Your VMware Exit Plan Assumed a Tool You Didn't Control
A VMware exit plan usually treats the migration tooling as a given — something you download, install, and use, not something you have to keep asking permission for. In late August, the public self-service path to the Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) stopped working. No deprecation notice. No public transition announcement. A download path that migration documentation had relied on returned an…
VMware migration tools relied on VDDK until its public distribution path suddenly stopped working. This affected migration and backup vendors that depended on the tool. Broadcom removed the public self-service distribution path for VDDK, causing Red Hat, Nutanix, and Platform9 to direct users to Broadcom Support instead. The tool itself hasn't disappeared, but its obtainability has changed under Broadcom's control relationship.
This means organizations that relied on the public self-service path for VDDK now face an unexpected dependency change in their VMware exit plans.
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