Daniel Micanek virtual Blog – Like normal Dan, but virtual.
Back in 2012, a VMware Fling was released called VIB Author, which allowed users to create their own custom vSphere Infrastructure Bundles (VIB) that typically would include configuration changes that was not possible when using the vSphere API such as enabling custom ESXi firewall ports or […]
On occasion, you might find yourself needing to take multi-level VM snapshots for various testing or development purposes, not an uncommon task for IT administrators. In the past, if you needed to move the VM and preserve its snapshot hierarchy, it was usually difficult and involved manual tasks […]
VMware vCenter Server and VMware ESXi are attractive targets for ransomware attacks. In this session, we show you how to proactively protect the VMware vSphere platform against ransomware and detect attacks before they encrypt your ESXi hosts and VMs. Using experiences and examples from multiple …Read More
While updating and testing my Automated Lab Deployment Script for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), I often found myself checking whether the bringup process has completed or not using the Cloud Builder UI. Ideally, I could configure some type of notification that would alert me immediately when […]
Slow but steady. That’s how I would describe the pace and progress around making SDDC.Lab version 6 the new default and recommended version of the project. If you’re not familiar with the SDDC.Lab project, it’s a collection of Ansible Playbooks that perform fully automated deployment and […]
Continuing with my Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam preparations we’re now going to take a look at upgrading a Kubernetes cluster.
Questions and answers pertaining to VMSA-2023-0023 AND CVE-2023-34048, CVE-2023-34056. Updated at 0800 PST (-0800) on January 19, 2024
Retrieving detailed vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) Image information from vSphere Cluster using PowerCLI
As more and more users are adopting vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) to simplify the lifecycle and configuration management of their ESXi hosts, you may want to get more information about a given vLCM image that has been associated with a specific vSphere Cluster. While you can certainly get this information using the vSphere UI, you […]
At VMware, we take reliability, uptime, and availability as importantly as we take performance, security and other desirable benefits of virtualization. What if, when a vMotion operation is invoked, the operation waits for an Administrator-configurable “clearance” from the Guest Operating […]
The VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Holodeck Toolkit has become quite popular amongst our field teams for quickly spinning up a fully self-contained VCF environment, running on just a single physical ESXi host for educational and hands on experience. Internally, we have a Holodeck Google Space […]
