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I also have a personal review blog <a href="http://plain-reviews.blogspot.com">http://plain-reviews.blogspot.com</a> on experience, gadgets, services, tip, etc.Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.comBlogger392125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-65169089618877494802024-03-11T21:44:00.000+08:002024-03-11T21:44:13.000+08:00VMSA-2024-0006 USB and Out-of-bounds write vulnerability<p>VMware has release important patches based on the <a href="https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2024-0006.html" target="_blank">advisory</a> affecting all the hypervisor including ESXi and desktop hypervisor i.e. Workstation and Fusion which contain vulnerabilities that has a CVSSv3 of 7.1-9.3.</p><p>Most of the listed are all USB related. Most of this might nto affect ESXi since most do not use USB controller on them but more towards the desktop hypervisors.</p><p>Patches are released fro ESXi 7 and 8 and Workstation 17 and Fusion 13.</p><p>And since this is a critical severity, VMware has release patches for out of support ESXi 6.5U3v and 6.7U3u for customers on extended support. This also include VCF 3.x that happens to run such version of ESXi. </p><p>I hope everyone should have upgraded as a best practice to at least ESXi 7 to avoid such issue where you are not on support and yet running critical workload.</p><p>If you are still on ESXi 6.5U3v and ESXi 6.7U3u, I would assume you have extended support to tie you through. Do note that if you manage to get the patches from other source without extended support entitlement, you are on your own when you face any issues after applying the patches. I encourage anyone to run on supported version or at least have extended support for any reasons you cannot upgrade.</p><p><br /></p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-7265495635398263552024-02-27T21:30:00.001+08:002024-02-27T21:30:00.131+08:00Congrats to all VMware by Broadcom vExpert 2024<p>A big congratulation to all the vExpert accredited for year 2024 that is <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/vexpert/2024/02/22/vexpert-2024-awards-announcement/" target="_blank">announced</a>! This year we have a total of 1226 vExperts and you can find them <a href="https://vexpert.vmware.com/directory" target="_blank">here</a>. Those who didn't make it or miss the application, fear not. The 2nd application period will be in Jun 2024. You will have time to make up if you are missing some activities to proof your worth.</p><p>I am fortunate enough to be part of list. Also as a vExpert Pro helping with the application was not easy. </p><p>Having been assessing the applications with many other Pros, here are some of the do's and don'ts when applying:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Don't be lazy and submit your past application details as it is. Assessment for vExpert for the year look at your past contribution to the VMware community over the last 6-12 months. If you are just submitting as it is, your activities will be unlikely be recent at all.</li><li>Provide evidence of your contribution. Do not just state them. It will be impossible to verify what you say. If it is a blog please provide the URL. If it is in VMTN, provide the thread wherever possible. Often I see people putting their VMTN, but has no activities.</li><li>Show your effort and your skills of reporting. By reposting advocacy post are not an activities. Everyone can do that. Everyone can be vExpert that way. We look at contribution not contributing by posting other's content. If your blog article copies from somewhere else, that doesn't add up.</li><li>Is that work you do part of your job? If it is, that is not community effort. Can you tell your boss you do not want to post one article into your company's site? That would mean a work related article.</li><li>Check your reference. Do not just happily place a VMware employee as your reference and hoping it will grant you vExpert. That person will be contacted to ask for your work contribution. It will do you more harm and help if he or she say you didn't or have left the company. Which means, there is no way to verify.</li><li>Provide evidence of your contribution to the community. Not your own self development work. Stating all your certifications you have with VMware is not a community contribution. I have seen applications with tons of certifications but no activities.</li></ol><div><br /></div><div>Lastly, the vExpert accreditation is to reward someone who have contributed to the community for the past year. A reason this is a yearly program. It does not mean you got it this year you will continue to be rewarded every year. If there is at any time no contribution, there will be no accreditation. But you do not lose the year you have achieve it. It carries on from the day you regain that title.</div><p></p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-64592102639882538152024-02-13T23:49:00.004+08:002024-02-13T23:57:37.214+08:00End of free vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x and 8.x)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpXTcZ3gV1zagaRwhODCNk54qF2lR-WLZMZOUUF2_z7gGqQMmlGAL4AghVBLytqDHv28gAXL6bAnuUJNcjwbH-fASOyVH9h2001JD9Rl6kZ7TpaQRolwleR7dpAFXoGmyEwYPklaAIjKuNoXt1UxHrxdlfQdQMAcNz_y73O6bYAsgrUSszBJtXNkhCf_w/s303/rip%20esxi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="277" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpXTcZ3gV1zagaRwhODCNk54qF2lR-WLZMZOUUF2_z7gGqQMmlGAL4AghVBLytqDHv28gAXL6bAnuUJNcjwbH-fASOyVH9h2001JD9Rl6kZ7TpaQRolwleR7dpAFXoGmyEwYPklaAIjKuNoXt1UxHrxdlfQdQMAcNz_y73O6bYAsgrUSszBJtXNkhCf_w/w180-h197/rip%20esxi.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><p><br /></p>With the <a href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/96168" target="_blank">announcement</a> of the end of perpetual license for VMware products moving forward, there are also other changes especially in regards to the free ESXi.<br /><br />As per <a href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2107518" target="_blank">KB</a> on 12th Feb 2024 states, the free ESXi or free vSphere hypervisor is no longer made available.<p></p><p>This came as a surprise to me. In fact, many of our home lab and evangelist are using the free hypervisor to learn VMware solution. With this gone, this will definitely affect the fan base and results in many to use alternative.