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Today VMware released a new security announcement VMSA-2020-0020. This affects VMware Workstation, Fusion and Horizon Client updates and addresses multiple security vulnerabilities

In my daily work managing a multi-tenant cloud I found that being able to provide documentation on patch management was very important. Through this post you will see the process I use to provide that documentation.

Today VMware released VMSA-2020-0019. This advisory affects VMware App Volumes. The patches address Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (CVE-2020-3975).

On 8/20 VMware released VMSA-2020-0018. This release affects VMware ESXi, vCenter Server, and Cloud Foundation. Updates address a partial denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2020-3976). Come inside for more details.

One of my favorite sessions from VeeamON 2020 was "vCloud Director Use Cases" and the section on integration of the Veeam Self-Service Portal with the vCloud Director Tenant. This post documents the setup process.

With everyone moving to Microsoft teams, I wanted to post my experience with getting vRealize Operations Manager alerts coming into Teams. This article documents the process I used to get this working in my environment.

While going through my alerts in vRealize Operations I noticed that I had an alert for my vCenter Appliance saying that I had a drive running out of disk space. Here is the process I use to expand the drive.

Just released today VMSA-2020-0017. This advisory is for VMware Fusion, VMware Remote Console and Horizon Client. These updates address a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2020-3974).

Today VMware announced VMSA-2020-0016. This advisory is for VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud, updates address SQL-injection vulnerability (CVE-2020-3973)

Today VMware released a new Critical Alert VMSA-2020-0015. This addresses several vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion. Get all the details inside.

Today VMware released VMSA-2020-0014. This affects VMware Tools for macOS addresses a denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE-2020-3972)

Today VMware released VMSA-2020-0013. This affects VMware Horizon Client for Windows. The update addresses privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2020-3961)

In doing consulting work there are a lot of times I am asked for a report on this or that. One of the most common things I am asked for is a Virtual Machine report. When this task come up I have two go to scripts.

Today VMware released VMSA-2020-0012. This affects VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion. The updates address out-of-bounds read vulnerability (CVE-2020-3960)

Today VMware released VMSA-2020-0011. This affects VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, VMware Remote Console and Horizon Client and addresses multiple security vulnerabilities(CVE-2020-3957, CVE-2020-3958, CVE-2020-3959).

Upgrading VMware Cloud Director from 9.7 to 10.1. Sharing the process and thoughts

Today VMware released VMSA-2020-0009. This affects VMware Cloud Director and updates an address Code Injection Vulnerability. (CVE-2020-3956)

VMSA-2019-0022 - VMware ESXi and Horizon DaaS updates address OpenSLP remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-5544)

VMware released VMSA-2020-0009. This affects VMware vRealize Operations Manage, and the related patches address a Authentication Bypass and Directory Traversal vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-11651, CVE-2020-11652)

Today VMware released VMSA-2020-0008. This affects VMware ESXi The related patches address a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability that was privately reported to VMware. (CVE-2020-3955)

After upgrading my domain controllers from Server 2016 to Server 2019, I wrote this script to get some basic info about my AD and do a quick health check.

VMSA-2020-0007 - VMware vRealize Log Insight addresses Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and Open Redirect vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-3953, CVE-2020-3954)

Last night VMware released VMSA-2020-006. This announcement addresses a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in the VMware Directory Service (vmdir) in vCenter Server (CVE-2020-3952). This alert affects vCenter 6.7

Leverage Powershell/Powercli to automate the Nimble Datastore build from OneView to VMware

VMSA-2020-0005 - VMware Workstation, Fusion, VMware Remote Console and Horizon Client updates address privilege escalation and denial-of- service vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-3950, CVE-2020-3951)

VMware Security Announcement VMSA-2020-0004 was updated on 3/14 and includes CVE-2019-5543, CVE-2020-3947 , CVE-2020-3948. more details inside.

Automating the provisioning of Nimble storage LUNs and creating datastores in vCenter.

VMSA-2020-0003 - vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter updates address multiple security vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-3943, CVE-2020-3944, CVE-2020-3945)

Leveraging Powercli to pull NUMA information from each cluster node and verify VM config. Then report the findings.

Vmware changes per-CPU license model effective April 2, 2020

Automating the volume creation process in HPE OneView and attaching to Synergy Server Profile. Then to VMware for Datastore creation.

VMSA-2020-0002 VMware Tools workaround addresses a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2020-3941)

vmware security announcement vmsa 2020-0001 was released to address to address Workspace One issues

Taking the recent post on the Move-CrossVC script, and creating a GUI front end for ease of use.

Moving clients into a cloud environment can be a exhausting task. Normally using VMware Converter does the trick. However Cross vCenter vMotion is an option now, here are the details on how to automate this process.

VMSA-2019-0023 VMware Workstation and Horizon View Agent updates address a DLL-hijacking issue (CVE-2019-5539)

The team I work with will be in the vmware environment doing some of the same task i do on a daily basis. So, instead of creating a folder to share these scripts, I decided to create a tool to help.

I've been asked from time to time to show the process I use to build a VM that will be used for as a SQL, Exchange, or SCCM server. I recently had to build a new SQL server, so I documented the steps.

VMware vSAN Operations Guidance is a new document on StorageHub that was developed to provide practical guidance for vSphere administrators who are looking for advice on the day-to-day operation of vSAN.

In this case, I wanted to share a script I use quite frequently. My clientbase uses the standard virtual switch, so when a new port group needs to beadded or when a new host is added it can be a lot of work to get the portgroup...

Thought I would share another script that came in handy recently. While troubleshooting an issue where a data store needed to be expanded we found that the storage would never show up on the vSphere side. On the storage side...

As a part of my job, I am constantly going through VMware infrastructure looking for ways to fine tune and check settings for best practices. One of the more common things I find when looking through Fiber Channel....

I have been using HP OneView a lot lately in my day to day. I went threw a class recently on OneView administration. The class was great, along with the usual labs giving hands on with the software, there were also a couple...

Vmware released a new update for advisory VMSA-2019-0014. See the details below along with a link to the official advisory.

Vmware released a new update for advisory VMSA-2019-0015. See the details below along with a link to the official advisory...

VMware released three new Security updates. Two are new releases, one is an update to a previously released update. VMSA-2019-0008.2, VMSA-2019-0020, and VMSA-2019-0021.