ESXi Has No MFA: A Practical Hardening Checklist3 July 2026·1546 words·8 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware vsphere esxi vcenter identity security-model hardening
Closing the Loop: ESX, vCenter, and Identity as One Attack Chain18 May 2026·404 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware VCF virtual-infrastructure identity attack-surface security-model
Identity Is the Real Attack Surface18 May 2026·1173 words·6 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware VCF virtual-infrastructure attack-surface identity security-model
vCenter Is the Crown Jewel14 May 2026·1157 words·6 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware VCF virtual-infrastructure attack-surface identity security-model
ESX Security Advice that Actually Matters in 202612 May 2026·1637 words·8 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware VCF virtual-infrastructure attack-surface identity security-model
VCF Security Reality Check: What This Series Covers12 May 2026·411 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware VCF virtual-infrastructure attack-surface identity security-model
Intel Arc SR-IOV Hardware Transcoding with Plex on Proxmox VE7 May 2026·2179 words·11 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure proxmox plex intel sr-iov nuc
vSphere: It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Root18 September 2025·1301 words·7 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware vsphere esxi Security
vSphere LCM Moving From Baselines to Images12 September 2025·138 words·1 minStine Elise LarsenVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware vsphere esxi
Storage in Hypervisor and Kubernetes Environments: What Are the Options?12 September 2025·779 words·4 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Kubernetes Containers Virtualization Hypervisor KubeVirt storage
Containers in Your Hypervisor vs. VMs in Kubernetes: What’s the Difference?11 September 2025·889 words·5 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Kubernetes Containers Virtualization Hypervisor KubeVirt
How to set up a VMware vSphere Native Key Provider (NKP)15 August 2025·130 words·1 minStine Elise LarsenVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware vsphere esxi
VMware Critical Security Advisory: VMSA-2025-001315 July 2025·216 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware vsphere esxi VMware Workstation Fusion VMware Tools
vSphere 8: Error Installing HA components failed9 July 2025·257 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware vsphere esxi
VCF / VVF 9 Deprecation Notices18 June 2025·491 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware VCF VVF
ESX to ESXi and Back Again18 June 2025·233 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware VCF VVF ESX esxi
VCF 9.0 Is Here — What Does That Mean?17 June 2025·966 words·5 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware VCF VVF
Beware Of The Rogue VMs!11 November 2024·548 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere esxi vcenter VMware Security
Driver Issues When Updating VMware ESXi With vLCM Images5 August 2024·302 words·2 minsStine Elise LarsenVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware vcenter vsphere vLCM
vCenter Upgrade 8.0 U3a vSphere Lifecycle Manager Port Issues30 July 2024·126 words·1 minStine Elise LarsenVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware vcenter vsphere vLCM
VMware vSphere CVE-2024-37085 - A Nothing Burger29 July 2024·516 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware Broadcom Security
Where Did My VMware Security Advisories Go? They Went Here!13 May 2024·182 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware Broadcom Security
VMware by Broadcom Promises Free Security Updates for vSphere16 April 2024·252 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware vsphere esxi vcenter
Removing vCLS Machines in vSphere 7.0.330 December 2023·110 words·1 minStine Elise LarsenVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure esxi VMware vsphere vcenter
vSphere Distributed Switch Configuration on Some Hosts Differed From That of the vCenter Server1 November 2023·108 words·1 minStine Elise LarsenVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure esxi VMware vsphere vcenter
Updating Shodan Monitor Assets via REST API and Curl1 November 2023·445 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Shodan Monitoring bash
Tips for VMware Explore Barcelona 202318 October 2023·360 words·2 minsStine Elise LarsenVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vmware-explore vmworld conference
Using vSphere Datasets in Salt25 September 2023·670 words·4 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere vcenter vSphere Datasets Salt
VMware vSphere 8 U2 Announced at Explore 202322 August 2023·660 words·4 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere VMware esxi
VMware vSAN 8 U2 to the Max22 August 2023·635 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere VSAN VMware esxi
VMware vSAN 8 U2 Announced at Explore 202322 August 2023·813 words·4 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere VSAN VMware esxi
Upgrading to vCenter 8 Update 1: Invalid Type, expected String, instead got NoneType19 April 2023·414 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere vcenter VMware
