Category: vSphere 6.7

VMware Security Advisories NOV 2018VMware Security Advisories NOV 2018

VMware announced on last Friday that they found a vulnerability which affect hosts contain VMs running with VMXNET3 due to several reasons, and this vulnarability affected VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion updates address uninitialized stack memory usage. Problem Description VMware ESXi, Fusion and Workstation contain uninitialized stack memory usage in the vmxnet3 virtual network adapter. This issue […]

Install VMware vCenter Appliance Security PatchesInstall VMware vCenter Appliance Security Patches

VMware announced on September 22th, 2017 that they are committed to monthly patches on the vSphere vCenter appliance, and we have to check the latest security updates and patches in VMware Security Advisories. Rally this is an excellent change from a security perspective as historically, VCSA patches when running on SuSE were not released that often, and VMware […]

vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.3)vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.3)

I’m going to deploy a single instance of a vCenter Server. When I’m going through the vCenter HA configuration process my vCenter will become (Active Node, Passive Node, and Witness Node) will be created during that process. I will not deploy these appliances beforehand. First, I’m going now to finalize the last step of PSC HA which is run […]

vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.2)vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.2)

In this Part 4.2 of the vCenter 6.7 Deployment series, I will configure the load balancer that will provide a layer of redundancy between the two external Platform Services Controller (PSC) appliances that were deployed in configured in Part 4.1. F5 BIG-IP DEPLOYMENT I have downloaded my F5 BIG-IP appliance, and request the license during registration, and […]

How to resolve failed to deploy OVA / OVF issue (postNFCData failed)How to resolve failed to deploy OVA / OVF issue (postNFCData failed)

During the deployment of OVA or OVF appliance I have faced an issue which is: Failed to deploy VM: postNFCData failed: Capacity of an uploaded disk is larger than requested Also; the upload process has failed with the listed issue: This issue occurs when an incorrect ovf capacity size is specified in the OVF file that […]

vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.1)vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.1)

  In this Part 4.1 of the multi-part series for vCenter Server 6.7 deployment, I’m going to deploy the two external Platform Services Controller (PSC) appliances. The PSCs will be load balanced by a 3rd party load balancer. In a real-life deployment, the load balancer could be a virtual or physical appliance, but in my scenario, I will use a virtual appliance. […]