9.11.0

Improvements since 9.10.0:

• Clearer host and fleet dashboards, inventory controls, and keyboard navigation.
• More accurate Fibre Channel adapter and port counts.
• Improved storage, SMART, power, memory, and license reporting.
• More hardware evidence and CSV exports, with clearer capture dates.
• Stronger privacy protection in obfuscated offline reports.
• Windows double-click launchers and quiet notices when a newer release is available.

Downloads:

• Python source and offline compatibility data — requires Python 3.9+. On Windows, double-click Launch-VCF-Readiness-Web.bat; on macOS/Linux, run python3 vcfr_web.py.
• macOS executable
• Windows executable

Standalone executables may show macOS Gatekeeper or Windows SmartScreen first-launch notices.

9.10.0

Improvements since 9.9.7:

• Improved Fibre Channel adapter, port, and SAN boot reporting.
• Corrected hardware compatibility links.
• Clearer fleet report tabs and layout in light and dark themes.
• Security fixes for web requests, archive extraction, and XML parsing.
• More reliable Windows startup and offline compatibility matching.

Downloads:

• Python source and offline compatibility data — requires Python 3.9+. Extract and run python3 vcfr_web.py (Windows: python vcfr_web.py).
• macOS executable
• Windows executable

The standalone executables are unsigned; macOS Gatekeeper or Windows SmartScreen may display a first-launch notice.

9.9.7

VCF / vSphere 9.1 HCI Readiness Assessment Tool — Release 9.9.7

Bugfix release v9.9.7 introduces improved Lenovo ThinkSystem handling, a dedicated Lenovo BMC Hardware Security Audit subsystem, interactive BMC credential verification probing, and physical network virtualization offload telemetry.

Key Highlights & Capabilities

• Improved Lenovo Handling:
  • Automatically deduplicates repeated drive endpoints reported by internal Lenovo ThinkSystem M.2 RAID enablement kits (B545i-2i).
  • Extracts multi-tier CPU cache topology (L1/L2/L3) from Oem.Lenovo.CacheInfo with normalized sizing and associativity.
  • Enhances drive SMART wear, endurance, and operational telemetry across SAS/SATA/NVMe controllers.
  • Adds BIOS TCG TPM 2.0 active status verification and Features-on-Demand (FoD) upgrade key fallback.
• Dedicated Lenovo BMC Security Audit Subsystem:
  • Full hardware security audit evaluator for Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC / XCC2 / XCC3).
  • Evaluates BMC firmware currency, TLS configuration, physical presence jumpers, network service exposure, password policies, and security posture scoring.
• Interactive BMC Credential Probing:
  • Web UI session API enables live BMC credential probes with immediate verification and automated session cleanup (DELETE) to protect BMC controller resources.
• Network Virtualization Offload:
  • Corrects adapter-level SR-IOV Virtual Function capacity aggregation from controller capabilities and network device functions.

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Downloads & Packages

• Source Bundle (Recommended): Distribution-VCF-Readiness.zip
  • Complete source code and offline HCL database.
  • Requires Python 3.9+ standard library only (zero pip dependencies).
  • Extract the archive and launch: python3 vcfr_web.py
• Windows Executable: VCF-Readiness-Web-v9.9.7-win.zip
  • Optional standalone convenience executable for Windows (double-click to launch).
• macOS Application: VCF-Readiness-Web-v9.9.7-mac.zip
  • Optional standalone convenience executable for macOS (includes launcher script).

9.9.6

Bugfix release v9.9.6 enhances fleet summary and host report visual presentation with subtle card theming tokens, dark mode palette alignments, resource metric cards, and guidance box styling for capacity analysis.

Distribution-VCF-Readiness.zip is the complete source bundle and offline HCL database, and is the preferred way to run the tool (requires Python 3.9+ standard library only — zero pip dependencies). Install Python, extract the archive, and run python3 vcfr_web.py.

Optional unsigned standalone convenience binaries for Windows and macOS are also provided.

9.9.5

Bugfix release v9.9.5 introduces vSAN ESA 10GbE Small Profile sizing and ≥20TB node capacity upgrade recommendations, canonical documentation URL updates, inventory table refinements, and scanner improvements.

Distribution-VCF-Readiness.zip is the complete source bundle and offline HCL database, and is the preferred way to run the tool (requires Python 3.9+ standard library only — zero pip dependencies). Install Python, extract the archive, and run python3 vcfr_web.py.

Optional unsigned standalone convenience binaries for Windows and macOS are also provided.

9.9.4

Number of improvements bugfixes, and simplification of the scanner UI.

VCFR.zip is the source directory, and is the preferred way to run the tool. Install Python first, and then run vcfr_web.py.
Optionally there is an unsigned .exe.

VCF Readiness 9.8.3

Full Changelog: v9.8.2...v9.8.3

VCF Readiness 9.8.2

This is the first public beta release of VCF Readiness!

The project was born out of conversations with Kalyan Krishnaswamy and Phong Le about "how do we make it easy for customers to reuse hardware for VCF".

It started with HCL validation (checking servers, NICs, CPUs, Server Chassis, Drives) against the VMware HCL, but expanded to known misconfigurations, security hardening checks, health status, and a general purpose inventory tool.

I've taken inspiration from other projects over the years like Spiceworks (who showed me that inventory tooling didn't have to be ugly or painful), the vCommunity hardware project, RVtools, and DPACK (Proving that a simple pre-sales tool can be an anything tool if you try hard enough).

I'd like to thank everyone who's helped get this to the intial release and look froward to feedback!