Problem: You can’t find the advanced vSAN setting ’SwapThickProvisionDisabled’ that you want to check/set to make sure all vSAN swap objects/files get thinly provisioned.
Solution: This setting has been moved to the UI in vSphere Client, called ’Thin
VMware has released a critical security patch for vCenter Server 6.7 named VMSA-2020-006. It has a CVSS score of 10, which is all you really need to know to get a sense of the urgency to install this patch. The short version of our recommendation is therefore
In December, VMware posted a security bulletin VMSA-2019-0022 which describes a serious vulnerability in ESXi 6.x (and Horizon DaaS, but that is not covered in this blog post) that allows an attacker
Problem: On a newly installed NSX-T 2.5 Bare Metal Edge node, you can only see 3 available physical NICs/uplinks, even though your physical server has 4 of them installed and connected. (Or 7 uplinks if you have 8
Problem: When installing a Bare Metal NSX-T 2.x Edge from the ISO (as described here), you aren’t asked to set passwords for the ‘root’ and ‘admin’ accounts.
If you’ve been running NSX-T for a while, you probably know that a lot of error messages and CLI lists contain UUIDs rather than the actual NSX-T object names.
One example below, where there is a ‘Partial Success’ on the realization of
Scenario: We want to have NSX-T 2.4 Managers/Controllers and Edges send logs to a central logging server (such as vRealize Log Insight). This is particularly important for the firewall logs, since we do want to be able to use them for troubleshooting and security
VMware Skyline is the new incarnation of VMware’s previous tool called vCenter Support Assistant. The main purpose of the tool is:
