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Team! Happy belated Thanksgiving to all of you! We’re officially one day post-Turkey Day. I hope the day, food, and time with the family was as great for you as it was for me. We have a tradition of going to this state park that is about a 30-minute drive from the house after dinner …
What is the vExpert Program and How Has It Benefitted Me? Read More »
Team! It feels good to be able to type up a post! It’s been a bit and most of my free time has been allocated to the VCDX process. Shout out to my study group friends Jesper, Kyle, and Gio! Soon, I’ll start writing up the experiences that we have all encountered so that I …
Team! This just in! Today, VMware released an advisor to all users of vCenter and/or VMware Cloud Foundations for two different vulnerabilities found in both the vCenter Server VMware Cloud Foundation (vCenter) products – a remote code execution (labeled as CRITICAL with a rating of 9.8) and an authentication mechanism issue (labeled as MODERATE with …
New vCenter and VCF Vulnerability Discovered with 6.5 – 9.8 CVSSv3 Rating! Read More »
Team: I haven’t had the time lately to get a fairly in-depth post going. I’ve been focusing on a bit of study work because I had to nail down my final VCAP-DCV test to acquire my VCIX-DCV (BOOM!), and start drilling down for the VCDX-DCV. Yes, you heard it here first. I plan to make …
Team: Yesterday on my LinkedIn I announced that VMware had just release a security advisory that affected vRealize Business for Cloud. This vulnerability got a whopping 9.8 as a CSSv3 base score. If you’re not familiar with how vulnerabilities are rated, that equates to “you should remediate this situation….now!” The max score is a 10, …
vRealize Business for Cloud – Critical 9.8 / 10 Vulnerability Read More »
Team: Real quick! VMware announce a newly discovered vulnerability in NSX-T 3.1 that weighs in at a base score of 7.5 of 10 in CSSSv3, giving it an ‘Important’ label. This particular exploit will allow unauthorized privilege escalation through the local ‘guest’ account. The Workaround Luckily, this one doesn’t make you jump through hoops, stand …
Team! This is a “quickie, but goodie” post that I wanted to share with everyone. A project that we’re currently working on for a client is a massive migration of VMs into a VCF environment. During some of the migrations we hit a handful of VMs where we would get this error message: The virtual …
Team! Two days ago VMware announced that vSphere 7.0 Update 2 is now generally available! This release is packed with a bunch of great features, as always! There’s one the really hit home with me too. I’ve already had a few discussions with some people about it and, for me, the introduction of the Native …
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 – Native Key Provider Read More »
Team! Hey everyone! It’s Monday, but for some reason I already thought it was Tuesday. Must be one of those weeks already! ? A lot of talk regarding security recently. Whether it’s additional findings and what’s to come of the SolarWinds breach, another side-channel attack in Intel processors, or these critical and important vulnerabilities found …
VMware vCenter, VCF, and ESXi Critical/Important Vulnerabilities Read More »
Team! Storage, storage, storage. Good ol’ storage. Can’t live without it and…well, that’s about it. If you’re relying on SAN storage for your VMware infrastructure, then I have a few questions for you: Why aren’t you using, or at least considering, vSAN? 😀 (ping me directly and we can have a nice chat about it!) …
