Virtualization

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

By Paul Dirmann / May 25, 2021 / Cloud, Security, Virtualization, VMware

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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Has Anybody Seen My Hybrid vSAN Capacity Drive?

By Paul Dirmann / May 9, 2021 / vCenter, Virtualization, VMware

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 …

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vRealize Business for Cloud – Critical 9.8 / 10 Vulnerability

By Paul Dirmann / May 6, 2021 / Security, VMware

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, …

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New NSX-T 3.1 Vulnerability (7.5 out of 10)

By Paul Dirmann / April 19, 2021 / Networking, Security, VMware

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 …

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vMotion Fails because VMTools is Installing

By Paul Dirmann / March 31, 2021 / Virtualization, VMware

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 …

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VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 – Native Key Provider

By Paul Dirmann / March 11, 2021 / Security, Virtualization, VMware

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 …

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VMware vCenter, VCF, and ESXi Critical/Important Vulnerabilities

By Paul Dirmann / March 8, 2021 / Security, Virtualization, VMware

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 …

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SAN Storage – Optimize Your Hosts!

By Paul Dirmann / March 2, 2021 / Virtualization, VMware

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!) …

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vSAN 7.0 Update 1 – Shared Witness for Two-Node Clusters

By Paul Dirmann / February 7, 2021 / Virtualization, VMware

Team! It’s Sunday! Super Bowl Sunday, to be exact. And what better way to spend Super Bowl Sunday than to sit down at the computer and type up an article about VMware’s vSAN. Glad we’re on the same page with that one! For those that don’t know me, I love vSAN. I vouch for this …

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Traditional Data Stores vs. vVols

By Paul Dirmann / January 23, 2021 / Virtualization, VMware

Team! Happy Saturday all! Tonight, I wanted to dip a little bit into the storage topic as it pertains to VMware and touch on the “data store versus VVol” debate. This is a conversation that I had a few months back had with one of my clients and I wanted to share some of the …

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