This is a blog post on some old Content Library research which I had looked into several months back for a customer inquiry and realized I never got a chance to write about. When you create a Subscriber Content Library (CL) which synchronize content from a Published CL, the Subscriber CL is basically in read-only […]
How to troubleshoot NSX-T API errors when using PowerCLI?
In the last few days, I have been ramping back up on NSX-T usage, especially as I take a closer look at VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) which hopefully I will be able to share more with an upcoming blog series (at least, thats the plan when I find some spare time). While working on […]
Automating Intel Sighting remediation using PowerCLI (SSH not required)
In case you may not be aware, Intel recently notified VMware that certain Intel Broadwell and Haswell CPUs are affected by Intel Sighting after applying the latest microcode update to remediate against the Spectre vulnerability. VMware has published the following KB 52345 which provides more details on the affected Intel CPUs along with the recommended workaround in case you […]
Verify Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigation (Spectre) patches using PowerCLI
VMware recently published a new knowledge base (KB) article 52085 that outlines instructions for enabling the Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigation (CVE-2017-5715), also known as the Spectre vulnerability. This KB also provides steps to verify the updated microcode (included in the ESXi patch) has been applied along with Virtual Machine verification (those applicable) to ensure that they are seeing […]
Identifying ESXi boot method & boot device
There was an interesting discussion on our internal Socialcast platform last week on figuring out how an ESXi host is booted up whether it is from local device like a disk or USB device, Auto Deploy or even boot from SAN along with its respective boot device? Although I had answered the question, I was […]