https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87097 – Workaround instructions to address CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046 in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.x (87097) VMware Security Advisory – https://www.vmware.com/security/advis… VMware Response to Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046)
VMware Products Portfolio classified Technology wise – Quick Reference Sheet
Technology Products Description Desktop Hypervisor Fusion Pro Fusion Player Workstation Pro Workstation Player Desktop Hypervisor products from VMware provide IT pros, developers and businesses alike with a powerful local virtualization sandbox to build, run or support apps of any kind. (Can install on local laptop/Desktop) Compute Virtualization vSphere / ESXi vCenter Server vSphere – ESXi […]
vSphere 7 – Demo Upgrade from VCSA 6.5 with Ext PSC to 7.0 | New Features – Update Planner | vCenter Profile | Template Versioning etc.
YouTube Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAWbYCuCzKU New Features in one liner: DRS Enhancement – More focused on VM workload requirement than the cluster. vMotion Enhancement – Reduced Stun Time / Switch-Over phase enhancement. Update Manager is Lifecycle Manager & Update Planner to plan the upgrade. vCenter Profiles (API Driven) – To List / Export / Import / […]
VMware Certifications – VCA / VCP / VCAP / VCIX / VCDX
I know most of you would be interested in completing VMware Certifications. Attaining certifications at regular interval of time will keep you updated with technology. Very importantly if you are part of services organization you need to showcase your strength to VMware to keep progressing in their partner level ladder. Here is the breakdown of […]
vRealize Automation 7.x Network Migration/Change
This is toughest one, I am pretty sure many would have planned to change vRA network to a different network with different Hostname, IP address etc. However due to the complexity very few would have successfully achieved this and many would have dropped this plan. I was able to successfully migrate two different vRA environment […]
Cumulative Update for vRealize Automation 7.6 Fails with Error related to Timezone
I was trying to apply Patch Version: HF4 and the precheck was failing with errors: TimezoneMisMatch – Timezone on the node is ABC Time and the required timezone is XYZ Time ManagementAgent – ManagementAgent is not running, last update was 8 hours ago Screenshots: Seems like this is a known issue while applying the cumulative patch […]
vRealize Automation 8.0.x installation fails with error LCMVRAVACONFIG590003 at VraVaInitialize Task
Seems like this is a known issue, cause this happened to me in my lab on both vRA 8.0 and vRA 8.0.x installation. Firstly, make sure that your vRA, vIDM and vRLCM are able to resolve their DNS both forward and reverse lookup. In my case the issue was not with DNS resolution, however worth […]
VMware Cloud Foundation – High Level Overview
Below is a short summary on VCF – VMware Cloud Foundation and how to setup a demo lab! Introduction: Just like how we evolved from traditional hardware/network/storage approach which was siloed and had to be managed by different team/vendor to CI and HCI infrastructure – which is integrated solution for compute, storage and networking. Similarly, VMware has come up […]
vRealize Automation MSDTC Settings / Port Requirements
Most of us know how important is MSDTC settings during vRA Installation or if we are moving vRA components to new network etc. MSDTC coordinates transactions that update two or more transaction-protected resources, such as databases, message queues, file systems. These transaction-protected resources may be on a single computer, or distributed across many networked computers. […]