VMware is urging network administrators to remove an out-of-date plug-in for its VSphere, which has two flaws — one of them critical — that can allow attackers with access to a Windows client system to hijack cloud computing sessions. VMware this week released a security advisory addressing the flaws — one tracked as CVE-2024-22245, with … Read more
VMware Enhanced Authentication Plug-in (EAP), a plugin for VMware vSphere, has two vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-22245, CVE-2024-22250) that could be exploited by attackers to mount authentication relay and session hijack attacks. The vulnerabilities haven’t been and won’t be fixed. Instead, VMware is urging admins to remove the EAP plugin, whose deprecation was announced back in 2021. About … Read more
VMware VSphere Hypervisor Free Edition End Broadcom’s VMware division took a big step today, ending its free VMware vSphere Hypervisor. This is one of those announcements that we were expecting after we covered VMware End of Availability on Many VMware vSphere Editions and VMware Updates its EOA Plan Providing Guidance for Some Subscription Transition, but it is … Read more
VMware VSphere 8 Trial 2024 01 16 VMware just announced the end-of-availability for a number of its products. The company just listed a large number of mainstream products that are now end-of availability due to the Broadcom acquisition and the transition to subscription models. Products on this latest announcement are going to be felt by … Read more
VMware si NurPhoto via Getty Images VMware recently revealed changes in how VMware products will be licensed and sold, consolidating offerings into two basic bundles. Shortly after announcing the new bundles, the company said that it would also be reducing the subscription price of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) “by half,” surprising many industry analysts and … Read more
In-Depth Running VMware Workstation on a Monster Mini-PC SimplyNUC recently released its most powerful AMD-powered mini-PC, the Moonstone, and I was lucky enough to get my hands on one! Spoiler alert: This thing is a beast in a very small package. [Click on image for larger view.] My job as a technical marketing engineer at … Read more
News VMware, Intel Team Up to ‘Enable Private AI Everywhere’ VMware announced a collaboration with Intel to make AI more accessible and private across various environments like datacenters, public clouds and edge environments. The two companies will deliver a validated AI stack that will enable customers to use their existing VMware and Intel infrastructure and … Read more
In-Depth Why You Need to Attend VMware Explore Europe 2023 I attended VMware Explore in Las Vegas this year, and I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from it as the Covid pandemic was still on everyone’s mind, VMware is going through a transitional period as its buyout by Broadcom moves along, and the IT … Read more
How-To Running VMware Workstation on a Low-Cost Mini PC I ran some benchmarking tools on the ACEMAGIC AD15 Mini PC in a previous article. I found that it was very performant with its 8-core/16-thread Intel Core i7 11800H Processor. This led me to believe that VMware Workstation would perform very well on it. Workstation is … Read more
How to Pass Host Hardware Information to a VMware Workstation VM There are various reasons why you may want to reflect the actual hardware the VM is running on rather than as a VM; by adding these three lines to the VMware configuration file, you can easily reflect this. If you’ve followed my series of … Read more