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A happy new year to everyone. Hopefully this year will be a great year for everyone. 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. 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. It is also great to see VMware been active on identifying and releasing the patch before any report of such incident actually happens. Do check out VMSA-2023-0001 to read more about it the two which has the 9.8 rating score.

This has been something which was announced here but many customers are not aware. Yes vRealize Log Insight (vR LI) is now bundle into every vCenter Edition. Yes you hear it right. Don't be too contented. Nothing is for free unless there is a catch. And yes it does. The catch here is it only cover 25 OSI (OS Instance). It does come with many content packs to work with vR Log Insight. Horizon View NSX OpenStack vCenter Operations Manager (5.x) vCloud Automation Center (6.0) vCloud Director vCNS Virtual SAN vRealize Automation (6.1, 6.2) vRealize Operations Manager (6.x) vSphere If you find vR LI is something useful, you can always add more 25 OSI Packs or you can license them by per CPU model via vRealize Suite/vCloud Suite. If you do the latter, I would recommend you to use the free 25 OSI pack for external device. This has been made unaware by many and like to repeat this is only for vCenter edition from vSphere Standard and above (if there is any edition ...

With both the VMworld 2014 in San Francisco and Barcelona, there are many new bundles and re-branding starting with vRealize. To many there are many questions and confusion on what is really in all these bundles?  Here I am just to clarify the confusion which I, myself got confused with and have cleared it up. Re-branding We know that VMware has vCenter Operations Management Suite (Standard/Advanced/Enterprise).  In this suite, there were 4 components namely: vC Ops Manager, vCenter Infrastructure Navigator, vCenter Chargeback (EOA), vCenter Configuration Manager.  With the new re-branding, this is now call vRealize Operations 6 (Standard/Advanced/Enterprise). The powerful vCloud Automation Center (formerly DynamicOps), is now rename to vRealize Automation . IT Business Management (ITBM) which provide a transparency of cost and services across your whole infrastructure is now known as vRealize Business . VMware Log Insight a log analytics tool is also rename...