NSX 4.0 Series Part1-NSX Manager Installation
No more NSX-V & NSX-T…!!! It’s only NSX from version 4 onwards. This series of NSX 4.0 includes following parts. […]
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IP Address Overlap in NSX – An NSX Blog
IP Address Overlap in NSX – An NSX Blog
Introduction: One of my NSX peers was recently working on an IP address overlap issue that helped lead to a better understanding of routing behaviour within an NSX environment. The Scenario: In this corner case scenario there is IP address overlap between these two subnets: The NSX environment, [..]
vVols with NVMe – A Perfect Match | VMware
vVols with NVMe – A Perfect Match | VMware
Engineering article from Ashutosh Sarawat describing the benefits of running vVols on NVMe-FC.
Create Windows 11 Virtual Appliance using Tiny…
Create Windows 11 Virtual Appliance using Tiny…
I recently came to learn about a really cool project called Tiny 11 which is a stripped down version of Windows 11 Pro 22H2 that can run with just 2GB of memory and 8GB of storage. While you would probably not use this for production workloads, it could be interesting for those with homelabs and […]
“SECUREBOOT: Image DENIED.” – Linux VMs created with Hardware version 20 will fail to start installation when Secure Boot is enabled (88737)
Important 88737 Symptoms
The installation of the Operating System image will be denied and “SECUREBOOT: Image DENIED.” will be reported in vmware.log.
Below goes the list of the impacted Linux Operating Systems.
- RHEL 8.0~8.4, 7.x
- CentOS 8.0~8.5, 7.x
- Oracle Linux 8.0~8.3, 7.x
- AlmaLinux 8.4
- Rocky Linux 8.4
- Photon OS 4.0GA, 3.0 GA & Rev 2 & Rev 3, 2.0
- Ubuntu LTS 20.04~20.04.4, 18.04~18.04.5 and earlier
- Ubuntu Non-LTS 21.04, 20.10, 19.10, 19.04, 18.10 and earlier
- Debian 10.9 and earlier
- SLE 12SP0~SP5, 15SP0-SP2
Cause
This is caused due to the Secure Boot deny list (dbx) is updated to prevent vulnerable bootloaders from being used. For more information, refer to VMware response to GRUB2 security vulnerability CVE-2020-10713 (80181)
Resolution
- Create the SecureBoot Virtual Machine with Hardware version 19 (or earlier).
- After the installation is completed, update the vulnerable bootloader of the VM to a newer and fixed version, refer to VMware response to GRUB2 security vulnerability CVE-2020-10713 (80181)
- Upgrade the Virtual Machine’s Hardware version to 20.
Workaround
Create the Virtual Machine with Secureboot disabled instead.
VMware vVols – Performance Evolution and Future
VMware vVols – Performance Evolution and Future
A deep dive into vVols performance improvement from vVols engineer Yogender Solanki
VMware NSX-T Logical Routing
VMware NSX-T Logical Routing
Today we are going to talk about the logical routing in the VMware NSX-T environment. As many of you know that the logical routing capability in the NSX-T platform provides the ability to interconnect both virtual and physical workloads deployed in different logical L2 networks. […]
Automated ESXi Installation with a USB Network…
Automated ESXi Installation with a USB Network…
I have been working with the Project Keswick team for quite some time now, which is an OCTO project is lead by my good friend Alan Renouf, who is doing some really innovative work with ESXi at the edge and application deployment using a desired state engine. Recently I had met with the team to […]
Learning Paths – KubeAcademy
Learning Paths – KubeAcademy
If you are new to Cloud Native concepts and Kubernetes, this Learning Path will introduce you to the history and industry pressures that necessitated the rise of Cloud Native practices. The courses in this learning path provide a broad overview of the Cloud Native landscape, cover Container […]
2023 NSX Ninja Program For Customers
2023 NSX Ninja Program For Customers
The 5 day VMware NSX Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Ninja program provides in depth coverage of networking use cases. This program is a comprehensive look at NSX architecture and components that support switching, routing, VPN, load balancing, container networking, and multi-site networking [..]