Dirmann Technology Consultants
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 …
Issues Deploying a Greenfield VMware Cloud Foundations 5.x Instance – Part 1 Read More »
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 …
VMware HCX – Can you extend VLAN-backed networks? Read More »
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 …
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 …
Edit: Check out Part 2 of the series here! Team! What…is…up, everyone? Things have been a little crazy over here on our side, which is why I have been sticking and posting to social media outlets over writing blog posts. This post is the first of a few in a series that I hope gives …
The Road to the VCDX – A Candidate’s Stories – Part 1 Read More »
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 …
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 …
