Find all VMs with XHCI USB controller 21 Dec 2020 8:49 AM (4 years ago)
Just a quick heads up about VMSA-2020-0026 and especially about (CVE-2020-4004) concerning the XHCI (USB3) Controller. Use-after-free vulnerability in XHCI USB controller (CVE-2020-4004) DescriptionVMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Critical severity range with a maximum … Continue reading Find all VMs with XHCI USB controller
Update-Module VMware.PowerCLI – Unable to find repository 10 Apr 2020 5:43 AM (5 years ago)
On one of my development machines (old school Windows 2012 R2 with PowerShell 5.1) I tried to upgrade the VMware.PowerCLI module to the latest version. But this time it was not just type the “update-module VMware.PowerCLI” command and you’re ready. Instead I received the following error: Unable to find repository ‘https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2′. Use Get-PSRepository to see … Continue reading Update-Module VMware.PowerCLI – Unable to find repository
Network issues with VMware Tools 10.2.0 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Guest VMs 24 Apr 2018 8:27 PM (6 years ago)
When you’re (still) running Windows 2008 R2 and are using VMware Tools 10.2.0 you might run in an issue regarding to network loss. VMware has published KB54459. Windows Server 2008 R2 guest VM ports are exhausted after upgrading to VMware Tools 10.2.0 Details: Guest virtual machine ports are exhausted after a few days. Networking is … Continue reading Network issues with VMware Tools 10.2.0 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Guest VMs
Fusion: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to 10 Oct 2017 7:05 PM (7 years ago)
After installing Fusion 10 on my MacBook and creating a new Windows 10 VM. I was unable to poweron the new VM. I received the error “Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to” The fix was easy. Go to: “System Preferences > Security & Privacy” and press “Allow”.
Veeam: Bitlooker & Powershell 29 Jan 2017 7:49 PM (8 years ago)
In this post I will share some Powershell code to enable or disable the feature BitLooker for your Veeam jobs. Since Bitlooker is a “new” feature you have to enable it on your jobs that are created before you installed Veeam v9 or higher. I my case we are running Veeam Backup for quite some … Continue reading Veeam: Bitlooker & Powershell
Powershell: Veeam Cloud Connect total virtual machines report 11 Jan 2017 7:38 PM (8 years ago)
The PowerShell script below helps you to create a simple overview of your Veeam Cloud Connect environment. The environment where this script is developed in consist of two Veeam Cloud Connect Backup servers. The first server will be used for the Cloud Connect Backup solution and the second server will be used for the Cloud … Continue reading Powershell: Veeam Cloud Connect total virtual machines report
PowerCLI: Reconfigure for vSphere HA 22 Jan 2016 12:12 PM (9 years ago)
Sometimes when you change something to the vSphere HA configuration like an Advanced Option, you have to reconfigure vSphere HA on each host inside that particular cluster. You can do that by hand via the Reconfigure for vSphere HA.. option inside the vSphere (Web) Client: Or you can use the following PowerCLI one-liner to perform … Continue reading PowerCLI: Reconfigure for vSphere HA
Powershell: Change Veeam San Snapshot Options 22 Jan 2016 11:03 AM (9 years ago)
In the case you want to use the Storage Snapshot feature with Veeam Backup, the feature will be enabled for all the Backup jobs and will be the default option to process a backup job. We only want to enable the feature for certain jobs with a special name convention like SAN-BackupJob-01. So I created … Continue reading Powershell: Change Veeam San Snapshot Options
Powershell: Return Virtual Machines from PernixData FVP Blacklist 15 Apr 2015 1:20 PM (10 years ago)
It’s a long time since my last blog post. So it’s good to be back. In mean time we deployed PernixData FVP and it was fun to play with the Powershell module. You can import the PernixData FVP module installed on the PernixData FVP management server via: Import-Module PrnxCli This post is not about the … Continue reading Powershell: Return Virtual Machines from PernixData FVP Blacklist
ssl-updater.bat: Cannot validate the Lookup Service connection: 3 26 Jan 2015 1:43 PM (10 years ago)
Last week I was working on a change plan to update one of our vSphere environments with new SSL certificates on vSphere 5.1 installed on a Windows virtual machine. When I tried to update the SSL certificates of the vCenter Inventory service, I received the following error message: In the vc-update-ssl.log log file I saw … Continue reading ssl-updater.bat: Cannot validate the Lookup Service connection: 3