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.

Upgrade Your VCSA

The Enterprise Lab – Episode 1 – Upgrading vCenter to 8.0U1c

Team – It’s the final day of the year, and as I mentioned in the post title “The Enterprise Lab – Overview” our internal lab has been feeling a little left out lately. What better way to get ahead of those new year resolutions than to start a day early! Today, we’re going to upgrade …

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Issues Deploying a Greenfield VMware Cloud Foundations 5.x Instance – Part 1

Team – Welcome back! We’ve been pretty busy on our end, much like everyone else in the world. Recently, we had the opportunity to team up with some staff from VMware and jointly roll out a greenfield VMware Cloud Foundations 5.x instance for a mutual customer. I’m not going to re-create information that’s already available …

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VMSA-2023-0026 – VMware vCloud Director 10.5 Vulnerability

Team – Today, VMware released information pertaining to a new vulnerability discovered in vCloud Director! If you are running version 10.5 in your environment, you’re going to want to tune in because the vulnerability is rated at a whopping 9.8! If you are running a greenfield deployment of vCloud Director 10.5.0, you are NOT affected. Furthermore, …

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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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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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