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Date: 29 July 2026Advisory: VMSA-2026-0006Severity: Critical (CVSS 2.7–9.8)Affected Products: ESX, vCenter, Workstation, Fusion, Cloud Foundation, vSphere Foundation, Telco Cloud Platform, Telco Cloud InfrastructureWorkaround: NoneFix Available: Yes Broadcom has published VMSA-2026-0006, …
In our customer environment, we use templates for VM deployments and sometimes leverage VMware PowerCLI to automate the creation of multiple VMs at once. This PowerShell script is tailored to our needs. It connects to …
Part 2: Dynamic Provisioning with a PVC and a Pod Continuing the CKA prep series with dynamic provisioning. In this blog post, I’ll be creating a PVC and a Pod. This is a follow-up post from my first …
When you deploy a vCenter Server in a vDS-only environment during Stage 1 of the VCSA upgrade, you won’t see any Standard Switch port group options on the network configuration page. That’s expected: in a vDS-only …
Part 1: StorageClasses This is my first blog post about containerization and orchestration. The goal is to learn and pass the CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) exam. While preparing for my exam, I’ll create …
VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3j (P09) is worth applying, especially if you run Secure Boot-enabled VMs. This patch, released on 27 May 2026 as ISO Build 25429389, includes a key fix that …
This was supposed to be boring. A classic hardware case: one faulty M.2 disk, a RAID-1 mirror, ESXi booting happily from a virtual disk. The kind of thing you expect …
When I first became part of the vExpert Program, nothing fundamentally changed overnight. I didn’t suddenly work harder, learn faster, or care more about technology. I was already doing those …
This is a straightforward, step-by-step guide on how to upgrade ESXi from version 7.x to 8.x using esxcli.I used this method when one of the hosts in the cluster got …
Date: 15 July 2025 Advisory: VMSA-2025-0013 Severity: Critical (CVSS 6.2–9.3) Affected Products: ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, VMware Tools, Cloud Foundation, Telco Cloud Workaround: None Fix Available: Yes Broadcom has published VMSA-2025-0013, …