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During the VMware Explore 2024 in Las Vegas, VMware has introduced the new VMware Cloud Foundation 9 and described some of its features.

One of them was Confidential Computing with TDX: a way to provide advanced security by isolating and encrypting workloads, ensuring data integrity and privacy at the hypervisor level.

But what is TDX?

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Nutanix Community Edition is the free and lighter-weight version of the Nutanix Acropolis (previously know as Nutanix Operating System), which powers the Nutanix Virtual Platform. The Community Edition (CE) is designed for people interested in test driving its main features on their own hardware and infrastructure, but also learn more on Nutanix.

Why Nutanix CE is important? Because comprared to other products, it’s not so easy get the official software and test on a lab, if you aren’t already a customer or a partner. Nutanix CE is one of the way to test the software!

First release was in late 2015 with several limitations (like single node only) and now we are at the new Nutanix CE 2.1 with a lot of improvements!

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Sometimes you may want to replace an existing Veeam vSphere proxy with a new one, for example because you choose a different Linux distribution (maybe you are looking at some CentOS Linux alternatives).

One option is add a new proxy, but you may have already some setting related to the old proxy and you don’t want to reconfigure everything.

The other option is replace the proxy with a new with the SAME IP and SAME name!

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Horizon allows you to configure one or more replica Connection Server instances in a single Connection Server group to provide both more performance and more resiliency.

This configuration use the Microsoft Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS), formerly known as Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM).

AD LDS has some similar aspects of the traditional Active Directory, for example the LDAP schema and the replication across servers.

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IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) is a widely used protocol for network communication and is a core component of the TCP/IP stack. But it has some limits, one is the limit in terms of available addresses, expecially if we are talking about public IP.

IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) was design to resolve all the limitation of IPv4. IPv6 is designated by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as the successor to IPv4 providing the following benefits:

  • Increased address length. The increased address space resolves the problem of address exhaustion and eliminates the need for network address translation. IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses compared with the 32-bit addresses used by IPv4.
  • Ability for improved address autoconfiguration of nodes.
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Microsoft warned customers to patch a critical TCP/IP remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that impacts all Windows systems (client and server) using IPv6 stack. The vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-38063 and it’s a 9.8-out-of-10 on the CVSS severity scale.

Note that, on Windows systems the IPv6 is enabled by default and, in the past, Microsoft itself has not recommend disabling IPV6:

” We do not recommend that you disable IPv6 or its components, or some Windows components may not function.” (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929852)

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Before the decision of  Broadcom to sell the VMware’s EUC Division, the compatibility between (VMware) Horizon and VMware vSphere was simply included in the Product Interoperability Matrix.

But now, of course this VMware site is no more updated because does not include recent versions of both products:

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