Log4j Security Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-44228 – Mitigation Strategies for TAS Operators

By the Tanzu Vanguard community - key contributors: Simmy Xavier, Charles Lester, Juergen Sussner, Jonathan Regehr & Robert Kloosterhuis SOURCE: https://twitter.com/skippersecurity/status/1470461021315817475 Summary Brief: Apache Log4j is a very widely used and popular logging library within the Java logging framework. There is a vulnerability named as Log4Shell identified and is being tracked officially under CVE-2021-44228 (and... Continue Reading →

16. December 2021

What is Tanzu? A Customer’s POV

Authors from Tanzu Vanguard Super User community Let’s begin by explaining who we are: We are a group of VMware Tanzu customers referred to as Vanguards. The Vanguard community consists of engaged, vocal super users who share best practices with each other, share our stories publicly, and actively share our feedback with the product team... Continue Reading →

16. November 2021

ESXi HA Agent unreachable after recent vCSA patch 7.0 U2b

VMware recently released a statement regarding a known vulnerability in the current vCenter Server appliances which could cause remote code execution and authentication flaws Advisory ID: VMSA-2021-0010 and released updates and workarounds to manage this situation. Product Version Running On CVE Identifier CVSSv3 Severity Fixed Version Workarounds Additional Documentation vCenter Server 7.0 Any CVE-2021-21985 9.8... Continue Reading →

2. June 2021

[Script] Migrate Roles/Privileges to new vCenter

I recently created a Powershell script which allows you to copy/migrate your roles and privileges from one vCenter to another. Make sure the credentials used for the login of the vCenter are allowed to create and modify roles. To set up Powershell for the VMware commands: Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -Scope CurrentUser Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -Scope AllUsers -ParticipateInCeip... Continue Reading →

22. February 2021

Migrate VM from Hyper-V to VMware with Veeam V10

Included in the newest release of Veeam Backup and Replication v10 a new feature was introduced to migrate VMs from a Hyper-V Backup to a VMware Cluster. To learn more about this feature and the highlights click HERE! This is a great opportunity to migrate your workload during a hardware (and software) refresh from Hyper-V... Continue Reading →

6. March 2020

VMDK config cannot be changed due to orphaned vSphere replication settings

I recently needed to change a *.vmdk size of an VM which had created an error saying: Reconfigure virtual machine Status: Invalid or unsupported virtual machine configuration. vSphere Replication does not support changing the length of a replicated disk. Actually, this VM was replicated using vSphere Replication in the past but it has been... Continue Reading →

5. December 2019

Part 2 – VxRail 4.7.300 update / Repointing VxRail Manager after PSC converge and decommissioning

Disclamer: The following steps regarding the repointing of the VxRail Manager to a new PSC are not supported nor official and should be performed under supervision of trained professionals / certified engineers and/or in a training environment! These steps were performed in my own lab and should not be performed in a production infrastructure without... Continue Reading →

2. December 2019

Part 1 – VxRail 4.7.300 update / external vCSA and non-embedded PSC (Converge Tool)

I was facing the following situation: VxRail Cluster Version 4.7.1xx external vCSA 6.7 U1 external PSC 6.7 U1 Goal was to update the system to the newest VxRail version 4.7.300, converge the PSC into the vCSA and update vCSA to 6.7 U3b. First things first, check the compatibility guide for issues and supported update path.... Continue Reading →

29. November 2019

Sharing is caring!

I've been into VMware for quite a while now. And into storage products also. So it is quite normal that VMware vSAN caught my interest immediately. But it is challenging sometimes, to explain in an simple and easy way, how it works and what the benefits of vSAN are depending on the knowledge of the... Continue Reading →

7. June 2019

Export all active and standby Distributed Switch Portgroup uplink ports using PowerCLI

Just a quick command I used. Maybe it will be useful for someone as well. I thought about the easiest way to check for all active and standby uplink ports on all vSphere Distributed Switch portgroups in my datacenter, for documentation purposes. You could easily check the settings on each portgroup by navigating to the... Continue Reading →

12. December 2018

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