In a recent security advisory (VMSA-2024-0013), there is a workaround listed for hosts older than ESXi 8.0u3 (https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/369707). This knowledge base article lists a few advanced settings and an esxcli command which can be ran to apply this workaround. Setting advanced settings and invoking esxcli are two things that PowerCLI…
I was recently helping troubleshoot an issue where a service account was configured with the least privileges possible. When the service attempted to perform a specific operation, an access denied message was encountered. The service performing this action immediately cleaned up after itself, deleting the virtual machine that was created.…
I was recently speaking with someone who was encountering an Access Denied issue when trying to P2V an older CentOS physical machine. The specific error they were getting was The thumbprint of the remote host you are connecting to is: Access denied. Screenshot below for reference: I was able to…
PowerCLI 13.3 was recently released (https://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2024/07/introducing-powercli-13-3.html). This release has a handful of really good features that we’ll explore below. vSphere modules updated to vSphere 8.0U3 The vSphere modules in PowerCLI 13.3 have been updated to support vSphere 8.0U3 features. One of the 8.0U3 features I was interested in automating was…
I had a recent need to dig into MongoDB monitoring with Aria Operations. In those posts, I used a preconfigured Bitnami MongoDB virtual appliance. This virtual appliance used MongoDB Community Edition. As a follow-up, I was looking into if it were possible to use an active directory user for monitoring…