It’s no secret that in recent months, Broadcom has been dragging their feet getting CVSS 9+ patches in the hands of people that no longer have active support. In fact I covered this along with some other means of mitigations previously. However, I recently stumbled across some changes I noticed …
Read More »Mitigating VMware CVE’s Without Patching
A lot of people are looking at other options after the Broadcom buyout of VMware. That is no secret at this point, although some of the die hards out there will completely deny it. Those choosing to move on and not buy into the subscription model who have perpetual licenses …
Read More »The Most Common Mistake Made in VMware vSphere Networking
It seems I have had a number of the same conversations in recent weeks about a very particular topic, and some could argue a design flaw, with the most basic of VMware vSphere deployments. This has to do with using an overly simplistic deployment whereby the ESX host is only …
Read More »The 2020 Cohesity vExpert Gift Progam
Every year Cohesity, like other companies that support the vExpert Program, try to do something to show their appreciation for the community. In the past there has been backpacks, last year was some tee shirts and charging portfolios. Every year it does get harder and harder to come up with …
Read More »Could Have, Should Have, Would Have….
Some days you wake up and wonder ‘What If..?” For whatever reason today was that day. I woke up thinking about what would be different if I did this, or made that decision instead. I pledged a long time ago to myself never to day “Should’ve, Could’ve, Would’ve”, but as …
Read More »How To Configure NSX IPSEC VPN With AWS, Azure, and GCP
The last few weeks I have been putting together a new lab for my team at Cohesity to use for live demos. Part of the overall design was to allow for VPN connections to the various clouds that Cohesity supports so we can demonstrate real world use cases with Cloud …
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