</p><p>Didn't expected this to come. But understandable that Broadcom might want to stop those who are leveraging on free hypervisor for commercial use. Which I know of some who does.</p><p>I would rather they change the EULA and make it fully personal license, which mean Broadcom can actually use legal action if found anyone using it for commercial reason. </p><p>But sadly, this got to happen.</p><p>At least the free ESXi has a good run.</p><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-34212241681636624602024-02-01T09:30:00.028+08:002024-02-01T09:30:00.250+08:00End of VMware Perpetual License is not the End of vSphere<p>VMware has been trying to transit to subscription licensing for a long time which what all other software companies have already done. With Broadcom acquisition, the perpetual licensing availability is no longer available as announced <a href="https://news.vmware.com/company/vmware-by-broadcom-business-transformation" target="_blank">here</a> and a <a href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/96168" target="_blank">KB</a> on this. There is a good blog <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/01/22/vmware-end-of-availability-of-perpetual-licensing-and-saas-services/" target="_blank">article</a> that just got release to show where each product packaging is replaced with. There are just some things I like to highlight. vCenter Server is no longer available as it is no longer selling as a standalone product but it comes free as part of the new subscription licensing. Another item, vCloud Director, which will only be available to Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and not to end user which this article is addressing to.</p><p>Many might say that why is VMware by Broadcom removing the perpetual licensing. Let's take a moment, it has been a long overdue move that just got accelerated. In fact, if not all, software companies such as Microsoft, Citrix, etc. are all on subscriptions and VMware has been one of the last if not the last to have transit to a subscription licensing model. This would not have come as a surprise. Since software would need to be constantly upgraded and perpetual licensing just would not help accelerate that growth and innovation. </p><p>Even consumer software such as Adobe, Microsoft office are moving that direction. As a consumer myself, I also hate the idea but we have been in the perpetual brought for the longest time and the switch just make it feel unjust. But we do like to see more innovation and functions been brought into the software we keen to be using. So we will just have to accept the change.</p><p>Many might also got confused by many FUD on the media such as this <a href="https://www.thestack.technology/vmware-is-killing-off-56-products-including-vsphere-hypervisor-and-nsx/" target="_blank">article</a> which was brought up to my attention which confuses one of my VMUG member thinking vSphere is gone. Poor and misleading write up that causes much confusion. So yes, VMware is no longer selling many product as a standalone product but that does not mean it is doing it away.</p><p>Let's just put it simple, vSphere is definitely still around and its still the best platform that industry trust. VMware's other solutions all revolve around vSphere and support nothing out of vSphere. vSAN and NSX are just to list some. They have no use case in MS Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer. It works only vSphere. So bundling it together with vSphere in a VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) bundle make sense. If you think about it, supporting only one platform, makes the technology more mature on one and only platform. Just like iOS from Apple only works on iPhone and it has been doing just great on that.</p><p>With the bundle, it makes most sense for customer who are using more than just vSphere and pricing can be if not more attractive. I leave that to you to work out with your partner and VMware account team.</p><p>However, if you ain't using that much, there is the VVF (VMware vSphere Foundation). Still have the trustworthy vSphere and the trusted monitoring just for vSphere, Aria Operations. So you do not have to depend on non-trust worthy tools that doesn't really give you the true data from vSphere.</p><p>Honestly, many media channels are paid by competitive vendor/s to project uncertainty. I would encourage everyone to speak to the source, your account team from VMware to understand more than to judge a source with no backing of evidence but invaluable bluff.</p><p><br /></p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-48242192436385044652024-01-16T21:30:00.003+08:002024-02-13T23:32:37.859+08:00Sizing VMware VCF VVF vSphere License<p>With the new SKU release in simplifying customer purchase, there are certain guideline in place in purchasing the different license SKU. To help architects from partners and also end user, I have created this simple calculator for ease of sizing the license needed.</p><p>Do note this is accurate at time of publishing and there might be changes.</p><p>Here is the <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hFks_feqqf8riijT7sqmuGlu3Rs19qsQgUJPy8Ns3ps/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">link</a> to VMware License Calculator.</p><p>Feel free to leave me any comments below.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Update 13th Feb 2024</b></p><p>The minimum requirement for vSAN Add-on has been removed. There is no longer a 8TiB per CPU requirement as updated on <a href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/95927" target="_blank">KB</a>.</p>
