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
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 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
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
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
Patching Dell Optiplex 7090 UFF29 March 2022·591 words·3 minsChristian MohnHome Lab vSphere vSAN VMware ESXi Home Lab Dell OptiPlex 7090
Installing Tanzu Community Edition on vSphere — Some Quick Notes16 March 2022·352 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure TCE Tanzu K8s Home Lab vSphere
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
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
macOS: Catalina Chrome Self-signed Certificate Issues3 December 2019·474 words·3 minsChristian MohnmacOS & Desktop macOS TLS Security Certificates VMware vSphere Chrome
VMware vSphere 6.7u1 — What's New?26 August 2018·236 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vSphere VMware VCSA VMworld 2018
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
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
VCSA - The default choice. Always.10 November 2016·404 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vCenter VCSA vDM30in30 VMware vSphere
vSphere Platform Services Controller (PSC) topology and Omnigraffle22 May 2016·265 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Automation Omnigraffle PSC Script Topology vSphere
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
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
ESXi Embedded Host Client12 August 2015·205 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Awesome VMware vSphere Web Client
VMware Software Manager - Changing Download Directory13 March 2015·235 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure VMware VMware Software Manager vSphere
The vSphere 6.0 Launch and The Misinformation Effect10 February 2015·342 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Beta Misinformation NDA VMware vSphere
Dude, where is my VAIO?3 February 2015·491 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Gorilla SanDisk VAIO 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
VMware Certified Professional Recertification8 March 2014·376 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Certification VCAP VCP VMware vSphere
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
Fixing "Could not create vFlash cache" error when powering on a VM19 January 2014·722 words·4 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure featured SSD vCenter VCSA vFlash Read Cache vSphere Web Client
vPostgres Database Backup in vCSA 5.51 October 2013·534 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Appliance Backup VCSA VMware vPostgres vSphere
Upgrading vSphere vCenter Appliance 5.1 to 5.530 September 2013·211 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Appliance Upgrade vCenter VCSA 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
vSphere 5.5 Availability and VSAN Public Beta12 September 2013·178 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Speculation VMware vSAN vSphere
Veeam Webinar & NFR Licenses5 September 2013·96 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Veeam Backup & Replication NFR Veeam vSphere Webinar
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 HTTP Based Deployment14 May 2013·399 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Automation Deployment fun http Python realworld vMA VMware vSphere
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
Backing up vCenter DB with Veeam B&R 6.525 March 2013·359 words·2 minsVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Automation Backup Ops realworld vCenter Veeam VMware vSphere workaround
Preserve your Veeam B&R Backups Jobs when Moving vCenter19 March 2013·486 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Ops vCenter Veeam Veeam Backup & Replication VMware vSphere workaround
Autolab goes Cloudy with a Chance of Free Credits14 March 2013·127 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Alastair Cooke Autolab Cloud Freebie fun Home Lab Mike Laverick VMware vSphere
Unsupported Network Configurations in Virtual Appliances19 February 2013·475 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure fun Hands-on Labs Linux SUSE Unsupported Virtual Appliance VMware vSphere
vCenter Operations Manager and vCenter Deployment Dependency16 January 2013·448 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure vCenter vCenter Operations Manager Virtualization VMware vSphere workaround
Fun and Games with VDR and Snapshots10 January 2013·599 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Datastore Snapshot VDR VMware 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
VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.6 Available30 November 2012·226 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Release vCenter Operations Manager 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
vShield Endpoint Entitlement, not just for vSphere 5.15 October 2012·123 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Licensing VMware vShield vSphere
VMware ESXi 4 vs ESXi 5 Log File Locations17 September 2012·243 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESXi Log Files Ops VMware vSphere
Verifying VMware Downloads11 September 2012·466 words·3 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure bash Download Integrity MD5 OS X SHA1 Terminal 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
Thinapped vSphere Client Updated to V5.031 May 2012·172 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Free Tools fun realworld ThinApp VMware vSphere
vCenter Client Download URLs12 March 2012·103 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Download featured Self Help vCenter Client VMware vSphere
Creating and Using a Virtual Floppy in vSphere7 January 2012·331 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Bitlocker Encryption ESXi Floppy Howto TPM vSphere
Building The Ultimate vSphere Lab Series3 January 2012·54 words·1 minChristian MohnHome Lab Home Lab Sammy Bogaert VMware vSphere VMware Workstation
Testing VMware vSphere 5 Swap to Host Cache22 November 2011·352 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Experiment Host Cache SSD VMware vSphere
vSphere 5: ESXi Installation Video25 August 2011·34 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure ESXi fun video Virtualization VMware vSphere
VMFS-5: Block Size Me5 August 2011·393 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Block Size Datastore Storage VMFS 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
Zerto: Or What I Learned at Tech Field Day #6!27 June 2011·555 words·3 minsVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Disaster Recovery Tech Field Day Virtualization VMware vSphere Zerto
7 Expert Tips for Managing Your Remote vSphere Infrastructure20 June 2011·144 words·1 minChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure published Veeam Virtualization VMware vSphere Whitepaper
vCenter Integration Mantra10 June 2011·335 words·2 minsChristian MohnVirtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Ops Rant realworld Tech Field Day vCenter VMware vSphere
