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Coming 1st Oct 2024, the Aria Operations Management Packs will be end of general support (EoGS). Here is the KB . The affected management packs are as follow: vRealize Operations Management Pack for VMware Integrated OpenStack vRealize Operations Federation Management Pack VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for CloudHealth VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for Flowgate VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for Aria Hub VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for VMware Smart Assurance Aria Operations Management Pack for Aria Operations for Apps Aria Operations Management Pack for VMware Tanzu Application Service Aria Operations Management Pack for Microsoft Hyper-V Aria Operations Management Pack for NetApp FAS/AFF Aria Operations Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM Aria Operations Management Pack for Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops Aria Operations Management Pack for Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Aria Operations Management Pack for HPE OneView Aria Operations Manag

You might have come across the above concern one that was published here . Since the day VMware vSphere was made available, ESX Admins user group if created in Active Directory will be given admin rights to ESXi when a user is place as a member of ESX Admins group. This was not new. I think some people do not know this existed. Moving forward, it seem hackers are now targeting this function to gain admin rights to the hypervisor. For companies that have concern over this and like to change this group membership name, you can follow this KB . Hope this address the concerns.

With the release of NSX 4.2 together with the General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2, there are some important points to take note of. With NSX 4.2, overlay support for bare metal servers are no longer available. Moving forward, NSX will only support for virtual machine which is running on vSphere. The NSX Network introspection for Security will be deprecated in 4.x and will no longer be support after. NSX Manager APIs and NSX Advanced UIs will deprecated in this version. Just to name a few. But one major change in this release is an entitlement change in regards to NSX Native Load Balancer (NLB) or NSX Load Balancer. Entitlement Change for the NSX Load Balancer In a future major release of NSX, VMware intends to change the entitlement of the built-in NSX load balancer (a.k.a. NSX-T Load Balancer). This load balancer will only support load balancing for Aria Automation, IaaS Control Plane (Supervisor Cluster), and load balancing of VCF infrastructure components. VMware re

This is definitely one of the good news that the vSphere 7.x End of General Support (EoGS) has been extended to 2nd Oct 2025 instead of the original Apr 2025. You can find this in the lifecycle website  https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/productlifecycle . Yes the website is not as good as the previously lifecycle.vmware.com as the dropdown does not work and you have to search ESXi in their search field instead. This definitely is more welcoming as many customers are running short of time to upgrade to vSphere 8 and given that new hardware are often required, there is some gap in the timing. At least now Broadcom has extend the General Support. That means we have 6 months more time to quickly plan for it.

In South East Asia, VMUG Singapore chapter has always been the most active and constantly having a meetup almost every quarter. With the new Broadcom acquisition, this will be the first session by VMUG Singapore with VMware by Broadcom with VMware Cloud Foundation Product Managers on some of the recent innovation and update on VCF solution. If you are based in Singapore, do not miss this out. It is rarely we have product managers and this will be one not to be missed. Register your seats here . Seats are limited so do it fast. Do remain considerate as community, if you are not able to attend due to any reason, do give it up to those who might. I will be there so see you there! Broadcom Singapore Pte Ltd Floor, Suntec Tower 4, S038986 6th, 038986 Singapore, NA, SG VCF Updates, 2024 and beyond   Thursday, 27th June 2024  

Many of our customers have done vulnerability assessment (VA) on vSphere ESXi and often highlighted out the vulerable items such as SHA1 and TLS 1.0, etc.  Some of it were there but not in used and we could not manually remove them such as SHA1, MD5, etc. While some of them were to support lower version such as TLS 1.1 and 1.0.  With vSphere 8, the security enhancement has made uplift to remove unwanted security bundles and as well to support only secured transport connection via TLS 1.2. On top of that, it also added daemons to now run in their own sandboxes instead of in the hypervisor world needing higher permissions which were unneeded and prone to vulnerability attacks. What is new for security is a timeout for SSH shell when enabled on ESXi host. So administrators, no longer are to leave the SSH shell connected for infinite time or even worse forgetting to disconnect and logout of the endpoint where they are connected to the ESXi shell. Lastly, if your hardware used for ESXi 8.0