<br />Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-90463428861356601772024-01-04T09:30:00.000+08:002024-01-04T09:30:00.128+08:00New VMware Software Licensing Resources<p>After the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom, there has been <a href="https://news.vmware.com/company/vmware-by-broadcom-business-transformation" target="_blank">announcement</a> on simplifying the way VMware software licensing will work. That was a very bold step to really help customers. There maybe lots of comments over it, but if you have never been into an architecture discussion and having to also coming out a licensing strategy, you might not appreciate this change.</p><p>In additional, in totality, customer will find that the cost might just be much affordable than before. Contact your VMware Account Manager to find out more.</p><p>So let's go back to the present. Existing customer who might have renewal ending and would definitely need to know how much license they would need to procure. The well known William Lam, definitely not leaving VM Admin challenges. He has <a href="https://williamlam.com/2024/01/automating-counting-cores-tibs-for-new-vmware-vsphere-foundation-vvf-and-vmware-cloud-foundation-vcf-skus.html" target="_blank">created</a> a PowerCLI script to help customer pull out those needed information to help existing brownfield customers forward. </p><p>Next to help understand what are the new criteria needed to purchase the new license, this is a <a href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/95927" target="_blank">kb</a> release to help understand for architects who need to do such planning during a architecture review.</p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-20257287498439878992023-12-14T21:30:00.002+08:002023-12-17T07:51:06.769+08:00VMware by Broadcom, A New Chapter Forward<p>With Broadcom <a href="https://investors.broadcom.com/news-releases/news-release-details/broadcom-completes-acquisition-vmware" target="_blank">acquisition</a> of VMware completing in 22nd Nov, there have been lots of assumption made by many sources what will become of the business direction.</p><p>Here are some of the updates that are publicly announced if you have not catch up on the news. To start with, VMware is now known as VMware by Broadcom and all originally VMware software will remain to be branded under VMware.</p><p>The first announcement 27th November, Carbon Black is <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2023/11/carbon-black-is-back.html" target="_blank">now</a> an autonomous unit within Broadcom. In my opinion this is good news. I have seen not much integration on Carbon Black ever since acquired by VMware so with that move, it allows Carbon Black to innovate and do what they do best in Cyber security landscape.</p><p>Next from the acquisition completion, there are many speculation on after the acquisition what will end up of End User Computing? With the <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2023/12/an-exciting-new-era-for-end-user-computing.html" target="_blank">announcement</a> on 8th December, The End User Computing (EUC) division will be a diverse business. With that understanding, EUC division will operate on their own with VMware concentrating on the platform, EUC will have the full ownership on end user solutions strategy and experience direction. Not to forget, one of EUC offering, VMware Horizon, depends alot on the platform. In my opinion, this would allows EUC to innovate their offerings such as Horizon to support perhaps multi-hypervisor? Or even do more than they can before VMware. Having full control of what they like to do freely.</p><p>With the EUC division operating on their own, many would wonder does that means the desktop hypervisor such as Fusion and Workstation will follow suit? </p><p>On 11th December, two announcements were made.</p><p><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/12/a-new-chapter.html" target="_blank">One</a>, the desktop hypervisor will remain in main VMware business. This is definitely understandable as many of the feature or function of the well known vSphere has always come from the desktop hypervsior first before introduced into the main platform.</p><p><a href="https://plain-virt.blogspot.com/2023/12/vmware-simplifies-license-model.html" target="_blank">Two</a>, which I have posted earlier, is to streamline their pasts complicated licensing model. In a way, merging all the products pillar under VMware Cloud Foundation. With this move, there are also cost optimization been done to the offering which made it even more beneficial for many new or existing customers.</p><p>From all the announcement made, we can clearly see where the main VMware is putting their focus and concentration. I definitely for one will be looking forward on what is coming in innovation from VMware just like in the past in the next momentum with the focus now been addressed.</p><p>Let's wait and check out what's next.</p><p><br /></p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-14620913208253751852023-12-12T22:01:00.001+08:002023-12-12T22:03:30.148+08:00VMware Simplifies License Model<p>Hot from the oven, VMware by Broadcom has just release their first announcement regarding the go to market since acquisition <a href="https://news.vmware.com/company/vmware-by-broadcom-business-transformation" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>This definitely is much welcome. In the past, it take someone to study the licenses to really make sense and advise customer the right way to purchase them. That complicate things. However, with this new introduction, its makes it much easier for customer to consume.</p><p>Many might be very surprise, what many have assumed how Broadcom will do to their customer by increasing x amount in pricing ends up reducing it and easier to consume.</p><p>Basically from all the products and their editions, all have been collapse to just two product: VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation.</p><p>Clearly the above are targetted to two different segment of customers. Also to note that both are only available in subscription offering and works either in connected or disconnect mode.</p><p>As per FAQ, for customer who are on perpetual licenses, will no longer be able to purchase new perpetual licenses and license renewal on Support and Subscription (SnS).</p><p>Based on license EULA, customer who do own perpetual license needs valid SnS in order to utilize them. So if your renewal happens to be round the corner, it is good time to explore the new product licenses and how it might impact you.</p><p>Till then, that is as much we know. Broadcom will release more information as more are introduced. </p><p>To find out more, contact your local VMware contact.</p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-82522787897713826462023-11-30T21:30:00.005+08:002023-12-30T06:51:25.463+08:00VMware vExpert 2024 Application is Now Open!<div>I believe many would have wonder if the vExpert Program will continue since VMware has been acquired by Broadcom recently.</div><div><br /></div><div>I am glad to announce that <a href="https://vexpert.vmware.com/directory/pro#1617" target="_blank">Corey Romero</a> the program manager for VMware vExpert is continuing the support for the program and this is also Broadcom is supportive of it community recognition. Just for information, VMware User Group is here to stay!</div><div><br /></div>For those who are not aware, the VMware vExpert 2024 application is now open. You can follow the post <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/vexpert/2023/11/16/vexpert-2024-application-support-program-resources/" target="_blank">here</a>. There are calls and multiple resources to help you out with your applications and explanation to the different path.<div><br /></div><div>Do take note you can fill in the form and save it and submit before 15 Dec 2023 closing date. So take your time to collect your thoughts on your contribution to the VMware community. There is no rush to fill it up at one go.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you need any advice or help, and need to talk to someone, go to the <a href="https://vexpert.vmware.com/directory/pro" target="_blank">vExpert Pro</a> directory and find someone near you. I am honoured to be part of this directory.</div><div><br /></div><div>Personally I sit in Singapore(Asia), so for anyone who need any help, feel free to ping me.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Update</b></div><div>The submission entry has been extend to <b>19th Jan 2024</b> as updated on <a href="https://vexpert.vmware.com/" target="_blank">https://vexpert.vmware.com/</a>.</div>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-43835514448158326282023-11-15T11:46:00.008+08:002023-11-15T11:47:04.267+08:00Security Advisory: VMware Cloud DirectorAnother high rating of CVSSv3 of 9.8 was released <a href="https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0026.html">here</a> on VMware Cloud Director appliance.<br /><br />For those not aware, the virtual appliance is a prepackaged virtual machine with added configuration bedded in for easy deployment.<br /><br />This time it is due to authentication bypass vulnerability which allows a user to bypass authenticating on port 22 (ssh) or port 5480 after upgraded to version 10.5 from a previously older version.<br /><br />To resolve this, the updated <a href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/95534" target="_blank">kb</a> has been released and it provide a script for the workaround to fix this.<div><br /></div><div>Do note that this affect only VMware Cloud Director version 10.5 which was upgraded from older version. Not on new deployment or other versions.</div>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-25309207281306152282023-10-29T13:44:00.003+08:002023-11-15T11:47:15.107+08:00Security Advisory: VMware Tools<p>A security advisory <a href="https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0024.html" target="_blank">VMSA-2023-0024</a> has been release regarding VMware Tools. This compromises of two CVEs namely: CVE-2023-34057, CVE-2023-34058 which carries a CVSSv3 of 7.8 and 7.5 respectively.</p><p>This mainly affect the host that is running on MacOS or Windows OS with specific VMware Tools version. Both of which are related to bypassing and gaining privilege access. </p><p>The one of MacOS might be least impacted since most customer only run MacOS in Fusion or Workstation.</p><p>Do note and have them updated as the fixed version has been released.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-7729531550662192072023-10-26T00:44:00.000+08:002023-10-26T00:44:04.495+08:00VMware vCenter Server VMSA-2023-0023<p>VMware has release a security advisory regarding vCenter Server. You can refer <a href="https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0023.html" target="_blank">here</a>. This advisory is to address CVE-2023-34048 and CVE-2023-34056 which has a score on CVSSv3 of 9.8 and 4.3.</p><p>This applies to vCenter Server version 7.x and 8.x which also affect VCF 3.x and 4.x which uses these vCenter Server version. The resolution is to apply the fixed version released. Do read carefully if there are any caveats for any particular build when you are updating.</p><p>All of the above has been summarize in this <a href="https://core.vmware.com/resource/vmsa-2023-0023-questions-answers#current-update" target="_blank">article</a> which was released on 24th October. Do take some time to read it and understand the risk and impact.</p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-69676476922870502332023-10-03T21:30:00.004+08:002023-10-13T00:02:45.260+08:00VMware Certification Upgrade or Renew<p>I haven't been actively looking at VMware certification upgrade or into exam writing over more than a year. My certification has been at least 2 version back last was due to developing the initial vSphere 7.0 back in 2021. VMware has since remove the so call "expiration" of certification.</p><p>Since due to Broadcom acquisition, was looking at my own certification making sure it is updated and all was dated 2021 version. Which means I would need to pass one exam which is current as documented <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/learning/2022/02/28/certification-upgrade-policy-update/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>If your exam is just a year before, the requirement is just to attend a recommended course instead of an exam. So if you have not updated to the current year and is just one year before, a course would make the most sense.</p><p>In my case, I would not have to take an exam if I have attend a course last year and to renew this year, would be another course.</p><p>The good news is, if you own both VCP or VCAP of the same track and year, you only need to take the higher (in my case, VCAP) and do not have to retake your VCP as long you are still eligible for renewal as in not more than 3 versions.</p><p>So do watch out and take note since we have about 3 more months to end the year.</p><p>Good Luck!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Update 12th Oct 2023</b></p><p>Upon passing my VCAP-DCV Design 2023 from 2021, I got my VCIX update to 2023. So I do not have to prepare for my VCAP-Deploy 2023 after all.</p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-74700020107295655262023-09-29T21:30:00.002+08:002023-10-12T10:37:00.000+08:00Deprecated of USB and SD Card for ESXi installation<p>Back in vSphere 7 there was mention of deprecation of USB and SD Card due to reliability issue of such storage disk used for ESXi installation. Often than not, even in my home lab, I always encounter these USB sticks failure causing my host to not boot up after shutting down or doing a restart.</p><p>VMware has now official state the deprecation of such support starting from vSphere 8. Which means, vSphere 8.0 will be the last version to support such storage devices as ESXi installation disk. I believe most customer would have moved off USB and SD Card since vSphere mentioned previously.</p><p>More servers nowadays also support SATADOM SSD which is ideally better than a normal server HDD which might be too huge and wasted for use.</p><p>Do refer to this <a href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/85685" target="_blank">KB</a> on information regarding this and I hope everyone should not be considering using any more USB or SD card.</p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-48351718633464131562023-08-29T21:30:00.001+08:002023-10-12T10:38:21.451+08:00NIAP Certification for VMware EUC Solutions<p>Two years ago, VMware manage to have VMware Boxer mail mobile client getting certificate for NIAP. It was the first mobile email client that has gotten this type of certification. Till date it is still the only mobile email client. This shows the security standard that Boxer has adhere to definitely isn't little.</p><p>Having companied customer down to VMware Headquarters in Palo Alto in August and manage to know that VMware Horizon 8 has also achieved the same standard for NIAP in July 2023. This mark VMware Horizon as the first VDI solution to have met such standard and till date the only VDI solution in the market as well.</p><p>Since VDI is often use as a main use case as a security solution to safe guard against IP thief and other use cases related, that a user requires full desktop access yet controls across the desktop are implemented, achieving this standard of certification is definitely proof VMware Horizon security standard.</p><p>Please check out NAIP website <a href="https://www.niap-ccevs.org/Product/PCL.cfm" target="_blank">here</a> for the list of VMware products that hold certificates from NIAP.</p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-57973288113483137632023-06-21T09:50:00.004+08:002023-06-21T09:50:47.628+08:00Security Alert: Aria Operations for Networks<p>If you are using Aria Operations for Networks, you might want to take note of this vulnerabilities and get it patch up as soon as possible. This carries a CVSSv3 rating up to 9.8 which is a very critical rating.</p><p>It allows an attacker to be able to access and gain access to information from Aria Operations for Networks.</p><p>Do check out the securities <a href="https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0012.html" target="_blank">advisories</a> for the fixed version and act accordingly.</p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-84721991958592905672023-05-09T21:30:00.015+08:002023-05-11T10:22:32.421+08:00Lock In or Not<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" class="placeholder" id="ed0a78af3dfce" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/transparent.gif" style="background-color: #d8d8d8; background-image: url('https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/i/materialiconsextended/insert_photo/v6/grey600-24dp/1x/baseline_insert_photo_grey600_24dp.png'); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; opacity: 0.6;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.westisliplibrary.org/main/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/lock-in.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="620" height="348" src="https://www.westisliplibrary.org/main/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/lock-in.jpeg" width="620" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><br />The term "lock in" has been there for many reasons.<p></p><p>Recently was in a discussion with some customers and this term came about again.</p><p>Let's first define "lock in". In the context of IT, "lock in" prevent customers from moving away from an adopted technology, or you call in trapped. Using example of mainframe. Once an application runs mainframe, there is no alternative replacement. The only way to move out is to look for a replacement doing a complete refactor and hoping that data can still be utilised. That also explains, in the early days when mainframe was introduced till date, most are still on it. Also of course not mentioning the reliability and downtime that mainframe provide. At that point in time, there were only less than a handful of mainframe system e.g. IBM, Compaq Tandem, etc. and the technology offered were far beyond any others. At today's context, technology choices of a similar domain are massive. Even though mainframe might be an lock in. It is still customer owned. Customer owned the data.</p><p>Next came Unix, where Sun, HP, IBM, etc. came with theirs. Where applications can run on either of these platform, a complete migration is still needed to move off these09. Majority of it got lost along the way. Customers who are impacted will need to migrate off Unix to Linux or change to the rest of the surviving Unix offering. Still data is customer own.</p><p>Next came virtualization from VMware and followed by Microsoft, Citrix, Redhat and latest that joins the game, Nutanix. Here you will find tons of tools to migrate off VMware but hardly any for other vendors. </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Question: Would a "lock in " platform has more tools to migrate off it or less?</b></p><p>Then came the public cloud service providers (CSPs) each providing their common and unique set of tools and services. Attracting the user to adopt their native services by providing easy to use onboarding tools and/or free trainings. The next thing you realize, is when cost or policy guideline requires you to move elsewhere, you maybe unable to due to the proprietary service that belongs to one provider and not another. The fast to consume might just got you trapped. If the cost were to increase by multiple folds, what would you do? Getting adopting a technology does not put away the fundamental planning for exist. In the on premise design, we often have a disaster recovery site for that. What have you got in a Cloud Service Provider other than the Available Zones, how can you move easily to another CSP or back on premises if a call for such requirement is needed?