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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 »
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! 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
VMware VCF 3.9.0.0 to 3.10.1.2 Upgrade Troubles Read More »
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
Has Anybody Seen My Hybrid vSAN Capacity Drive? Read More »
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
New NSX-T 3.1 Vulnerability (7.5 out of 10) Read More »
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
vMotion Fails because VMTools is Installing Read More »
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
Traditional Data Stores vs. vVols Read More »
Team! A few weeks ago, vCenter 7.0 Update 1c was released. Let’s talk about one of the features that it contains a little bit as it’s a much needed, wanted, and anticipated feature in vCenter. I’m referring to Advanced Cross vCenter vMotion, of course! This is a productization of the infamous Cross vCenter Workload Migration
vCenter 7.0 Update 1c Feature – Advanced Cross-vCenter vMotion Read More »
