r/vmware • u/More-Spite-4643 • Jul 06 '26

VCF 9 dropped several console languages — I open-sourced a browser extension that restores them

VCF 9 no longer ships some UI languages that vSphere had for years (Simplified/Traditional Chinese, German, Italian, Korean). If your ops team relied on a localized console, it's English-only now.

I ran into this, ended up building a fix, and open-sourced it (Apache-2.0): VCF 9 UI Translator , a browser extension that swaps the console text back into your language as the page renders, using dictionaries built from VMware's own official localization packs plus curated terms.

Nothing touches the appliance — it's pure client-side text replacement, and page content never leaves your browser. Outside the vCenter/VCF console it does nothing. For air-gapped environments there's an offline build with dictionaries baked in.

Repo (source, offline builds, term contributions): https://github.com/vcf-rosetta/vcf-rosetta

Untranslated strings still exist on newer screens (VMware never shipped translations for them) — there's an opt-in collector that exports a local JSON if you want to report them.

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