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How-To · 2025-04-14

Broadcom Download Token

From now on your vCenter or SDDC Manager needs a unique token. Without it, from the end of April 2025, no patches for VMware software will download any more.

2025-04-14Date

Daniel StadelmannAuthor

1Min read

Topics Virtualization 1.42 Security 1.91

Vendors VMware 0.98

From now on your vCenter or SDDC Manager needs a unique token. Without it, from the end of April 2025, no patches for VMware software will download any more. Switching to the token configuration is straightforward and can be done with a script.

VMware describes the procedure here.

What we are seeing a lot of, though, are people telling us that token generation is not available to them. That is because it needs the “Product Administrator” role in the Broadcom Support Portal.

Getting that permission is fairly simple. If “My Tools” is available on the left, it takes seconds.