VMware Products – Upgrade and Licensing Requirements. You must keep upgrading to the new version of the existing VMware products that is used in your environment . Otherwise , VMware software might became absolute and upgrade may not be possible at one stage. Here , we will discuss more about VMware vSphere and other infrastructure […]
Oracle Solaris – Performance Troubleshooting using DTrace Toolkit
In this article, we will look at DTrace toolkit which is used to troubleshoot performance issues on Solaris operating systems. One of the co-authors of Solaris Performance and Tools [McDougall2007V2], Brendan Gregg, created this toolkit. It contains numerous d-scripts as well as Perl scripts that pre-process and post-process DTrace. DTrace toolkit is included in Oracle Solaris 11 and the […]
Create SSO Users using ssh – dir-cli – VCSA 6.5
Create SSO users using SSH session on VCSA 6.5 with help of dir-cli utility. I had faced the strange issue after VCSA 6.5 deployment on My LAB that SSO account was not created. Could be my mistake and haven’t followed the best practice for the VCSA 6.5 deployment. But I have figured out the way […]
Deploying Altaro VM Backup – Protect VMware & Hyper-V
Altaro VM Backup is affordable and easy to use backup solution for VMware vSphere and Hyper-V virtualization environments. Altaro VM Backup execute quickly and easily and it gives complete control over backup/restore jobs which is crucial. Altaro VM Backup provides you with quick access to all hosts in your environment. It supports multiple technologies like SQL, Exchange, consistent […]
How to fix Meltdown & Spectre Vulnerabilities on Redhat Linux?
Redhat is closely working with Intel and AMD to mitigate the risk of micro-architectural (hardware) implementation issues which are named as Meltdown and Spectre. These vulnerabilities are mostly affecting many modern microprocessors which include Intel, AMD, IBM power and ARM processors. These issues can be overcome by updating Linux kernel, virtualization-related components, and/or in combination with […]
Vulnerabilities – How to Fix Meltdown and Spectre on VMware vSphere ?
VMware vSphere also affected by multiple vulnerabilities since its uses Intel/AMD platforms. VMware vSphere has multiple layers of virtualization and sadly, you should apply/update the patches for all the components which includes Operating systems, virtual machines, virtual appliances, hypervisors, server firmware, and CPU microcode. Operating system patches can reduce the risk with help of hypervisor patches without […]
Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities – Big Threats
Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities have made 80% of servers as Vulnerable in overnight, thanks to Google Project Zero team and other security researchers who have brought such a worst vulnerabilities to the world (At least now). Meltdown vulnerability basically melts security boundaries which are normally enforced by the hardware (CPU). Spectre name is based on the root cause, “speculative […]
VMware VCSA 6.5 – Reset / Recover SSO Password
This article will provide a step by step procedure to reset / recover VMware vCenter SSO password. VMware vCenter server is core component of VMware vSphere. “Single Sign-On” is the main component of Platform Service Controller and responsible to provide a token to the users to access the solutions which are connected to the vCenter server. […]
VMware – VCSA 6.5 – How to Break/Reset root password ?
This article will provide step by step procedure to recover root password of VCSA 6.5 (VMware vCenter Server Appliance). On VCSA 6.5, VMware has built the appliance using their own Linux variant called Photon. This will simply VMware to simplify support and maintenance, OS/Appliance lifecycle, and streamline updates and patches. Prior to VCSA 6.5, VMware was […]
VMware vSphere with Operations Management – Licensing / Pricing
VMware vSphere is an industry-leading virtualization platform which is used 80% of datacenter around the world. VMware’s virtualization has made X86 server revolution and maximizes hardware savings through higher capacity utilization and consolidation ratios. This article will walk through about VMware Licensing, prizing and version upgrade entitlements. VMware Claims, [box type=”success” align=”” class=”” width=””]On […]