Broadcom’s VM API lets organizations provision and manage virtual machines through Kubernetes, the platform widely used to orchestrate containers. The open-source project has been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s Sandbox for early-stage projects. It aims to provide a common way to manage VMs across different infrastructure providers without replacing existing virtualization investments.

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Broadcom will keep vSphere Standard 8 and Enterprise Plus 8 available in the European Economic Area (EEA) through October 31, 2027, with extended support for eligible subscriptions lasting as late as October 31, 2028. The move adds a European exception to the portfolio update that introduced vSphere Express for smaller environments.

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VMware’s new vSphere Express server-virtualization product supports up to 128 processor cores and will cost significantly less than its enterprise offerings, the company says. It includes live VM migration, automatic restarts for failed VMs, and non-disruptive patching. The move gives smaller organizations an alternative to VMware’s more complex, higher-end products.

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VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), Broadcom’s private-cloud platform for virtual machines, containers, and AI, is gaining new deployment, security, and recovery features. For smaller environments, Broadcom has launched vSphere Express, an essential virtualization package for up to 128 cores. The expanded services portfolio also includes HyperArmor, Broadcom’s ESX protection add-on, which uses virtual patching and multifactor authentication for SSH access.

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OpenVDDK is an open-source library that lets backup and migration tools read VMware virtual disks. Built to replace VMware’s libvixDiskLib.so.8.0.3, it matches the original library’s interface and is designed to work with tools that expect VDDK. Its creator reports tests on four vSphere versions and use by independent testers in several migration workflows.

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