May 2020 – vTAM

30 May 2020

Upgrade to vRealize Log Insight 8.1.1 with vRealize LifeCycle Manager

VMware just release vRealize Log Insight 8.1.1, which is a maintenance release that includes security fixes to resolve CVE-2020-3953 (See VMSA-2020-0007 and updates (see KB79258). According to the release notes, this release also helps you leverage the benefits of community supported content packs. Since I use vRSLCM to manage the lifecycle of my vRealize components I hit Check Patches Online...

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21 May 2020

vRSLCM 8.1 Patch 1

Today May 22nd 2020, VMware has released Patch 1 for vRealize LifeCycle Manager (vRSLCM) 8.1. The release notes can be found here: [link]. So what is new? Not that much to the eye, mainly some fixes around vRA that might be usefull for your situation: Scale-out of Patched Environments [link]. See screenshot at the end. Integration Improvements between vRealize Automation...

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20 May 2020

VIA – VMware Imaging Appliance

Many customers need and use tooling for imaging their ESXi-servers. Some of them are very old and some newer but unable to image their servers using the latest ESXi builds. Not many know that the VMware Cloud Foundation Suite is incorporating an Imaging Appliance (VIA). This appliance started it’s life during the EVO:Rail and EVO:Rack era at VMware. With this...

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Monthly Archive: May, 2020

Upgrade to vRealize Log Insight 8.1.1 with vRealize LifeCycle Manager

vRSLCM 8.1 Patch 1

VIA – VMware Imaging Appliance