Author: Piotr Tarnawski
Greetings from Barcelona! VMware Explore is around the corner
I arrived in Barcelona a day earlier than planned. That was due to a football game schedule change. The game was scheduled for Sunday but…
vSphere 8 Upgrade! How to upgrade your vCenter Server 6.5\6.7\7.0 to vCenter 8.0
On October 11, 2022, VMware announced the initial availability (IA) of VMware vSphere 8.0. This new status of “initial availability” adheres to VMware’s new release…
vCenter Converter is back! General Availability of the vCenter Converter 6.3, download now!
The new vCenter Converter 6.3 is now generally available, more than three years after the previous release. VMware announces the official return of one of…
Recently, over 45,000 VMware ESXi systems reached their end of life.
VMware ESXi 6.5 and ESXi 6.7 reached end-of-life on October 15, 2022, and will no longer receive technical support or security updates, putting the software…
ESXi upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0 failed on libupgradepsadeviceconfig.so
I come across this strange issue that upgrades for ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 is failing on a few hosts with PSOD and the error being…
How to deploy vCenter 8.0 using VMware Workstations.
The new vSphere 8 IA is out there and ready to install on your development environments. Please read this article on the differences between IA…
How to deploy ESXi 8.0 using Vmware Workstation!
Today we will deploy ESXI 8.0 IA using VMware Workstation PRO 16. Please remember this is Initial Avalibity, not General Avalitbity, hence do not use…
The new release model of vSphere 8 (IA) is live.
VMware added new step for release model which is IA (Initial Availability). As everyone who work in IT business more then one release of any…
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…