Are Your (old) ESXi Hosts Publicly Available? — They won't be for long.6 February 2023·261 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vcenter VMware esxi
My Experience: VCP-DCV for vSphere 7.x 2V0-21.20 Exam4 January 2023·719 words·4 minsStine Elise LarsenVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware Certification VCP
VMware vCenter CVE-2022-3169720 December 2022·498 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere vcenter VMware
vSAN 8 ESA VMware Compatibility Guidance7 December 2022·129 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere VSAN VMware esxi
VMware vSAN 8 ESA in my Homelab24 November 2022·656 words·4 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere VSAN VMware esxi
VMware vSphere 8 — The Enterprise Workload Platform Announced!30 August 2022·1464 words·7 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere VSAN VMware esxi
VMware vSAN 8 Announced — New Architecture Model!30 August 2022·909 words·5 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere VSAN VMware esxi
Expired VMware vCenter certificates8 August 2022·1617 words·8 minsStine Elise LarsenVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure esxi VMware vsphere vcenter PKI TLS Certificates
VMware issues Updated ESXi SD card USB Boot Device Guidance27 April 2022·231 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure esxi VMware vsphere
Installing Tanzu Community Edition on vSphere — Some Quick Notes16 March 2022·352 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure TCE Tanzu K8s Home Lab vsphere
VMware vSphere 7 Update 3c Finally Released29 January 2022·322 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere VSAN VMware esxi
Hot Add NVMe Device Caused PSOD on ESXi8 September 2021·308 words·2 minsStine Elise LarsenVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure esxi VMware vsphere NVMe
ESXi SD-Card/USB boot devices unsupported in 7.0u32 September 2021·603 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure esxi VMware vsphere
Upgrading to ESXi 7.0 build 18426014 U2c. ESXi stuck in Not responding from vCenter24 August 2021·707 words·4 minsEspen ØdegaardVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure esxi VMware vsphere esod Guest Post
Storage Field Day #22 — Here We Go30 July 2021·185 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Tech Field Day Storage Field Day
ESXi 7.0 SD Card/USB Drive Issue Temporary Workaround1 June 2021·717 words·4 minsEspen ØdegaardVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure esxi VMware vsphere esod Guest Post
Searching vCenter Tasks and Events via PowerShell and GridView19 May 2021·584 words·3 minsEspen ØdegaardVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure PowerCLI vcenter esod Guest Post
ESXi: Error Occurred While Saving Snapshot Msg.changetracker18 May 2021·491 words·3 minsEspen ØdegaardVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vcenter VMware Snapshot VSAN esod Guest Post
ESXi 7.0 U2a Potentially Killing USB and SD drives!18 May 2021·1571 words·8 minsEspen ØdegaardVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure esxi VMware vsphere esod Guest Post
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 Videos9 March 2021·90 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere VSAN VMware esxi
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 Announced9 March 2021·1209 words·6 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere VSAN VMware esxi
VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 2 Videos9 March 2021·218 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere VSAN VMware esxi
VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 2 Announced9 March 2021·991 words·5 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere VSAN VMware esxi
Is Your VMware vCenter Publicly Available?27 February 2021·515 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vcenter VMware
Using VMware Validated Design Stencils in Draw.io30 November 2020·224 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware VVD VMware Validated Design Diagram
Photon OS 3.0 Template Gotcha23 September 2020·274 words·2 minsVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere Photon Template
VMware vSphere 7 Update 1 With Tanzu News15 September 2020·600 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere VMware Kubernetes Tanzu
VMware Announcements September 2020 — The Resource List15 September 2020·339 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere VMware Kubernetes Tanzu VSAN VCF
VMware Updates Minimum Requirements for vSphere 7 With Kubernetes in VCF25 May 2020·209 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere Cloud Foundation VMware Kubernetes Tanzu
VMware vSphere 7 With Kubernetes and Tanzu Resources12 May 2020·370 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere Cloud Foundation VMware Kubernetes Tanzu
VMware vSAN 7 Announced10 March 2020·664 words·4 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere VSAN VMware
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 Announced10 March 2020·290 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere Cloud Foundation VMware
The Problem with VMware vSphere 7 With Kubernetes10 March 2020·850 words·4 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere Cloud Foundation VMware Kubernetes