</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Question: What would be your exit strategy? </b></p><p>The IT industry and technology is fast scaling and when coming to adopt and assess technology to use, often we left out the importance. As not to repeat history itself, customers have to properly perform their assessment whether a technology has a replacement or ease to migrate off when needed due to any policy changes, requirement, etc. Such as when using cloud native services, we would consider if the same service or any open source favour of it is available in other provider so as not to lock one self in to one.</p><p>Some customers, started to build their own API gateway to layer on top of these cloud service providers so that there is no need to customize to one native cloud service provider API and build another for another CSP. </p><p>How easy to migrate off one platform to the next? What tools are available for migration? Perhaps a closed system would have little to no tools which resulted in the "lock in". Where an open platform would have tons of tools to help migrate you off. This can be one of your assessment criteria.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>What can be an ideal solution architect?</b></p><p>Can we leverage on a common platform in every CSP and leverage on the PaaS and SaaS that they provide? When there is a need to move around CSPs, this will not be a show stopper but only consuming the PaaS and SaaS from the different CSPs that provide the same services.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Some thoughts: Who is the real retailer, banks, etc.?</b></p><p>Imagine if every industry workload is lock in to a single platform. Just like how applications that runs on Mainframe is today. Except now customer own the data, but the provider also owned the assets. Ever wonder, who is the real industry owners by then. Are the banks still the banks? The government still the governments? The retailers still the retailers? Or are they owned by someone now. If you ever thought of it, why would cloud providers so willing to invest millions of dollars even without any return of interest? Is the return that good eventually? </p><p><br /></p><p>Disclaimer: All product names are used for illustration purpose</p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-78153185072087196682023-05-04T21:30:00.001+08:002023-05-04T21:30:00.132+08:00Dell VxRail Appliance Design and Best Practices<div class="separator"><div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVbcerrkc1qQ5KoVTb0ioYa9w_2L2kTaWG5mx2at2ZP4pRa2YsfDvg5DEotp2gtP0GAPxkG8BH5L4NAUFkiYkr4bjN_LSRpM37UMjTYeBdUjeOFrvXOnCfLfRB-cjNh73qd6RcolQMnoiminY86CF0FOjbOvCCr7yZFEy7Yy9AYwcReo1lMN85uCt5" style="text-align: center;" width="400" /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you have not heard of Dell VxRaill appliance, you might just want to check it out. Just giving a short summary, this is a purposeful engineered appliance between Dell and VMware. Optimized to run vSphere, and vSAN which is VMware hypervisor and HCI solution.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It comes with its own lifecycle management deeply integrated with VMware vCenter Server for lifecycle management as well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Such a beast of all appliance definitely comes with some design and best practices which will help you get the most out of it. So the right guy who have it al written down would be, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-wu-95a07022" target="_blank">Victor Wu</a>. Victor is no stranger to Dell and VMware. He has been a great advocate on the two and more. This is not his first and won't be his last book I suppose. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was fortunate to have received a copy from him. Definitely worth a read if you are trying to get updated and understand more why some of the design and best practice. Some of it could also be used on other systems. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Do check it out <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dell-VxRail-System-Design-Practices/dp/1804617709/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CWU6AL5FJ5QC&keywords=dell+vxrail+system+design+and+best+practices&qid=1683164351&sprefix=dell+vxrail+%252Caps%252C418&sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=tanwk3-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=e0fb273336146dae90bbda5595cddc3b&camp=1789&creative=9325" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Dell VxRail System Design and Best Pr</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dell-VxRail-System-Design-Practices/dp/1804617709/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CWU6AL5FJ5QC&keywords=dell+vxrail+system+design+and+best+practices&qid=1683164351&sprefix=dell+vxrail+%252Caps%252C418&sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=tanwk3-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=e0fb273336146dae90bbda5595cddc3b&camp=1789&creative=9325" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">actices</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">
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Though this will not affect many customers, VMware is committed to have this worked on perhaps to remove this limit.</p><p>While that is at work, it is good to know and be aware when architecting.</p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-41623763138943213262023-03-16T21:30:00.005+08:002023-03-16T21:30:00.176+08:00vSphere 8 Update 1 and vSAN 8 Update 1<p> If you have not been following, VMware has quietly release update 1 for both vSphere and vSAN close to 3 months after the major release of version 8 for both. Catch announcement of <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2023/03/announcing-vsphere-8-update-1.html" target="_blank">vSphere 8 Update 1</a> and <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2023/03/14/announcing-vsan-8-update-1/" target="_blank">vSAN 8 update 1</a>.</p><p>Here I will consolidate some of the read up to do a fast catch up.</p><p>vSphere 8 Update 1</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://core.vmware.com/resource/whats-new-vsphere-8-update-1" target="_blank">What's New</a></li></ul><p></p><p>Major feature summary</p><p>Ability to attached a cluster Configuration Profile. Similar like how Host Profile works, but this is at cluster level. You will need to remove Host Profile from existing host in order to use Configuration Profile.</p><p>vSphere Lifecycle Manager no longer just support cluster level. Now it can also be used for single standalone host as long it is managed by vCenter Server.