Browsing Posts published in Febbraio, 2018

Reading Time: < 1 minute VMware PowerCLI 10.0.0 is the new release of PowerCLI and the first to become multi-platform: it adds support for Mac OS and Linux! Thanks to Microsoft PowerShell Core 6.0, the open-sourced version of PowerShell that’s available on a number of operating systems, from Windows to Linux to Mac OS.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Dopo un lungo periodo di beta, Veeam annuncia la versione 1.0 di Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO), una soluzione per creare e gestire disaster recovery in modo automatizzato. Annunciato durante lo scorso VeeamON, il prodotto è pensato per ambienti medio-grandi che hanno non solo necessità di replicare le proprie macchine virtuali all’interno di un altro datacenter, ma che devono anche produrre documentazione utile ad attestare le attività svolte e le procedure da seguire in caso di failover, automaticamente aggiornata e ripubblicata in base ai cambiamenti dell’ambiente.

Reading Time: 3 minutes RVTools is a Windows .NET application, easy to be install which uses the VI API to collect and display informations about your vSphere virtual environments. RVTools supports ESX Server 3.5, VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX Server 3i, ESX Server 4i, VirtualCenter 4.x, ESX 4.x, VirtualCenter 5.0, VirtualCenter Appliance, ESX 5.0, VirtualCenter 5.5, ESX 5.5, VirtualCenter 6.0, ESX 6.0, VirtualCenter 6.5 and ESX 6.5, so all you can have (also legacy versions) in a datacenter. And it’s totally free. After 10 months from the last version, now it’s available the new Version 3.10 (February, 2018).

Reading Time: 2 minutes If you are planning to backup a Microsoft Hyper-V cluster with Veeam Backup & Replication you may have some issues during the configuration of your environment. Compared to VMware vSphere backup where are defined some Veeam proxy on Windows machines (virtual or physical), in a Hyper-V backup, each Hyper-V node act also as a Veeam proxy!

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m very proud and honored to be invited again to the next Tech Field Day in Austin (TX). It will be the 16th edition of Tech Field Day (#TFD16), just one year after the 13th, still in Austin (and where I was also invited). I’m very excited for this event, that remains a must for all techie-people: be a delegate is a unique opportunity to meet interesting people, learn more on products and solutions and usually learn directly by the higher (technical) level of each company… All without biased discussion and always with a high technical […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes VMware la rilasciato (ancora il 15 febbraio) una nuova versione della vCSA version: vCenter Server 6.5 U1f, che porta il build number a 7801515. In questa nuova versione della vCSA viene aggiornato il Photon contro due delle vulnerabilità relative alle problematiche Meltdown e Spectre. La nuova patch vCenter Server 6.5 U1f risolve le problematiche bounds-check bypass(Spectre-1, CVE-2017-5753) e rogue data cache load (Meltdown, CVE-2017-5754). Per la vulnerabilità branch target injection (Spectre-2, CVE-2017-5715) non c’è invece ancora nessuna patch. VMware ha aggiornato il documento VMSA-2018-0007, ma non ancora il VMSA-2018-0004.2 che riporta come ultima versione del vCenter il 6.5 is still 6.5U1e!

Reading Time: 2 minutes We are still far from a solution for the Meltdown and Spectre, considering the delay of the microcode releases and the complexity of the possible Spectre fixes… And now, some security researchers from NVIDIA and Princeton have discovered new variants of the Meltdown and Spectre flaws that may be more difficult to be fixed (but also to be exploited) than the originals.

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