VMSA-2023-0023: Questions & Answers | VMware
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…
Retrieving detailed vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) Image information from vSphere Cluster using PowerCLI
Retrieving detailed vSphere Lifecycle Manager…
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 […]
How to Enable and Configure the new vMotion…
How to Enable and Configure the new vMotion…
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 […]
Tips & Tricks for deploying VMware Cloud…
Tips & Tricks for deploying VMware Cloud…
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 […]
New Book – DevOps for VMware Administrators
New Book – DevOps for VMware Administrators
There is a new book that shall be interesting to read for VMware admins that want to learn more about DevOps and some step-by-steps for deployments and managing applications at scale with Docker containers and Google Kubernetes.
vSAN ESA and the minimum number of hosts with…
vSAN ESA and the minimum number of hosts with…
I had a meeting last week with a customer and a question came up around the minimum number of hosts a cluster requires in order to use. particular RAID configuration for vSAN. I created a table for the customer and a quick paragraph on how this works and figured I would share it here as well.
vSphere 8 U2 Identity Federation with Entra…
vSphere 8 U2 Identity Federation with Entra…
One of the security enhancements that came out with vSphere 8 U2 and we haven’t talked yet is vSphere 8 U2 Identity Federation with Entra ID/Azure AD. This feature is an enhancements of the vSphere identity federation feature that are part of VCP exam topics here – VCP-DCV on vSphere 8.x […]
ESXi Network Tools | Scanda :)
ESXi Network Tools | Scanda 🙂
Sometimes it happens to troubleshoot an ESXi host for network problems. Over time I created a small guide to help me remember the various commands, I share it hoping it will be useful to everyone 🙂
Quick Tip – Verifying vCenter Server Appliance…
Quick Tip – Verifying vCenter Server Appliance…
I recently found out that my vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) scheduled backups had been failing for some time but I was not aware. While there is a default vCenter Server alarm for failed VCSA backups, however it is only visible when you have selected the vCenter Server inventory object […]
Revamp your VMware ESXCLI experience with a…
Revamp your VMware ESXCLI experience with a…
Today, we are thrilled to introduce a game-changer!: a custom ChatGPT assistant tailored specifically for VMware ESXi command-line interface (esxcli) queries and troubleshooting. Before diving into the specifics of this innovative tool, let’s briefly explore the concept of creating your own […]