Category Archives: Security

Changing the default Nutanix Passwords on your cluster from the Prism Central GUI

Posted on January 10, 2025 by josh@sostechblog.com

Last year (starting with Prism Central 2023.4 / AOS 6.71) Nutanix added the ability to centrally manage the local users (admin and nutanix) on AOS clusters and Prism Central itself through the PC GUI. Really useful for getting rid of … Continue reading →

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Blank pages in Salesforce Lighting Experience

Posted on July 17, 2020 by josh@sostechblog.com

While running through some SalesForce training (mostly on TrailHead) I suddenly found lots of pages were coming up blank. The menus seemed to work, and switching to Classic worked, but some of the pages I needed were Lightning-specific. Inspecting the … Continue reading →

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VMWorld 2018: Monday

Posted on August 27, 2018 by josh@sostechblog.com

Today kicked off with the main keynote featuring Pat Gelsinger.  There were several new announcements including: Amazon RDS database service will now run on your local VMware servers VMware ESXi now fully supports ARM processors VSAN now supports S3 storage … Continue reading →

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Day 1: VMware Center for Advanced Learning – Advanced Architecture Course

Posted on May 14, 2018 by josh@sostechblog.com

Every wish there was a 9-day/81-hour course to propel you down the road to being a VMware Architect?   Wish no more. The VMware Center for Advanced Learning has gone live with a course intended to: Strengthen architectural & solution outcome skills in … Continue reading →

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VMware on AWS Quick Hits

Posted on August 31, 2017 by josh@sostechblog.com

vSphere plus SDDC Manager (VMware Cloud Foundation) plus NSX-V hosted on bare-metal at   AWS. VMware manages hardware account and bills you (separate from any AWS account you have) 4 nodes to start – each 2 socket/36 core, 512GB RAM, … Continue reading →

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VMware AppDefense Quick Hits

Posted on August 30, 2017 by josh@sostechblog.com

Brought to you by the NSBU at VMware, home of NSX-V, NSX-T, VRNI. Cloud-based with a local “proxy” (assuming local need). Developer-focuses with tie-ins to development stream to track changes. Supports Windows 2012, 2012R2, 2016 with *nix support coming. Loads … Continue reading →

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VMware NSX-T Quick Hits

Posted on August 30, 2017 by josh@sostechblog.com

NSX-T(ransformers) is a multi-hypervisor (ESX/KVM) cousin of NSX-V. Same SKU (if you own NSX-V 6.x, you own NSX-T 2.x). One NSX-T Manager can have multiple vCenters as “Compute endpoints” Standalone HTML5 client (not WebClient) NSX-T Edges can be VMs or … Continue reading →

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Free NSX books from VMware

Posted on August 28, 2017 by josh@sostechblog.com

VMware NSX Micro-segmentation: Day 1 Guide VMware NSX Micro-segmentation: Day 2 Guide VMware Operationalizing NSX Automating NSX for vSphere with PowerNSX

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VCAP6-NV (VCIX6-NV) Sample Question 10

Posted on May 18, 2017 by josh@sostechblog.com

Sample Question Intro HOL: HOL-1703-SDC-1 – VMware NSX: Introduction and Feature Tour Prerequisites: none Lab: Module 5 : Distributed Firewall Question 10 The security team has requested new rules to protect an externally-facing three-tier app. Requirements: VMware web client login: administrator@vsphere.local … Continue reading →

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VCAP6-DCV Deploy Sample Question 8

Posted on May 15, 2017 by josh@sostechblog.com

Sample Question Intro HOL: HOL-1810-01-SDC – Virtualization 101: Introduction to vSphere Prerequisites: None Lab: Module 2 : Understanding Single Sign On Question 8 The administration team has requested a new user with specific permissions. They would also like to use their … Continue reading →

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