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VMware Security Announcement VMSA-2021-0010 CVSSv3 score range 6.5 to 9.8

Tue, 25 May 2021 20:53:11 +0000

Hi everyone,

An urgent post for anyone on vCenter 6.5, 6.7 or 7.0!

NOTE: The information below is a snapshot of the VMSA-2021-0010 page, and this page may not be updated anymore after the post. For the latest information, I redirect you to the VMSA-2021-0010 link.

UPDATE: VMware just made a blog post with advise, questions, workarounds and more. You can find it here.

VMSA-2021-0010 has just been released, addressing:

Setting up a free KMS server for vCenter with PyKMIP (with database)

Fri, 12 Jun 2020 13:38:28 +0000

Hi everyone,

In this post, we will be deploying a PyKMIP server that stores its keys in a database. Unlike the docker container, the keys will be saved so on a reboot your keys are not lost.

So what exactly is this for? Well, in my use-case, I will be using this server to encrypted virtual machine files and drives.

For this tutorial, we will be using self-signed certs and this keys will be stored in a sqlite database. This is not secure at all! However, it will allow you to evaluate and learn the KMS functions within vCenter.

Adding a static route to ESXi

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:31:24 +0000

Hi readers,

This short post will be about how I had to set-up a static route on ESXi to my VPN subnet.

My setup is as follows: I have an ESXi server in DC1, and a ESXi server at home. The Home ESXi server has vCenter and vRealize Operations Manager on it. My goal was to have vRealize Operations Manager give rightsize advise on VMs on both my home server and the server in DC1. For this to work, I need to add my DC1 server to my vCenter server. I created a datacenter for it in vCenter, and I created a vmkernel adapter on the LAN network of the DC1 server. There is an IPSec VPN that links the remote network and my local network.