VMware Center for Advanced Learning Advanced Architecture Course (CALAAC)21 July 2019·802 words·4 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware Training CALAAC CAL Paris Architecture
VeeamON Virtual 2018 — Reserve Your Seat Now9 November 2018·174 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Event Veeam
vSphere VCSA 6.5 Update 2 to 6.7 Update 1 Upgrade Issues17 October 2018·242 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VCSA VMware vcenter Blogtober2018
VMware vSphere 6.7u1 — What's New?26 August 2018·236 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vsphere VMware VCSA VMworld 2018
VMware vSAN 6.7u1 — What's New?26 August 2018·420 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VSAN VMware VMworld 2018
VMware Cloud on AWS — New Amazon EC2 elastic, bare-metal instance for vSAN26 August 2018·143 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware VMworld 2018 VMware Cloud on AWS
Alerting on "Bootbank cannot be found at path ‘/bootbank’" in vRealize Operations29 January 2018·381 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Alerting vRealize Log Insight vCenter Operations Manager vsphere
The Curious Case of the Intel Microcode Part #2 - It Gets Better — Then Worse14 January 2018·2083 words·10 minsBjørn A. JørgensenVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Analysis intel Meltdown Security Spectre VMware Guest Post
The Curious Case of the Intel Microcode9 January 2018·1034 words·5 minsBjørn A. JørgensenVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Analysis intel Meltdown Security Spectre Guest Post
Webinar: Veeam integration with VMware vSAN, vSphere tags and SPBM policies13 November 2017·54 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Self Promotion Veeam Webinar
VeeamOn Tour Virtual 2017 - Reserve your spot!17 October 2017·112 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Event Veeam
VMware vSAN 6.6 - What's New for Day 2 Operations?11 April 2017·468 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Day 2 management News Operations VMware VSAN
Cross vCenter VM Mobility Fling - macOS?28 March 2017·308 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Awesome Fling macos VMware xvMotion
VMware vSphere 6.5 PSOD: GP Exception 1325 February 2017·128 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure esxi KB vsphere
ESXi Snapshot Problems: msg.snapshot.error-QUIESCINGERROR1 February 2017·126 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure esxi NTP Snapshot vsphere
Got VMware vRealize Log Insight?23 November 2016·247 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Free vRealize Log Insight Software VMware
VMware vSAN: 2016 Edition23 November 2016·459 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure storage VMware VSAN
Cohesity: My Initial Impression22 November 2016·452 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Backup Cohesity storage
VCSA - The default choice. Always.10 November 2016·404 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vcenter VCSA vDM30in30 VMware vsphere
My vCenter Web Client Customization7 November 2016·84 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vcenter web-client customization
Adding Slack Notifications to phpipam3 November 2016·213 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure phpipam Slack Homelab Automation
Running telnetlogger on my home IP2 November 2016·435 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Homelab Security telnet
Me too: VMware Cloud™ on AWS14 October 2016·670 words·4 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure AWS Cloud Speculation VMware
Patch those Dell Servers easily!10 October 2016·164 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Dell Patching Server Update
Goodbye PernixData FVP and Architect29 September 2016·150 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Nutanix PernixData
Veeam vCenter Migration Utility8 August 2016·127 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Backup Veeam Backup & Replication MoRef vcenter Veeam
vSphere Platform Services Controller (PSC) topology and Omnigraffle22 May 2016·265 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Automation Omnigraffle PSC Script Topology vsphere
I Made Something Happen31 March 2016·239 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Change EVRY Proact Role
Running a vSAN PoC - Customer reactions24 February 2016·320 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Proof-of-Concept storage VSAN
vCenter Server Appliance Backups18 February 2016·263 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Backup vcenter VCSA VMware
VMware VSAN - More than meets the eye.13 November 2015·439 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Future Microvisor VSAN vsphere
vCenter / SSO unable to retrieve AD-information | Error while extracting local SSO users10 November 2015·156 words·1 minVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure esxi SSO vcenter vsphere
Relax and virtualize it!15 October 2015·870 words·5 minsKristian WæraasVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure HowTo Guest Post
What if it's Just Some Crazy Guy in a Clown Suit?8 September 2015·237 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Changes Cloud EVRY Work
VMware Update Manager: Unsupported Configuration28 August 2015·345 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure esxi NFS Upgrade vcenter Veeam Backup & Replication VMware
