Very good article from Kev Johnson – https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/author/kevjvmware-com Vulnerability Summary Customers should be aware of an important issue with VMware Tools where a non-privileged user on a Windows VM could read information or cause problems in a VM running VMware Tools lower than 10.3.10. The official designation from VMware is VMSA-2019-0009 on the VMware Security Advisories page and mailing…

Read More VMSA-2019-0009

This is a good interesting article from https://blog.dellemc.com/en-us/author/elipersin/ I was looking for something similar for a project a year ago and this was no where near an option. Disaster recovery is one of the most important aspects an organization needs to handle, not only for business continuity, but also for regulatory reasons. Not every business…

Read More Disaster Recovery to VMware Cloud™ on AWS using Cloud DR

Move hosts from vCenter B, cluster B to vCenter A, temporary cluster. Scenario: I have two separate vCenter Servers. Each has a vSAN cluster. Each cluster is connected to additional separate storage. Each cluster is on a different IP range, different naming convention and different domain. Hosts in each cluster are identical in spec, reside…

Read More Merging vSAN clusters. pt3

Sections Here is a brief breakdown of the five different sections and their content: Infrastructure Overview: A high-level diagram showing the relationships between the on-premises data center, the VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC, and native AWS services. HCX Enterprise Network: A detailed diagram covering the HCX components, connectivity, flows, and ports utilized between the on-premises…

Read More VMware Cloud on AWS – Quick Reference Poster

VMware Skyline A proactive support mechanism, which automatically and securely collects, aggregates, and analyzes product usage data which proactively identifies potential problems and helps VMware Technical Support Engineers improve the resolution time. Benefits: Proactively identify and prevent problems. Solve problems, not symptoms. Improve the reliability and stability of your environment. Reduce time-to-resolution for service requests.…

Read More VMware Skyline – Install & configure.

AWS Outposts – announced today. Well this is going to be an interesting one. Next year are we going to be seeing lots of companies rolling racks or 1/2 racks of Amazon hardware in to their local data centers to run EC2 instances in their own DC’s? Are we going to see service providers doing…

Read More AWS Outposts – A game changer