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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have published a joint security alert providing guidance on ESXiArgs ransomware virtual machine recovery. CISA has released a recovery script; the security alert offers guidance on using that script. Note Great move by CISA to provide the recovery script. The …

Both France’s and Italy’s Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) have issued alerts warning “of attack campaigns targeting VMware ESXi hypervisors with the aim of deploying ransomware on them.” The vulnerability (CVE-2021-21974) affects ESXi 7.0, 6.7 and 6.5. Support for ESXi 6.7 and 6.5 ended in October 2022. The flaw was disclosed, and a fix was …

VMware has released updates to fix four vulnerabilities in its vRealize Log Insight product. Two of the flaws are critical: a directory traversal vulnerability and a broken access control vulnerability. Both could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. The other fixed flaws are a deserialization vulnerability that could be exploited to create denial of …

Question What is the best way to find out whether the server hardware is supported with ESXi 7 or not? Should I run this via the vSphere client or there is a hardware list that VMware has so that I can go look the supported server hardware? Answer The minimum hardware and system specification supported …

This article describes how to check and add/remove CPU in a virtual setting. Solution Sometimes, there is a mismatch between the CPUs showing in the system and those appearing in the license. With the below commands, one can check and adjust accordingly. To check how many CPUs are used: # execute cpu show To add …

Updated on 2022-11-11: VMware Workspace ONE Assist Updates Fix Critical Flaws VMware has released updates to address three critical vulnerabilities in its Workplace ONE Assist remote access tool. The flaws, an authentication bypass issue, a broken authentication method, and broken authentication control, have received CVSSv3 scores of 9.8. The updates also address two moderate severity …

You are more likely using VMware or Hyper-V if running virtual machines in the organization. Due to increasing number of Hyper-V users, you will need suitable and effective method to backup Hyper-V virtual machines as preventive measure for data protection against data threats. Backup and replicate Hyper-V virtual machines allow you to roll back in …

Updated on 2022-12-29 K7 has a report out on recent Lazarus APT operations, namely, one baiting users with job vacancies at Coinbase that try to infect victims with macOS malware. Read more: Lazarus APT’s Operation Interception Uses Signed Binary Updated on 2022-12-26 The Lazarus threat group is linked to a massive phishing campaign that targeted …

This article will guide you on how to create different types of Virtual Switches in Hyper-V host and configure VMs to use the newly created Virtual Switches as per requirement. The steps given in this article applies to Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2016.

Question When migrating VMWare virtual machine from Compellent SAN to new Dell PowerStore SAN, a minimum requirement of ESX 6.7 Update 1 on the host in order to do an Agentless Import. The ESXi installation is on SD Card. I will be upgrading the hosts (three) and vSphere to Version 7 beforehand. I have questions …

Question I am running vSphere Client version 7.0.1 with VMware ESXi, 6.7.0. I’d like to know how Storage, RAM and CPU are taken away from resources from host. I want understand how to plan for future VMs and how do I know when I need to add more Host? The detail environment about 3 ESXi …

Question When I try to unmount a datastore from the ESXi host using vSphere Web Client, an error about resource datastore is in use is showing. How can I determine what is causing the datastore to be busy? How do I unmount a datastore from ESXi Host in the vSphere Web Client when getting an …

Problem Symptom When attempting to install Windows 11 on ESX for example vSphere 6.7, error “This PC can’t run Windows 11” will show and prevent to proceed the installation. “This PC can’t run Windows 11” error probably caused by the installation environment not fulfill the RAM, CPU, or storage requirements especially TPM 2.0 chip. You …

Problem Symptom I’ve set the PowerChute Virtual Appliance and it works. I need to shut down the VM but can’t find the way how. The Console asks for Credentials but the only ones I have are those used to access the Web Page of the PowerChute which don’t work. The Web Page itself doesn’t list …

Problem Symptom Rebooting production servers is always a difficult and complicated process. If you use the Automatic Upgrade option for upgrading VMware Tools from vSphere, the production server will automatically reboot after the upgrade is finished. This article will show you how to prevent server from reboot automatically after VMware Tools have been upgraded. Solution …