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The end of general support for vSphere 5.5 was on September 19, 2018. After you’ve made sure your environment is backed up and ready for an upgrade, the next step would be deciding what version to upgrade to and what considerations you need to make as part of the support upgrade path. You have four […]
Zerto announced Zerto Virtual Replication 6.5. As with every other release, there are few updates but to summarize here are the 4 key pillars for this release: Accelerate Cloud Foundations of Backup Deeper Analytics Platform Enhancements Accelerate Cloud With this release Zerto added support for Azure Premium Managed disks when protecting or migrating to Microsoft […]
This post provides steps for modifying the supported TLS protocols using TLS reconfiguration utility and powercli script, and disabling TLSv1.0 & TLSv1.1 within the vSphere environment. The utility/script will allow for an end-to-end disablement of TLSv1.0/TLS v1.1 across a vSphere environment. However, the vCenter Server, Platform Services Controller, and ESXi hosts within the environment must […]
Migrating Zerto Virtual Replication Database
The pktcap-uw tool is an enhanced packet capture and analysis tool that can be used in place of the legacy tcpdump-uw tool. The pktcap-uw tool is included by default in ESXi 5.5 and later versions. It was detected that running a packet capture on ESXi 6.5 hosts will cause a PSOD. This issue is known […]
Quick guide on CommServe command line reports to dump in CSV file usage periods and predictions of usage based on existing data. This and other queries can be implemented on CommServe Web Console for scheduled reports based on needs you can create a dashboard with tiles showing relevant information apart from ones provided for free and […]
Symptoms When you log in to the vSphere Replication VAMI page and click Update tab > Check Updates, you experience these symptoms: Last Check status changes to Checking for available updates… Unable to break out of this loop to update settings. Rebooting the appliance does not break the loop. Resolution To resolve the issue: Connect […]
vCloud Director, received a major upgrade to help both Cloud Providers and their enterprise customers. The new vCloud Director 9.5 enhances easy and intuitive cloud provisioning and consumption by adding highly-requested capabilities including self-service data protection, disaster recovery, and container-orchestration for cloud consumers, along with multi-site management, multi-tenancy and cross-platform networking for Cloud Providers. With […]
”L1 Terminal Fault” vulnerabilities CVE-2018-3646, CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3615 Intel has disclosed details on a new class of CPU speculative-execution vulnerabilities known collectively as “L1 Terminal Fault” that can occur on past and current Intel processors (from at least 2009 – 2018). Like Meltdown, Rogue System Register Read, and “Lazy FP state restore”, the “L1 Terminal […]
OpenManage Enterprise Tech Release is a new hardware management and monitoring console that provides a comprehensive view of the Dell EMC servers, chassis, network switches, and other third-party devices on the enterprise network. It is designed for the next generation of IT Professionals with a focus on simplicity, automation, and unification of data center management. […]