</p><p>Mixed GPU profile support in a single cluster. Prior to vSphere 8 Update 1, each cluster must use the same GPU profile for host leveraging on GPU. This version allows a mixed setup of GPU profile type.</p><p>Support for Supervisor services when using virtual distributed switch. You will not be able to manage the lcm of the Supervisor Services and also run multiple version in a Supervisor.</p>Admin or DevOps can now initiate image build pipeline to create VM images with support for CloudInit or vAppConfig. This in turn can add these VM images to Content Library and be used by DevOps.<div><br /></div><div>VM Consoles for DevOPs user which will be generated with a unique URL generated using kubectl, which is valid for 2 minutes to access the console of the VMs. This remove the needs to allow DevOps users to have access to vSphere Client.</div><div><br /></div><div>vSphere FT now support for VM with vTPM.</div><div><br /></div><div>OKTA identity federation with vCenter Server. Prior, the only identify federation was with Azure MFA.</div><div><br /><p>vSAN 8 Update 1</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://core.vmware.com/blog/virtually-speaking-podcast-announcing-vsan-8-update-1" target="_blank">podcast</a></li></ul><div><br /></div><div>This article will be updated when more material are release.</div><p></p></div>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-78231103861591810252023-03-07T21:30:00.005+08:002023-05-04T08:14:29.163+08:00Soverign Cloud. What to look out for?<p>We heard much of Sovereign Cloud. This term is very new to many and many are also new to the term at the same time like myself. The word, "Sovereign" can means many things from different people just like when the term, "Hybrid Cloud" was introduced.</p><p>Let take a look what Sovereign Cloud really meant and what it is meant to address and understand some of the things to look out for.</p><p>Sovereignty come with many variable. It can be from hosting location, to the operational of things and also the owning of assets. One of the key sovereignty, is about data. </p><p>To start with, VMware release an <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud/2022/08/30/choosing-the-right-cloud-for-data-sovereignty/" target="_blank">article</a> on data sovereignty. Do check it out to understand more. </p><p>In summary, data sovereignty dictates where the data will reside. Whether is it been transported to other places such as replication, and so forth. Should it stays within the land of a countries, if so, replication will be within data centers (AZs) within the counties instead of out.</p><p>Though one may be able to achieve data sovereignty, there are still some other considerations whether to adopt complete cloud on premise solution to achieved Sovereign Cloud.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Is it fully run and managed by one entity such as AWS, Azure, etc. which is a US company which needs to comply with US regulations. In this case, <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 16px;">Patriot Act</span>. In such, hardware, software and operations are all operated under a <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 16px;">US headquartered business</span></p><p>Even if you store your data outside of US but the cloud provider who falls under the Patriot Act,<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 16px;"> then the data can be accessed if needed.</span></p><p>Refer to the <a href="https://www.insideprivacy.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/51/2013/06/PatriotActQA.pdf" target="_blank">Patriot Act</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Can public cloud really replace disaster recovery plan? are you able to meet an application/service SLA just by hosting in the cloud?</p><p>Consider this, you might have thought Cloud Providers has Availability Zones, however what if it's a code failure on a cloud service used by a critical application which has an SLA to be up in a short time? Does a public cloud really able to replace an entire Data Center even for disaster requirement to meet SLA due to regulation or company policy? Can the service SLA meet your requirements? </p><p>With recent news such as the below due to network changes or power outages. It might just cause your critical service to be out of SLA. The statement of "cloud never goes down" is relatively subjective nowadays. So what if it does goes down? The cloud provider will just rebate you credits to utilize more of their services as compensation. Your application resiliency has nothing to do with them. It is your responsibility.</p><p>Ref 1: https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/25/network_issues_causing_outage_in/</p><p>Ref 2: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/data-center-power-surge-and-cooling-failure-brings-down-microsoft-azure-services/</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Are you using a proprietary service which is only available to one cloud provider?</p><p>Consider this, one day if you need to change a provider or move back on premies due to certain reason due to cost, policy, local requirement, etc. you might need to rebuild your app once more.</p><p>Perhaps making your application portable and not lock down to a specific service is what needs to be taken into consideration. Example, instead of using an proprietary database type, you might want to make sure that database service is available in other providers or even able to host on premies if a need arise.</p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-19978566558092121212023-02-23T00:22:00.000+08:002023-02-23T00:22:03.679+08:00Vulnerability Alert: VMware Carbon Black App Control<p>VMware has release a security advisory on a vulnerability on VMware Carbon Black App Control. This comes with a CVSSv3 Range of 9.1.</p><p>This allow an attacker to gain priviledge access of the operation system that Carbon Black App Control is running on.</p><p>The fixed has been prompt and it readily available for download. </p><p>It is recommended to patch this up if you are using this product.</p><p>Refer to <a href="https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0004.html" target="_blank">https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0004.html</a> for more information.