Author: Piotr Tarnawski
Workaround instructions to address CVE-2021-44228 in Site Recovery Manager
As we are still waiting for patch to be released, here is a workaround provided by VMware which need to be applied to Site Recovery…
Workaround instructions to address CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046 in vRealize Operations 8.x
This is most up-to-date document on how to remediate CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046. On 15th of December 2021 VMware added workaround steps related to CVE-2021-45046. I…
VMware is going to update log4j to version 2.16
Today VMware published update on log4j solution. As per statment on the vendor KB website says that VMware expect to fully address both CVE-2021-44228 and…
How to install PowerCLI module in PowerShell
In this short video I will show you how to install VMware PowerCli module into PowerShell. Please like and share to spread the knowledge in…
-Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true” or “class JndiLookup” is not valid workaround anymore!
It looks like to workaround published by VMware is not valid anymore! On December 9, 2021 VMware released VMSA-2021-0028 to track the impact of an…
This is a CRITICAL Advisory with the highest possible severity (CVSSv3 score of 10 out of 10) VMSA-2021-0028
VMware published security advisory, VMSA-2021-0028, which impacts many VMware products through a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability via Apache Log4j. This is a CRITICAL Advisory with the highest possible severity (CVSSv3…
How to automate VM disk encryption with PowerCLI
A few days ago I wrote an article about disk encryption, you can read it clicking on this link. This is noce and easy method…
How to upgrade PowerCLI in PowerShell
I am preparing an article on how to automate virtual disks encryption in vSphere, when I come across an issue with PowerCLI, where I needed…
How to encrypt an existing Virtual Machine or Virtual Disk
Prerequisites: vCenter server must be configured and connected with the KMS server. Please refer to this article: How to connect vCenter with external KMS ESXi…
VxRail update 7.0.300 has been cancelled along with vSphere update 7.0 U3b
If you wanted to update you VxRail cluster to 7.0.300 then you need to know that it has been pulled off. It is knock off…