In November 2024, VMware, under Broadcom’s leadership, updated its licensing portfolio, aiming to streamline offerings and align with evolving customer needs, and added a new product suite. we will take a look at each of them briefly. Revised Licensing Categories VMware’s product suite is now organized into four primary categories: Transition to Subscription-Based Licensing Aligning with industry trends, VMware has […]
The annual VMware Explore event in Barcelona never disappoints, and 2024 was no exception! With so many exciting sessions covering cutting-edge developments in virtualization, cloud, and networking, choosing a handful of favorites is no easy task. However, a few sessions stood out to me for their insights, innovation, and potential to transform how we approach modern IT challenges. Here are […]
A missing authentication for critical function vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-47575 in FortiManager fgfmd daemon may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or commands via specially crafted requests. Reports have shown this vulnerability to be exploited in the wild. The company privately warned FortiManager customers about the flaw starting October 13th in advanced notification emails seen by BleepingComputer […]
VMware by Broadcom has released a VMware NSX update to address multiple vulnerabilities CVE-2024-38818, CVE-2024-38817, and CVE-2024-38815. Impacted Products: CVE-2024-38817 | VMware NSX command injection vulnerability Description:VMware NSX contains a command injection vulnerability. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Moderate severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 6.7. A malicious actor with access to the NSX […]
VMware has released a security advisory that addresses vulnerabilities CVE-2024-38812 and CVE-2024-38813. These vulnerabilities can allow for heap-overflow and privilege escalation attacks. VMware has published fixes for both vulnerabilities in VMware Cloud Foundation and vCenter Server. Impacted Products: CVE-2024-38812 | VMware vCenter Server heap-overflow vulnerability Description:The vCenter Server contains a heap-overflow vulnerability in the implementation of the DCERPC protocol. VMware […]
In this post, we will redeploy the NSX Edge Transport Node using the NSX Manager API call where you can easily and quickly redeploy your edge node. I am in a situation, where my nodes are not responding as I am constantly testing things in my Lab, so I wanted to share how you can do that in your production […]
Fortinet has released the new version of FortiOS 7.6.0. FortiOS 7.6.0 Release NotesNew FeaturesAdministration GuideBest PracticesCLI ReferenceResolved IssuesKnown IssuesFortiOS 7.6 VMware Solution Supported models FortiOS 7.6.0 supports the following models. FortiGate FG-40F, FG-40F-3G4G, FG-60F, FG-61F, FG-70F, FG-71F, FG-80F, FG-80F-BP, FG-80F-DSL, FG-80F-POE, FG-81F, FG-81F-POE, FG-100F, FG-101F, FG-200E, FG-200F, FG-201E, FG-201F, FG-300E, FG-301E, FG‑400E, FG-400E-BP, FG‑401E, FG-400F, FG-401F, FG‑500E, FG-501E, FG-600E, FG-601E, FG-600F, FG-601F, […]
VMware NSX 4.2.0 has been released. NSX 4.2.0 provides various new features, offering new functionalities for virtualized networking and security for private, public, and multi-clouds. Easy adoption of virtual networking for virtual machines connected to VLAN topologies What’s New Full list of new capabilities Resolved IssuesKnown IssuesNSX Quick Start GuideNSX Installation GuideNSX Administration GuideNSX Upgrade Guide
VCF 5.2 has been released today. What’s New VMware Cloud Foundation Bill of Materials (BOM) Software Component Version Date Build Number Cloud Builder VM 5.2 23 JUL 2024 24108943 SDDC Manager 5.2 23 JUL 2024 24108943 VMware vCenter Server Appliance 8.0 Update 3a 18 JUL 2024 24091160 VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3 25 JUN 2024 24022510 VMware vSAN Witness Appliance […]
I am writing this article because I had trouble understanding the best way to deploy VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) in a lab environment, given our limited resources and the high demands of VCF. For example, using the VCF Holodeck Toolkit requires 384 GB of RAM, which is beyond our current capacity. To address this issue, I searched for ways to […]
