Author: MarkGabbs

Virtual Updates 2024-09-23

AT&T Suing Broadcom over VMware Licensing?
Not sure how this will play out, but it IS interesting….
AT&T suing Broadcom about support for existing licensing commitments….
Caveat here is AT&T didn’t meet timelines, so not sure how I WOULD take this….
3 different takes….
TechSpot article here.
The Register article here.
ArsTechnica article here.

VMware vCenter 7 & 8 gets updated.
New CVE remediation needed (a 9.8 CVE rating).
Update your vCenter Servers soon.
VMware vCenter 7 Release Notes are here.
VMware vCenter 8 Release Notes are here.
ESXi 8 Release Notes are here.

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Virtual Updates 2024-09-02

VMware Explore last week
It was very obvious that this was a smaller conference than in years past.
An interesting statement from Hock Tan….
“…taking workloads back from the public cloud.”
Azure, AWS, and GCP must be livid!!!!
Hands On Labs is offline until Sept 3, and will have the latest labs available.
Looking forward to the HOLs being released next week.
Note that session recordings are released already….
I like William Lam’s listing of the session recordings better….

VMware Explore 2025 – already scheduled
August 25-28, 2025
Las Vegas at The Venetian.
VMware Blog post is here.

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Virtual Updates 2024-08-05

vSphere 7 support extended!
Was April 2, 2025…is now October 2, 2025.
That will defiantly help a few folks out….
This Broadcom Lifecycle Support Portal link does require you to login to the Broadcom Support portal….

VMware Skyline Advisor – End of Life
Kinda saw this one coming…
While killing Skyline Advisor as a product, the functionality is being moved into the VCF and VVF stacks via Aria Operations 8.18.
Please read, if you use any of the Skyline products.
Broadcom FAQ page is here.

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Virtual Updates 2024-07-22

Multiple Account Hacks….AT&T, UnitedHealth Group
Couple of big hacks….
In April 2024, AT&T “learned” that data from May 2022 to October 2022 was leaked….who called who, texted, etc. Seems serious.
An article about AT&T.
An article about UnitedHealth Group.

Crowdstrike causes international BSOD event
Friday July 19th, IT teams work up and wondered why nothing worked…
Technical details from Crowdstrike.
Jon Towles post on using InTune for remediation.
Omnissa post on remediation for Horizon Pools.
William Lam post on using vSphere API to automate VM Console interaction.
Microsoft’s new Recovery Tool, created for this incident…

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Virtual Updates 2024-05-27

VMware (Broadcom) offers Workstation & Fusion Pro for free
Never expected that!
Free for personal use….commercial use still requires a license.
Great for us at home using Workstation/Fusion!
VMware Blog post is here.
New to Broadcom download page….here’s a guide.

Nutanix .NEXT 2024
…just wrapped up.
Jump to the bottom of this post to see all the hubub….Or…
Here are many of the links to PDFs…
Nutanix and NVIDIA Collaborate to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption
Nutanix Adds Power Monitoring to Help Customers Track Sustainability Progress
Nutanix Accelerates Hypervisor Innovation to Drive Enterprise Modernization
Nutanix and Dell Technologies Collaborate on New Joint Solutions for Hybrid Multicloud
Nutanix Simplifies Management and Operations of Kubernetes Clusters Anywhere to Speed Innovation
Nutanix Accelerates Enterprise Adoption of Generative AI
Nutanix and EDB Partner to Deliver a Modern Data Platform

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