</p>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-78849943525115662512023-02-21T21:30:00.005+08:002023-02-27T10:41:36.945+08:00vSphere+ Licensing Overview<p>With the introduction to vSphere + licensing, there are some beneficial in term of licensing which many might not notice.</p><p><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2022/06/vmware-vsphereplus-introducing-the-multi-cloud-workload-platform.html" target="_blank">Announcement</a></p><p><a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere+/services/vsphereplus-getting-started/GUID-7FE4A507-B528-4359-A4B0-943C5E4E084D.html" target="_blank">Reference</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9aw_kvwF_A" target="_blank">Video</a></p><p><a href="https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/vsphere/vmware-vsphere-pricing-whitepaper.pdf" target="_blank">White Paper</a></p><p>In a nutshell, software companies are all moving to SaaS and subscription licensing basis. So VMware have also introduce vSphere+ to cater to the needs of customer and adapting to changes in the industry.</p><p>As an architect, you will have to take consideration on what is needed often with the Bill of Material so a need to understand the licensing differences from perpetual license is often required.</p><p>In the traditional perpetual licensing, it was licensed in per CPU/socket basis and each CPU only alllows up to 32 cores. ie. if you have a CPU that has e.g. 48 cores, that CPU will require two CPU licensing.</p><p>In top of that, you will also have to license an instance of the number of vCenter Server needed in your environment with active Subscription and Support (SnS) to be eligible for upgrade and support call.</p><p>With the new vSphere+ licensing, the licensing is based on cores and with a minimum of 16 cores per socket. Rather than a maximum, there are not any processor that used in a server that has 16 cores so this limit requirement mostly won't applies in any situation.</p><p>Using the above example of 48 cores per CPU, customer only needs to purchase 48 cores for licensing perspective. In such, the cost would be lower as the customer only need to purchase just enough, instead of over purchase all the cores up front (in perpetual will be two license each up to 32 cores, in total 64 cores has been purchased for 48 cores CPU).</p><p>The best part isn't just that. vCenter Server are included in the vSphere+ licensing as long the environment is running and licensed with valid vSphere+ licensing. In top of licensing saving, you also get vCenter Server instance saving at the same time.</p><p>With subscription licensing, there is no need to add on SnS as the licensing already include as part it.</p><p>Example of a server with two CPUs each with 48 cores. Using list price which you can look around. You might realize that a 3 years perpetual might be cheaper, however, this didn't include the vCenter Server instances that is required. vSphere+ will eventually end up cheaper.</p><p>vSphere+ 1 year = $13,440<br />vSphere Enterprise Plus 1 year = $19,752</p><p>vSphere+ 3 years = $28,800<br />vSphere Enterprise Plus 3 years = $26,244.28</p><div><br /></div>Example of a server with two CPUs each with 26 cores. Similiarly to the above with each CPU more than 32 cores, 3 years looks slightly more expensive before vCenter Server instance included.<p>vSphere+ 1 year = $7,780<br />vSphere Enterprise Plus 1 year = $9,876</p><p>vSphere+ 3 years = $15,600<br />vSphere Enterprise Plus 3 years = $13,116.64</p><div><p>In summary, we can see that subscription licensing will help provide certain level of saving. Do note that these above examples are using list price that you can find from the internet and have not included any discount level which you are entitled.</p><p><br />Price reference:<br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.softwareone.com/en-ch/blog/articles/2022/07/05/vsphere-subscription?KSD4oz2hr4=TJMM2mhCRg&gs=CloudServices" target="_blank">https://www.softwareone.com/en-ch/blog/articles/2022/07/05/vsphere-subscription?KSD4oz2hr4=TJMM2mhCRg&gs=CloudServices</a></li><li><a href="https://store-us.vmware.com/vmware-vsphere-enterprise-plus-5653277800.html" target="_blank">https://store-us.vmware.com/vmware-vsphere-enterprise-plus-5653277800.html</a></li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Update 27th Feb 2023</u></b></p><p><a href="https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/docs/vmw-datasheet-vsphere-product-line-comparison.pdf" target="_blank">vSphere Product Line Comparison</a></p></div>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-29131120374593227202023-01-26T21:30:00.001+08:002023-01-26T21:30:00.183+08:00vRealize Log Insight Security Vulnerability <p>A happy new year to everyone. Hopefully this year will be a great year for everyone.</p><p>To start off my first blog article of the year, was to bring attention to vRealize Log Insight which need to be updated to fixed the latest vulnerability. Particularly two of which has a CVSSv3 rating of 9.8.</p><p>Though there is no report of any security related incident due to this vulnerability, it is still highly recommend to patch up the tool before any happens.</p><br />It is also great to see VMware been active on identifying and releasing the patch before any report of such incident actually happens.<br /><br />Do check out <a href="https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0001.html" target="_blank">VMSA-2023-0001</a> to read more about it the two which has the 9.8 rating score.Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825357187749083783.post-54390975892846998352022-11-10T21:30:00.001+08:002022-11-10T21:30:00.175+08:00vCenter Converter Standalone is now available!If you are not following the end of availability of the old vCenter Converter Standalone tool which only suppose up to vSphere 6.7.<div><br /></div><div>The new <a href="https://www.vmware.com/asean/products/converter.html" target="_blank">vCenter Converter Standalone</a> is now available! At the point of writing this, the version release is 6.3.0. You can download it <a href="https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/downloads/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vcenter_converter/6_3_0" target="_blank">here</a>. This release will support to destination vSphere 6.7U3 and 7.0.x.</div><div><br /></div><div>Many were facing issue to have a free tool to convert into vSphere 7 and now you have it.</div><div><br /></div>Wee Kiong Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550909301435418747noreply@blogger.com0