I was part of a big migration project for a customer who has different types of VMware VMs: These VMs had to be migrated from exiting vSphere 6.5 environment to new vSphere 7.x/8.x environment. Note: Both the old and new infrastructure was having the same storage presented, however customer wanted to use different datastores for […]
Scenarios for RDM to VMDK Migration & Conversion
Difference between physical and virtual mode RDM is only the way VM interacts to RDM, in Physical mode the commands from VM is direct to RDM no interference at hypervisor level, so snapshot is not possible. In Virtual mode, we can take snapshots of VMs. There are some more limitations physical vs virtual but snapshot […]
Patching VMware vRealize Log Insight for Log4j Vulnerability | CVE-2021-44228 & CVE-2021-45046
https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-L… – Release notes https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87089 – Workaround instructions to address CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046 in vRealize Log Insight (87089) VMware Security Advisory – https://www.vmware.com/security/advis… VMware Response to Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046)
Patching VMware vRealize Operations for Log4j Vulnerability | CVE-2021-44228 & CVE-2021-45046
https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-O… – Release notes https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87076 – Workaround instructions to address CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046 in vRealize Operations 8.x (87076) VMware Security Advisory – https://www.vmware.com/security/advis… VMware Response to Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046)
Patching VMware vRealize Automation for Log4j Vulnerability | CVE-2021-44228 & CVE-2021-45046
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87120 – Workaround instructions to address CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046 in vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator 8.x (87120) VMware Security Advisory – https://www.vmware.com/security/advis… VMware Response to Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046)
Patching VMware Identity Manager for Log4j Vulnerability | CVE-2021-44228 & CVE-2021-45046
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87185 – HW-150541: VMSA-2021-0028, VMSA-2021-0030 for VMware Identity Manager (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-22056) (87185) https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87093 – Workaround Instructions to address CVE-2021-44228 in VMware Identity Manager 3.3.X (87093) VMware Security Advisory – https://www.vmware.com/security/advis… VMware Response to Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046)
Patching vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager for Log4j Vulnerability | CVE-2021-44228 & CVE-2021-45046
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 / […]