Tag: vmware
VMware Evangelist of the Year 2023, Singapore!
This is truly a surprise to me! VMware recognizes their partners, appreciates them, and motivates them with such awards. Happy to receive VMware Evangelist of the Year 2023, Singapore!
VMware vSphere+ at First Glance | Live Demo
I learnt about vSphere+ 15 days trail and wanted to explore the options and how to setup etc. Took this opportunity to make a video as well! Important links: —————–vSphere+ Product Documentation: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere+/services/vsphereplus-getting-started/GUID-E64F5E6C-E4A3-411D-9787-161D24E73D04.html VMware Product Interoperability Matrix: https://interopmatrix.vmware.com/Interoperability?col=1217,&row=2,%261 VMware Core Based Licensing: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/89116 vSphere+ Trail: https://vmc.vmware.com/infrastructure/vsphere-plus/overview vSphere+ Hands-on Lab (HOL): https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/evalcenter?p=vsphereplus-hol-overview-23
ESXi OpenSLP heap-overflow vulnerability CVE-2021-21974
Please take a note on this on priority if you are in VMware project or managing VMware infrastructure. This is the talk over the weekend, potential ransomware attack on VMware ESXi Servers. I have simplified the table with the base build number with fix for ease of validating your environment. Note: This article covers only […]
Upgrade VMware ESXi 7.x to 8.x (Nested) with Live Troubleshooting
This is a long video but it has some troubleshooting steps and couple of approaches I used to Upgrade ESXi from 7.x to 8.x. This will be a treat for folks running nested ESXi and running into issues like below: – The CPU on the host is not supported by this image – How to […]
Upgrade VMware vCenter Server from 7.x to 8.x
In this video I have performed live upgrade of vCenter Server from 7.x to 8.x. I also hit the issue outlined in this article: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Upgrade-Install/VCSA-upgrade-6-7-to-7-0-fails-on-Stage-2-step-1-at-50-with-quot/td-p/2868120 – “Unable to authenticate user”
Uninstall and Reinstall VMware Site Recovery Manager & vSphere Replication 8.5
We might face a situation where we need to uninstall and reinstall VMware Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication. In my case the vApp properties of both SRM and Replication appliance was disabled and this would cause issues during upgrade etc. So had to sort this out before upgrade, as per VMware GSS we had […]
Migrating VMware VMs from old VMware Infrastructure to new
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)