William Lam

Distinguished Platform Engineering Architect @Broadcom • 📢 Customer Advocate • 🧑‍💻 Technologist • 🖊️ Blogger • 👨‍👧‍👦 Father • 🧗‍♂️ Spartan Races

[William Lam @lamw]

$ uptime
up 15 years, load average: still learning, innovating & advocating

[William Lam @lamw]

🛳️ VKS 3.8 is now available! Check out RN for what's new including support for k8s 1.37, in-place upgrade policies & support for new #VCF911 VLAN-backed VPC to just name a few 🎉

📔 https://t.co/vPXQudr6Q6

JFYI - VKS 3.8 support has also been added to VCF Upgrade Planner Tool!

[William Lam @lamw]

[🆕] - Major Enhancements to VCF 9.1 Upgrade Planner Tool https://t.co/xuQXXGIBnt

#VCF91

[William Lam @lamw]

👇Very good watch on NUMA enhancements in #VCF91 to address high core count/chiplets for Intel/AMD CPUs. Best part, no operational/config changes, upgrade to 9.1 to get 🚀 scheduler!

Unlocking Performance w/Next-Gen Topology-Aware CPU Scheduler in VCF https://t.co/zd3USgVYvP

[William Lam @lamw]

Since this was recently asked ... In addition to Intel Haswell/Broadwell processors no longer being supported, you also can NOT use them with #VCF91 NVMe Tiering, you will need at least Skylake or newer processor

[William Lam @lamw]

👏 Super dope to see how easy VMware vDefend + Avi can neutralize the recent PHP2Shell vulnerabilities! 💪🛡️

https://t.co/ewZiiV5Chh

[William Lam @lamw]

JFYI - #VCF components do NOT use PHP and is NOT affected by yesterdays vulnerability disclosure: CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619

https://t.co/Thxr63l9Kv

[William Lam @lamw]

👇Handy for those who use Codex!

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

If you are wondering whether your website is affected, we have packaged a Codex skill to help check.

Point your Codex at this repo to guide you through it: https://t.co/XUEbOwXuQC

[William Lam @lamw]

Whether you're running WP or any web apps that depend on PHP, make sure to apply the latest version that fixes the critical RCE vulnerability. Also, good time to ensure underlying OS is also up to date!

[WordPress @WordPress]

The PHP project has released fixes for 2 critical vulnerabilities affecting servers that host PHP applications. Site owners and technical teams should confirm their hosting provider’s update plan and update PHP immediately. Versions before PHP 8.2 no longer receive security updates. These issues are not specific to WordPress, and no WordPress update is required. https://t.co/2Bgok9Vdcq

[William Lam @lamw]

@GreguKulikowski @paulbraren Very slick! I've not used NUCs for some time now, but I'm sure for those that still do, this could be pretty nifty

Do you have more details somewhere and versions supported?

[William Lam @lamw]

[🆕] - VCF 9.1.1 - New UI Support for Deploying VCF Management Services (VCFMS) & VCF Automation (VCFA) on Non-Management Networks https://t.co/YdRYdheXVW

#VCF911

[William Lam @lamw]

💪 Got back a few gigs 😁

[m@ttias ⚡️ @mattiasgeniar]

Freed up ~50GB of disk space on my Mac with;

$ yarn cache clean (26 GB)
$ uv cache clean (11 GB)
$ npm cache clean --force (10 GB)
$ brew cleanup -s (2GB)
$ pip3 cache purge (1GB)

[William Lam @lamw]

📢 VCF 9.1.1 EP1 is now available for all VCF components (vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SDDCm, VCF Ops & VCF Automation)

📔 https://t.co/vCdsJ5wA2B

💿 https://t.co/QqqR9EhOtv

#VCF911

[William Lam @lamw]

Unifi MCP Server FTW 🙌

Initial setup is super easy, but 🔥wall rules ... lets let AI handle 🧠🤖

[William Lam @lamw]

Where have I been all this time!?! Ubiquity UnfiOS is👌

Upgrading home WiFi network 😁

[William Lam @lamw]

🤙 vSAN ESA 😎

#VCF911

[William Lam @lamw]

[🆕] - VCF Agentic AI Hub (Code Assist) MCP Server Fling https://t.co/TKrTacx5QE

☝️Many of you've asked for an official VMware MCP Server, check out this new Fling 🧠👏

[William Lam @lamw]

[🆕] - Automate Inventory of vSphere Supervisor Clusters & vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) Guest Clusters https://t.co/sgexPZiaKR

#VKS

[William Lam @lamw]

[🆕] - VCF 9.1.1 - OCuLink External Graphics (eGPU) Dock with integrated PSU for GPU Passthrough with VKS https://t.co/vBp0hI5u1q

#VCF911 💪🤖🧠

[William Lam @lamw]

s/Private AI/Private SI 😅