Broadcom removed the public VMware VDDK downloads that migration tooling depends on

Sources: report, discussion
Summary: The Broadcom download pages for the VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit now return errors, and Broadcom has published no announcement, deprecation notice, or replacement. The change was first written up by ShapeBlue on 2026-08-25, with a Red Hat support article on 2026-08-27 that directs customers to contact Broadcom support to request access, and a Platform9 post on 2026-09-01. Azure Migrate, Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization, Nutanix Move, virt-v2v and nbdkit all require the VDDK for agentless VMware migration.
Why it matters: Teams mid-migration off VMware now need a support request to obtain the copy path their tooling is built on, with no public vendor statement to plan against.
Follow-up: Track a Broadcom statement, a restored download path, or a documented replacement interface.