Azure VMware Solution – March 2023 – What’s New…

Azure VMware Solution – March 2023 – What’s New…

We are thrilled to announce the March 2023 release for Azure VMware Solution. A variety of new and highly anticipated features such as SQL Azure Hybrid Benefit is now GA, AVS Gov is in Preview and Customer Managed Keys are now available. Read on to explore more. Azure VMware Solution […]


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Quick Tip – How to download ESXi ISO image for…

Quick Tip – How to download ESXi ISO image for…

Not all ESXi releases, including patch updates are available as an ISO image that can be downloaded. Depending on the type of ESXi release, it will either be available as an ISO and Offline Bundle (zip) format which can downloaded from the ESXi Customer Connect portal or only as an Offline […]


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Discover what’s new in vSphere 8.0 U1 and vSAN…

Discover what’s new in vSphere 8.0 U1 and vSAN…

We (the Unexplored Territory team) work with the vSphere release team to get you the latest information about the new releases as quickly as possible. This week we published two new episodes discussing what’s new with vSphere 8.0 U1 and vSAN 8.0 U1. To enjoy the content, you can listen to them […]


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Holo-Tanzu-vSphere-Pods

Holo-Tanzu-vSphere-Pods

Holo-Tanzu-vSphere-Pods

Module 3 – vSphere Pods This module shows how to run vSphere Pods on a vSphere Supervisor Cluster that is part of a Cloud Foundation domain. A vSphere Pod is a special type of virtual machine with a small footprint that runs one or more Linux containers. Each vSphere Pod is sized precisely for the workload that it accommodates and has explicit resource reservations for that workload. It allocates


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NFS Multi-Connections in vSphere 8.0 Update 1

NFS Multi-Connections in vSphere 8.0 Update 1

While listening to both The Unexplored Territory and VirtuallySpeaking Podcast, which recently covered the newly announced vSphere 8.0 Update 1 release, The upcoming vSphere 8.0 Update 1 release includes a lot of exciting new features, some of which you can learn about by listening to either […]


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How to run Secure Boot Validation Script on an ESXi Host

Help for validation script:

/usr/lib/vmware/secureboot/bin/secureBoot.py -h
usage: secureBoot.py [-h] [-a | -c | -s]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -a, --acceptance-level-check
                        Validate acceptance levels for installed vibs
  -c, --check-capability
                        Check if the host is ready to enable secure boot
  -s, --check-status    Check if UEFI secure boot is enabled

Check if the host is ready to enable secure boot

/usr/lib/vmware/secureboot/bin/secureBoot.py -c
Secure boot can be enabled: All vib signatures verified. All tardisks validated. All acceptance levels validated

Check if UEFI secure boot is disabled

/usr/lib/vmware/secureboot/bin/secureBoot.py -s
Disabled

Create Cisco UCS Boot Policy

Check if UEFI secure boot is enabled and working

/usr/lib/vmware/secureboot/bin/secureBoot.py -s
Enabled
vSphere Secure Boot