Many people are under the incorrect belief that it is hardware-level firmware updates from companies like HPE and Dell that will protect our Virtual Machines from Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities. This is NOT TRUE. As far as your VMs are concerned, the VM BIOS and Hypervisor are the hardware! When VMware gets around to re-releasing vSphere
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As we are all aware, recent updates to Shockwave Flash caused the vSphere Web Client to crash on most browser platforms. The interim solution was to install an outdated version of Shockwave Flash, just to access the Web Client. More recently, Adobe Shockwave Flash version 27.0.0.183 was pushed out in updates to Google Chrome (and
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Photon OS installs by default with DHCP enabled. This is perfect for building and distributing Photon OS OS as a Virtual Appliance, but for most practical applications, you’ll want to set a static IP address. Changing the IP of Photon OS involves a newer, albeit standardized procedure of editing files located in: /etc/systemd/network that will
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For some users, whether you should or shouldn’t use SSH is a matter for debate. Rather than be hypocritical, I simply acknowledge that most admins will access Linux systems using SSH, and prefer to suggest that using strong passwords or passphrases and secure Management Networks is a more realistic approach to Linux administration.
VMware photon OS is described as “yum compatible.” Yum has been the package manager for all Fedora derivative distros like RHEL and CentOS. Photon OS actually uses Tiny DNF (TDNF), which appears to be a fork of the Fedora DNF package management system.
When I first started using VMware products, ESX Server ran on Red Hat, Virtual Center (vCenter) ran on Windows, there was no such thing as a “Virtual Appliance,” or at least the term had not yet been coined and Photon OS was a long way in the future!
Over the weekend Google pushed out an update to Flash (27.0.0.170) with an update to Chrome (61.0.3163.100) and now vSphere Web Client is broken once again!
VMware Workstation Pro 14 is a 64-bit Type 2 Hypervisor that is available for Linux and Windows. As a Type 2 Hypervisor, Workstation Pro runs as an application on top of a full Operating System like Windows 10 or Ubuntu Desktop and claims compute and hardware resources from the parent OS, then allocates those resources
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Being successful with VMware vSphere is largely about understanding “Who’s on first, What’s on second and Idunno’s on third,” at any given point in time. This is especially true with the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), as it presents a several new console choices to the administrator.
From time to time, you will find it necessary to transfer files to or from your VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) or ESXi Servers. If you are working from a Windows desktop or server, there’s no more convenient utility than WinSCP for copying files securely between Windows and Linux Systems. There are a few issues,
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