ESXi Has No MFA: A Practical Hardening Checklist3 July 2026·1483 words·7 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware vSphere ESXi vCenter identity security-model hardening
vSphere: It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Root18 September 2025·1302 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
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
ESX to ESXi and Back Again18 June 2025·229 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware VCF VVF ESX ESXi
Beware Of The Rogue VMs!11 November 2024·548 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vSphere ESXi vCenter VMware 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
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
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
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
Patching Dell Optiplex 7090 UFF29 March 2022·591 words·3 minsChristian MohnHome Lab vSphere vSAN VMware ESXi Home Lab Dell OptiPlex 7090
The Home Lab: 2022 Edition7 March 2022·929 words·5 minsChristian MohnHome Lab vSphere vSAN VMware ESXi Home Lab
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 minsVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESXi VMware vSphere esod
ESXi 7.0 SD Card/USB Drive Issue Temporary Workaround1 June 2021·717 words·4 minsVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESXi VMware vSphere esod
ESXi 7.0 U2a Potentially Killing USB and SD drives!18 May 2021·1571 words·8 minsVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESXi VMware vSphere esod
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
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
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
VMware Update Manager: Unsupported Configuration28 August 2015·345 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESXi nfs Upgrade vCenter Veeam Backup & Replication VMware
Update ESXi Embedded Host Client Fling26 August 2015·140 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Embedded Host Client ESXi vSphere
ESXi5.5 to 6.0 Upgrade From Local HTTP Daemon26 August 2015·537 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESXi vCenter VMware vSphere
Need the vSphere Client? VMware Has You Covered.17 September 2014·60 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Download ESXi Knowledge Base VMware vSphere
Root Cause of Invalid memory setting: memory reservation (sched.mem.min) should be equal to memsize (memsize)15 July 2014·378 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESXi Latency Sensitivity Troubleshooting vCenter VM VMware vSphere
Configuring VSAN on a Dell PowerEdge VRTX19 February 2014·580 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Dell ESXi Hardware Storage VMware VRTX vSAN
Automatically Name Datastores in vSphere?18 February 2014·315 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Datastore ESXi Ideas Policy Based Computing Storage vCenter Virtualization VMware vSAN vSphere
Can you combine vSphere Host Cache and vFlash on a single SSD?30 September 2013·215 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESXi featured Host Cache vCenter vFlash Read Cache Virtualization VMware vSphere
VMware vCenter Server Appliance Error: VPXD must be stopped to perform this operation29 September 2013·252 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESXi vCenter VCSA VMware vSphere
Quick and Dirty ESXi 5.5 Upgrade23 September 2013·201 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Command Line esxcli ESXi Host Upgrade VIB VMware vSphere
Monitoring the ESXi Upgrade Process26 June 2013·244 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESXi Log Maintenance Ops Real World Upgrade Virtualization VMware vSphere
Quick and Dirty ESXi 5.1U1 Upgrade26 April 2013·437 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Command Line ESXi Host Upgrade VMware
Adding a secondary NIC to the vCenter 5.1 Appliance (VCSA)25 April 2013·454 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESXi Hack networking vCenter VCSA Virtualization vSphere
Installing Dell Equallogic Multipathing Extension Module (MEM) in vSphere 5.122 April 2013·416 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Dell Equallogic ESXi Howto Multipath Storage vSphere
VMware vSphere Health Check - What´s in it for You?4 December 2012·549 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Best Practice ESXi Health Check realworld vCenter VMware vSphere
Exporting vCenter Events with PowerCLI30 November 2012·157 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Automation ESXi Oneliner PowerCLI Powershell realworld vCenter Virtualization vSphere vSphere Client
Why Did the HP BL460c G8 Lose It's Datastore?29 October 2012·866 words·5 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure BL460c c3000 c7000 ESXi G8 HP P220i Patch ProLiant Update VMware
VMware ESXi 4 vs ESXi 5 Log File Locations17 September 2012·243 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESXi Log Files Ops VMware vSphere
vSphere 5: Creating a Hardware Version 4 VM2 July 2012·393 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure EasyVNX ESX ESXi Hardware Version VMware vSphere workaround
Creating and Using a Virtual Floppy in vSphere7 January 2012·331 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Bitlocker Encryption ESXi Floppy Howto TPM vSphere
Auto Installation and Configuring of vSphere ESXi 521 December 2011·256 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Automation ESXi fun Ops PowerCLI Powershell realworld Virtualization VMware
Why Can't I Syslog my VMware ESXi Installation?4 November 2011·332 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESXi Feature Request Installation Syslog
vSphere 5: ESXi Installation Video25 August 2011·34 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESXi fun video Virtualization VMware vSphere
vSphere 5 and new licensing - Good or bad?12 July 2011·477 words·3 minsVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESXi Licensing Rant VMware vRam vSphere
Setting Up Automated ESXi Deployments7 July 2011·1313 words·7 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Automation ESXi fun Howto Ops PowerCLI Powershell realworld Virtualization VMware
vCenter Update Manager - A Feature Request22 April 2011·388 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESX ESXi Ops vCenter vCenter Update Manager VMware
Using rsync to Distribute Patches to a Remote vMA8 March 2011·847 words·4 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESX ESXi Howto Ops rsync vCLI Virtual Appliance vMA VMware vSphere
Using vMA as a local vSphere Patch Repository7 March 2011·726 words·4 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESX ESXi Howto Ops vCLI Virtual Appliance vMA VMware vSphere
Installing vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)28 February 2011·700 words·4 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESX ESXi Howto Ops vCLI Virtual Appliance vMA VMware vSphere
