Author: Piotr Tarnawski
Prevention and Mitigation against Unsigned vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs) in ESXi
Researchers from cyber threat intelligence company Mandiant on Thursday 29th published information on two malware leveraging unsigned vSphere Installation Bundles (“VIBs”) to install backdoors VirtualPita…
VirtualPita, VirtualPie – new malware backdoors VMware ESXi servers to hijack virtual machines
The malicious actors found the new method of taking over the control of VMware ESXi hypervisors to control vCenter servers and virtual machines for Windows…
Reminder: vSphere 6.5 and vSphere 6.7 End of Support on October 15, 2022!
Hey, fellows administrators, this is a gentle reminder that the End of General Support for vSphere 6.5 and vSphere 6.7 is October 15, 2022. It…
vSphere 8 release date
During the VMware Explore conference, VMware announced a new version of vSphere, vSphere 8. The product looks very interesting with a lot of new and…
vSphere 8 Core Storage – New Features!
During the VMware Explore US, the vSphere 8 has been announced. Now let’s have a look at some new core storage enhanced features. vVols Enhancements…
Win Dell Technologies Proven Professional exam vouchers!
I started to participate in the #100DaysOfHomeLab challenge. The idea is to spend 1 hour a day for the next 100 days working in your…
The default partition ‘/’ has only 2.6 GB of available space. Enter a new export directory on the source machine below.
During the upgrade VCSA 6.7 to version 7.0 I faced the issue with free space. As shown on the screenshot above, the default partition ‘/’…
How to fix pre-chek SSL certificate issue during vCenter upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0
I just ran an upgrade and stage 1 went perfectly fine. However, during pre-check on stage 2, I received this error message: The machine SSL…
Introducing vSphere 8! What’s new?
If you have not tuned in to VMware Explore, you may miss this announcement! VMware is introducing vSphere 8. Many of us (not me, I…
Let’s determine expired SSL certificates in vCenter and ESXi 6.x and 7.x
Once you have an issue with signing in to your environment or some services cannot start, the more likely root cause is the SSL cert…
