For many years home labs, and even in some production environments, booting VMware ESXi from a SD card or USB stick was an easy and simple way to deploy ESXi. For example, up until today I booted my Dell Precision 7920 ESXi 7 host from a high endurance SD card...
I was doing some testing in my lab with vCenter 7 (VCSA), using snapshots. I rolled back a test vCenter instance and was unable to subsequently login. The error I got was: User name and password are required. I also noticed that the windows session authentication was also check-able, even...
Notes: Although the notes from the session are not lengthy, the impact of this announcement cannot be understated. VMware has finally brought to the table slimplifed VCSA (and later ESXi) certificate management. I can't wait for the future betas to try out these new features. New APIs for Cert...
​Session: HBI4937BU; Kit Colbert ​Session: HBI4937BU; Kit Colbert Unifying vSphere and Kubernetes Modern application deployments are accelerating More applications and solutions will be deployed in the next 5 years than in the previous 40. A modern application is complex: Kubernetes cluster, legacy apps, database, serverless. Challenges for developers and IT...
​Note: As usual for my live blogging posts please forgive any sentence fragments, typos, etc. I'll try and post after each session with just minimal proof reading. Speed trumps perfection at these conferences. Pat (CEO) walks on stage and welcomes everyone to VMworld 2019. This is his 7th anniversary as...
​Hot off the press are a few security patches for a variety of VMware products. Advisories include the products ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and vCloud Director. As always with security updates, read the release notes, assess your risk, deploy the patches in a lab, test, then gently roll out to production. The...
Hot off the press is a new version of VMware tools, 10.2.0. This has a number of bug fixes, and an updated OS support list. For security geeks, VMware tools finally supports ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization). There's also a Windows 10 fall creator's (1709) fix tucked in there as...
Microsoft has been very busy adding new security features to Windows 10. It seems that each release gets something new, or existing features are enhanced. For enterprises, one of the great new-ish features is Windows Defender Credential Guard. What is Credential Guard? It uses VBS (virtualization based security) to help...