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William Lam

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

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Maybe its obvious ... but I just noticed ChatGPT REALLY likes to use emojis into its code! I wonder if thats a by-product of its training and/or end user usage? Was looking at someones script, while it works, not always optimal. Having context helps even in Vibe Coding age

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My usage of code generation from ChatGPT/Gemini is still providing the base code (typically) unless its a trivial non-product specific task and then have it wrap/generate "boring" code like conditions for success/retry/etc.

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💡ESXi Host Commissioning in #VCF9 can now be performed directly in the vSphere UI, however it is DEFINITELY not intuitive to locate ... VCF Operations does provide a direct link, but still not obvious Go to Global Inventory Lists->Hosts 😅

💡ESXi Host Commissioning in #VCF9 can now be performed directly in the vSphere UI, however it is DEFINITELY not intuitive to locate ...

VCF Operations does provide a direct link, but still not obvious

Go to Global Inventory Lists->Hosts 😅
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Soundwave 📻 look really dope and he's one of my favorite Transformers! Must resist ... I've been so good for few years now 😅 lego.com/en-us/aboutus/…

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All ready for the special Silicon Valley VMware User Group meetup this Thur (July 17th) hosted at the Broadcom HQ in Palo Alto! 😁 2 x MS-A2 all setup and running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 🔥 👇Register and hope to see you there! my.vmug.com/s/event/a4pVs0… #VCF9

All ready for the special Silicon Valley <a href="/MyVMUG/">VMware User Group</a> meetup this Thur (July 17th) hosted at the <a href="/Broadcom/">Broadcom</a> HQ in Palo Alto! 😁

2 x MS-A2 all setup and running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 🔥

👇Register and hope to see you there!
my.vmug.com/s/event/a4pVs0…

#VCF9
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📣 🆕 ESXi 9.x (⚡ live patchable), 8.x & 7.x is now available!👇 🔹 9.0.0.1 📒 techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-c… 🔸 8.0u3f 📒 techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-c… 🔹 8.0u2e 📒 techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-c… 🔸 7.0u3w 📒 techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-c…

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Looks like Intel's Hybrid CPU Architecture for consumer CPUs haven't panned out ... "Unified Core" coming back wccftech.com/intel-reported…

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#VCF9 introduces a new and more flexible support model and release cadence, definitely give this one a read! blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundati…

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#VCF9 all setup in the Broadcom Briefing Center for the Silicon Valley VMware User Group this afternoon on campus 😎 Super clean setup, if you ask me!? 😁👌

#VCF9 all setup in the <a href="/Broadcom/">Broadcom</a> Briefing Center for the Silicon Valley <a href="/MyVMUG/">VMware User Group</a> this afternoon on campus 😎

 Super clean setup, if you ask me!? 😁👌
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Looking forward to the VMware Explore Hackathon and joining my buddy Alan Renouf 🙌 🤯 Hackathon continues to this day since Alan & I first introduced it Circa 2016 (1st VMware Hackathon at VMworld) 🙏

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Rolling out the new 9.0 Express Patch (9.0.0.0100) which can be live patched ⚡🩹 using #VCF9 Operations! This will probably be done before I can finish a new blog post on this topic ... 😅

Rolling out the new 9.0 Express Patch (9.0.0.0100) which can be live patched ⚡🩹  using #VCF9 Operations!

This will probably be done before I can finish a new blog post on this topic ... 😅
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[🆕] - Applying 1st ESX Live Patch using VCF 9.0 Operations williamlam.com/2025/07/applyi… ⚡🩹 faster than ⌨️ blogging 😅 #VCF9

[🆕] - Applying 1st ESX Live Patch using VCF 9.0 Operations williamlam.com/2025/07/applyi…

⚡🩹 faster than ⌨️ blogging 😅

#VCF9