary Blake) — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 APIs: Obtaining Authentication Tokens

gblake@jadenetworks.co.uk (Gary Blake) — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Last Updated: 24-Jun-2026

Interacting with the public APIs of a VMware Cloud Foundation platform enables organizations to build custom end-to-end automation for their needs. The first step in the process involves obtaining an authentication token. A VMware Cloud Foundation platform consists of a number of core end points, each requiring slightly different parameters to carry out the interaction.

Whilst public API documentation is available across the VMware Cloud Foundation platform (see developer.broadcom.com ), concrete examples of how to consume the various APIs is either not consistent or lacking, for this reason I decided to pull together this post to help with the specifics, this post covers the following end-points: