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ESXi Patches – November 2020 #2

Another part of resolving ESXi issues has been release for ESXi 6.5, ESXi 6.7 and ESXi 7.0 . What should you do? Read this post and then plan for applying the patches. All supported versions are affected by the below issues and the issues are resolved in the latest patches: VMware ESXi contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine might exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine’s VMX process running on the host. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2020-4004 to...

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ESXi Patches – November 2020

Today, all news is about Trump and Biden but US president can’t help you about keep safe your virtualization environments. Also you can’t keep safe even by using wooden plate. Go to my.vmware.com and download the new patches. Security is Always Important But Not Everything “Security is Always Important But Not Everything”, Ok… but the patches released all about vulnerabilities mitigations. All supporting versions are affected by the below issue: OpenSLP as used in ESXi has a use-after-free issue. This issue might allow a malicious actor with network access to port 427 on an ESXi host to trigger a use-after-free in...

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vSphere 7 is Available to Download

VMware vSphere 7 is now available to download. The new version of vSphere is available with the below licenses and components: Licenses and Components Essentials VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0.0                           VMware vCenter Server 7.0.0                                                              Essentials Plus                                              VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0.0                            VMware vCenter Server 7.0.0                                                              VMware vSphere Replication 8.3.0                                       Standard                                                       VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0.0                            VMware vCenter Server 7.0.0                                                              VMware vSphere Replication 8.3.0                                       VMware vRealize Orchestrator Appliance 8.0.1 Enterprise                        VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0.0                            VMware vCenter Server 7.0.0                                                              VMware vSphere Replication 8.3.0                                       VMware vRealize Orchestrator Appliance 8.0.1 Enterprise Plus                VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0.0                            VMware vCenter Server 7.0.0                                                              VMware...

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The New Guy Came, vSphere 7

I was reading lot of posts and tweets about this new guy, vSphere 7 but who is this new guy? Why is he attractive for Virtualization ladies? What’s New in vSphere 7? There are many new features and there are many removed feature, vSphere 7 has huge arms compare to vSphere 6.7 (The depressed guy). Let’s quick review about new features, I’ll publish some posts about each feature after check them on my lab. I hope that the new guy is compatible with our current hardware! But there is no information yet. He is a ghost! vSphere Lifecycle Manager Next-Gen...

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6th VMware vExpert Award

It is my honor to be selected as VMware vExpert for the sixth consecutive year. Congratulations to all my friends who are also selected.

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What’s New in Veeam Backup & Replication v10

Veeam has released latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication (Part of Veeam Availability Suite) at 18th February 2020. Veeam Backup & Replication v10 includes lot of new features and enhancements. There are many enhancements about virtual and physical environments that we will review on this post. NAS Backup First, NAS backup needs Enterprise Plus license but it allows you to take backup on SMB and NFS. It supports Scalable Architecture based on DFS that you used. Forever Incremental, Storage Snapshot and Object Storage Integration are other features which introduced in Veeam BR v10. Also Veeam Backup & Replication v10...

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STOR2RRD 2.70 Is Available Now

You know, Stor2rrd is my favorite monitoring tools for SAN. Stor2rrd 2.70 is available now with some new features and supported devices. New Storage Support Stor2rrd 2.70 has come with supporting the below storages: Dell EMC² Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) HPE Primera iXsystems FreeNAS, TrueNAS Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series Main Enhancements and Fixes The below enhancements and fixes are in Stor2rrd 2.70: Updated UI design Mappings enhancements: Graphical visualisation of SAN topology between storages and SAN switches (ports, colored links per utilisation): UI ➡ Storage ➡ Mapping ➡ SAN Topology IBM Storwize/SVC/FlashFystem: new mapping table Disk2Host under storage mapping...

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HPE Offline Bundle 3.5.0-12 for VMware ESXi

HPE Offline Bundle 3.5.0-12 for VMware ESXi includes important fixes for issues which can be cause of service down time. If you have VMware ESXi 6.5 or VMware ESXi 6.7, you must update HPE Offline Bundle to the new version (3.5.0-12).

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Dell EMC Unity OE 5.0.2.0.5.009

EMC has released new upgrade file for Unity family (5.0.2.0.5.009) but I couldn’t find Release Notes link till now. Seems, the upgrade file is contains some minor fixes and security fixes as well. (Now I know that some issues were major!) The file size is as big as previous releases, but as I know, the below security issues have been fixed on this release. (Thanks to “derWolle“, I don’t know him but he has read the post and sent me the link of release notes: https://support.emc.com/docu97010_Dell-EMC-Unity-Family-5.0.2.0.5.009-Release-Notes.pdf?language=en_US Seems, there is new feature and important fixes: Initially Configuring your Unity syste: When...

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Last HPE Pre-Gen9 ESXi 6.5 U3 Custom Image

HPE has released the last custom image for Pre-Gen9 ProLiant servers. Actually, the Pre-Gen9 was just Gen8! Seems, HPE Gen8 ProLiant is retiring. HPE released ESXi 6.7 U3 custom image as well and it does support Gen9 and Gen10. What’s Changed? Same as all previous custom images, there were some changes on device drivers, management bundles and also ESXi image. All the custom images have been created from latest ESXi image. Also you can find the other changes via the below links: ESXi 6.7 U3: Driver Versions in HPE supplied VMware ESXi images ESXi 6.5 U3 (G9 Plus, Pre-G9): Driver...