{"id":1669,"date":"2025-06-04T21:49:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T02:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zewwy.ca\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2025-06-04T21:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T02:49:34","slug":"vmware-changes-update-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/vmware-changes-update-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Changes Update URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you run a home lab, or manage systems for companies you may have noticed updates not working in VAMI&#8230; something like&#8230;. Ohhh I dunno.. this:<\/p>\n<p>Check the URL and try again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/WNrgpS9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/WNrgpS9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knowledge.broadcom.com\/external\/article\/390120\">Unable to patch the vCenter via VAMI as it fails to download the updates from Broadcom public repositories<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-detail-card-header\">\n<h4 class=\"wolken-h4\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Cause\"><\/span>Cause<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_77 ez-toc-wrap-right counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-black ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\"><p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<\/div><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/vmware-changes-update-urls\/#Cause\" >Cause<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-detail-card-content wolken-h5\">\n<p><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor=\"\">Public facing repository URLs and authentication mechanisms are changing. Download URLs are no longer common but unique for each customer therefore will require to be re-configured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; wow thank you Broadcom for being so&#8230; amazing.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to be overly confused about the whole thing you can this this KB: <a href=\"https:\/\/knowledge.broadcom.com\/external\/article\/389276\">Authenticated Download Configuration Update Script<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the original link I shared above all you have to do is login to the Broadcom support portal, and get a token, and edit the URL&#8230;. but&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>The custom URL is not preserved post migration upgrade, FBBR restore and VCHA failover<\/li>\n<li>If there is a proxy device configured between vCenter and the internet, ensure it is configured to allow communications to the new URL<\/li>\n<li>Further patches automatically update this URL. For example, if 8.0.3.00400 is patched to 8.0.3.00500, the default URL will change to end in 8.0.3.00500.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looks like this was enforced just a couple days ago &#8230; Sooooo, happy patching?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you run a home lab, or manage systems for companies you may have noticed updates not working in VAMI&#8230; something like&#8230;. Ohhh I dunno.. this: Check the URL and try again. Unable to patch the vCenter via VAMI as it fails to download the updates from Broadcom public repositories Cause Public facing repository URLs &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/vmware-changes-update-urls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VMware Changes Update URLs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,8],"tags":[463,327,16],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypervisors","category-infosec","category-server-administration","tag-patching","tag-updates","tag-vcenter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}