Technology – Gabbs' Random Thoughts

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…

Virtual Updates 2024-07-01

VMware Explore Content Catalog is live
….this isn’t the scheduler…
Best thing to do is take a look, and mark you “favorite sessions”
This way, when the scheduler is released….makes building your schedule easy
Content Catalog link is here.

Critical vCenter patch!
Any vCenter 7.x or 8.x version needs an update!
VMware (Broadcom) page is here.

Virtual Updates 2024-06-17

Upgrade & Downgrade of VMware Licenses in Broadcom portal
Why not add a set of instructions for something that used to be easy.
William Lam tackles this nicely for us.
Still….if it needs a KB article….maybe its too complicated????

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

Virtual Upates 2024-05-13

VMware on AWS – up in the air?….nope. On solid Ground
So been hearing rumblings that VMC on AWS may no longer be available.
This has no bearing on running the GCP or Azure offerings….just AWS.
VMC on AWS is still there, it is just transacted differently.
Here are some articles I’ve seen the past 2 weeks…
AWS Post, trying to get you to go native AWS services (of course.)
CRN’s take on it.
Broadcom post

VMware (eases) changes & deadlines for CSPs
Maybe the original deadlines were too aggressive…
The Register post is here.

Virtual Updates 2024-04-29

VMware Explore registration opens April 30
Link to VMware Explore page.

VMware disrupts operations April 30 to May 6
This is to simplify the transition from SAP to Oracle.
While nothing really goes offline, managing licenses and activities through many of the online portals will be off during their migration.
…just somethign to be aware of….
CRN post is here.

Virtual Updates 2024-04-01

Windows Server March Update breaks Domain Controllers
If you applied the latest updates, you are susceptible.
Fix is in the post below.
BleepingComputer blog post is here.

vCenter 8.0.2 Update 2c released
Lots of little fixes…
2 x Upgrades & 1 x new deploy….looking good.
vCenter Release Notes are here.