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Trouble to activate vLCM on a NSX and Tanzu enabled Cluster?

Trouble to activate vLCM on a NSX and Tanzu enabled Cluster?

We installed a brand new vSphere 8 Lab with VSAN, NSX and enabled Tanzu. Now we want to activate the vLCM (vSphere Lifecycle Manager) Image and ran into the following Issue: Payload of unsupported Workload Management solution has been identified on the following host(s): vmw8-esx01.xyz.lab, vmw8-esx02.xyz.lab, vmw8-esx03.xyz.lab, vmw8-esx04.xyz.lab Solution needs to be disabled.

Spectre NG (CVE-2018-3639 and CVE-2018-3640)

Spectre NG (CVE-2018-3639 and CVE-2018-3640)

A short wrapup to the latest Intel security leaks for VMware Administrators: CVE-2018-3639 aka Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), Variant 4 CVE-2018-3640 aka Rogue System Register Read (RSRE), Variant 3a. Once again we have to patch the whole stack: Update vCenter CPU Microcode (BIOS Update) VMware ESXi Hypervisor Patch Check if the new CPU flags are mapped to a new VM All VMs – Shutdown and start (reboot is not enough!) Update Guest OS Get some hints about EVC-Mode and how…

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Configure Huawei Ultrapath with PowerCli

Configure Huawei Ultrapath with PowerCli

The last days we got two new All-Flash Storage Systems. These systems can present LUNs in a Metro-Cluster fashion. So I got the challenge to configure the Storage Plugin UltraPath from Huawei. In the manual from Huawei is explained how to configure the settings with esxcli on the ESXi-Host. That’s fine, but not enough 😉 We want to configure this with PowerCli to easily manage more than one Host.   #get esxcli $esxcli2 = Get-ESXCLI -VMHost (Get-VMhost MyHost-001) -V2 #show…

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