Dirmann Technology Consultants

Paul Dirmann

Paul Dirmann (vExpert PRO*, vExpert***, VCIX-DCV, VCAP-DCV Design, VCAP-DCV Deploy, VCP-DCV, VCA-DBT, C|EH, MCSA, MCTS, MCP, CIOS, Network+, A+) is the owner and current Lead Consultant at Dirmann Technology Consultants. A technology evangelist, Dirmann has held both leadership positions, as well as technical ones architecting and engineering solutions for multiple multi-million dollar enterprises. While knowledgeable in the majority of the facets involved in the information technology realm, Dirmann honed his expertise in VMware’s line of solutions with a primary focus in hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and software-defined data centers (SDDC), server infrastructure, and automation. Read more about Paul Dirmann here, or visit his LinkedIn profile.

HCX DVS Not part of Service Mesh

VMware HCX – Can you extend VLAN-backed networks?

Team – On today’s post, we’re staying in the same realm as our last article – VMware HCX. However, today’s article (while part of the same project) has a different context to it than the previous post. To review, we’re assisting with migrating workloads from an on-premise data center to AVS. The customer has a …

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How to Delegate HCX Administrator Role

Team! If you have separation of duties in your environment, which you probably should, you may find yourself in need of delegating access to perform certain tasks and functions from time to time. That is the basis for this post. I recently was asked if it were possible to delegate administrative tasks in VMware HCX …

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Definition of template

Templates, Templates, Templates…

Team! We’re about to enter a topic of conversation that, much like everything else in the information technology industry, has hundreds of different ways to be implemented and hundreds of other opinions on the strategy of it. Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. We’re touching on the topic of templates. I recently had a …

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Vulnerability Discovered in VMware Carbon Black

Team: Earlier today, VMware released an advisory for their Carbon Black product. It hits hard at a grueling 9.1 rating on CSSv3. It’s a remote code execution vulnerability, which is why it has been rated so high. If you’re making use of App Control versions 8.5.x to 8.8.x, you’re affected. The good news is that …

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New vCenter and VCF Vulnerability Discovered with 6.5 – 9.8 CVSSv3 Rating!

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 …

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