Quick Tip – ESXi 7.0 Update 3f now includes all…

Quick Tip – ESXi 7.0 Update 3f now includes all…

Thanks to Reuben F who left a comment on the Community Networking Driver for ESXi Fling asking about something interesting he saw in the latest ESXi 7.0 Update 3f release notes regarding Intel ne1000 driver. ESXi 7.0 Update 3f upgrades the Intel-ne1000 driver to support Intel I219-LM […]


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What’s New in VMware Cloud on AWS – Jul 2022

What’s New in VMware Cloud on AWS – Jul 2022

With ~5 years in the market, VMware Cloud on AWS has been helping customers in accelerating their cloud transformation journey. Customers across different industries and different geographies have been using this service for variety of use cases such as cloud migration, data center extension […]


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First look at the new Supermicro E302-12D (Ice…

First look at the new Supermicro E302-12D (Ice Lake D)

First look at the new Supermicro E302-12D (Ice…

The Intel Xeon D embedded SoC product line is an amazing platform and has been extremely popular amongst VMware customers for VMware Homelabs and running workloads both in the Datacenter and at the Edge using kits like the Supermicro E200-8D and E300-9D to just name a few. While the E200-8D/E300-9D still remain popular, they are […]


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VMware affected by Retbleed Spectre variant -…

VMware affected by Retbleed Spectre variant -…

Well, if you thought that Spectre and Meltdown (security nightmare blasts from the past) were dead, think again. There is a new data-leaking Retbleed Spectre variant that is yet another Spectre-based speculative-execution attack that allows attackers to expose secrets within the kernel memory […]


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Let’s Encrypt for VMware ESXi standalone hosts

Let’s Encrypt for VMware ESXi standalone hosts

A very cool solution for standalone ESXi hosts used in production or home labs that I want to report today. In fact, I have received a quick email from Horst Fickel, which is one of our readers, letting me know that he and his friends have released a lightweight VIB package for VMware ESXi which […]


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New Release – PowerCLI 12.7

New Release – PowerCLI 12.7

New Release – PowerCLI 12.7

The PowerCLI team has some exciting news this week! PowerCLI version 12.7 is out and it’s packed with lots of new and exciting features. We have made a long requested module available on PowerShell Core, extended many cmdlets and added some new ones, and also improved the performance of others. PowerCLI 12.7 comes with the … Continued The post New Release – PowerCLI 12.7 appeared first on VMware PowerCLI Blog.


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Emulating a Virtual USB storage device using…

Emulating a Virtual USB storage device using…

My buddy Alan Renouf had pinged me earlier today and asked whether it was possible to emulate a USB storage device that could aide him in the testing the installation of ESXi from a USB device but without having to use a real USB device. I honestly was not aware of any mechanisms that would […]


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What’s new in VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update…

What’s new in VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update…

Guys heads up. There is a new vCenter Server update and ESXi hosts update to take note of. The new vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3f release and ESXi 7.0 Update 3f release take care of quite a few security vulnerabilities. Let’s dive into this release and see what security vulnerabilities are […]


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