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Another high rating of CVSSv3 of 9.8 was released here on VMware Cloud Director appliance. For those not aware, the virtual appliance is a prepackaged virtual machine with added configuration bedded in for easy deployment. 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. To resolve this, the updated kb has been released and it provide a script for the workaround to fix this. 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.

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. 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  here . 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. 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. 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 ...

 Recently, I was in a Facebook group, VMware vExpert and one member actually posted this. He was running a VDI environment and notice his VMware Tools got uninstalled and was not able to install successful after several attempt. This is a VMware issue, but let's looks more into it. With further check, the user did a update to their ESXi host, and vSphere auto update the VMware Tools to every virtual machine that got rebooted. During the installation, whether auto or manual triggered by user, it fails. With an investigation by the member, it seems his anti-virus has blocked the installation. But wait right here, how did vSphere did auto update of VMware Tools? Isn't that trigger normally by using the vCenter Update Manager (prior to vSphere 7.0) or vCenter Lifecycle Manager (vSphere 7.0 onwards)? A good thing the member found this article by one of our VCDX. It seems that there is an auto update of VMware Tools to patch ESXi host if you check that on as show by vMiss.net. vSph...