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VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3 – important information
Samstag, November 20th, 2021VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x) – historically SD cards or USB devices have been chosen to free up device bays and lower the cost of installing ESXi hosts
Mittwoch, November 17th, 2021 VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x) – Boot Media Considerations and VMware Technical Guidance
VMware vCenter Server – Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-22048)
Samstag, November 13th, 2021Resolution – none
Workaround (86292) – for CVE-2021-22048 is to switch to AD over LDAPS authentication/Identity Provider Federation for AD FS (vSphere 7.0 only) from Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA)
SanDisk MAX ENDURANCE microSD Card – is engineered not only for continuous recording and re-recording but also for continuous peace of mind for years to come
Mittwoch, Oktober 27th, 2021
No future for booting ESXi from USB in VMware home labs using max endurance microSD for ESXi 7.0U3 now
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x) – Purple Screen Of Death (PSOD) after updating to vSphere ESXi 7.0 Update 3
Montag, Oktober 25th, 2021Symptoms:
Recent upgrade to ESXi 7.0.3 Build: 18644231
Thin provisioned virtual disks (VMDKs) residing on VMFS6 datastores may cause multiple hosts in an HA cluster to fail with a purple diagnostic screen
Resolution:
This is a known issue in VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0 Update 3 release currently there is no resolution. If you experience this issue please contact VMware support and reference this article
Workaround:
There are a few options that customers have to work around this issue. Please note that any of these workarounds will prevent the issue from happening customers only need to choose the workaround that is best for their situation
1. Revert to the previous version of ESXi that is not impacted by this concern https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1033604
2. Convert thin VMDKs to Thick or EZT provisioning
Determine the Virtual Disk Format and Convert a Virtual Disk from the Thin Provision Format to a Thick Provision Format
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-E8F50BEC-F575-4AB1-BC77-D9A13CDBDCF7.html
3. Disable TRIM/UNMAP in the Guest OS
Please consult OS documentation on how to adjust TRIM/UNMAP features for a complete understanding of the OS specific configurations needs. Note: functions and capabilities may vary across distributions and versions based on OS specifics
Microsoft Power BI Desktop – merging RVTools reports
Sonntag, Oktober 10th, 2021
Microsoft Power BI Desktop – merging RVTools reports
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x) – installing or removing packages fails with „BOOTx64.EFI not found“ error
Freitag, Oktober 8th, 2021 VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x) – installing or removing packages fails with „BOOTx64.EFI not found“ error
Python ransomware script targets ESXi server for encryption – because configuration errors rapidly escalated to a ransomware attack inside a virtual machine hypervisor
Mittwoch, Oktober 6th, 2021 Securing the ESXi Hypervisor – by default the ESXi Shell and SSH services are not running and only the root user can log in to the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) if you decide to enable ESXi or SSH access you can set timeouts to limit the risk of unauthorized access
VMware has also published a list of best practices for administrators of their ESXi hypervisors on how to secure them and limit the attack surface on the hypervisor itself
MinIO – this short demonstration covers how to deploy manage and scale MinIO object storage directly from VMware using Kubernetes
Freitag, Oktober 1st, 2021VMware vSphere 7.0 – extreme performance series understanding the Virtual Network Stack
Donnerstag, September 30th, 2021VMware vSphere 7.0 – Performance Best Practices
Donnerstag, September 30th, 2021
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3 – what’s new technical overview
Donnerstag, September 30th, 2021VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3 – is going to be released
Dienstag, September 28th, 2021Booting VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x) from SD/USB devices – time to reconsider when buying new hardware
Samstag, September 18th, 2021 VMware strongly advises that you move away completely from using SD card/USB as a boot device option on any future server hardware
