Many admins has already uses vSphere 8 since long time. As a result, many of you have already got the whole vSphere 8.x documentation set, with all those PDFs etc. However, if you are looking to download those files right now, you won't find them easily as broadcom decomissionned the “legacy” docs.vmware.com site and put a redirection.
So, when googling for it via let's say: “vsphere 8 pdf installation”, you'll get it one of the first Google search results:
However, when you click the link, behind this sits a nasty redirection to https://techdocs.broadcom.com/ where you do not find it…. -:(
Solution to find older vSphere documentation PDFs?
I'm sure that you have already used this site in the past. It's called Wayback machine and the url is https://web.archive.doc
They definitely deserve few bucks of donation if you can afford that!
Like this, I found the whole product documentation for vSphere 8.x (but also 7.x and 6.x).
https://web.archive.org/web/20241217164518/https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/index.html
Kudos to them!
I hope it helps -:).
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I found easy https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsphere/vsphere/8-0/esxi-installation-and-setup-8-0.html
Yes, you get to a HTML formatted page where there is the PDF download button. However, the Broadcom’s document formatting isn’t perfect (VMware doc is easier to read) and images are cut on the right side. So, personally, I prefer to keep the originals. Just in case, even thought the VMware original docs might miss the references to the latest U3 fixes. Anyways, thanks for the comment.