KB2903: vSphere 5.5/6.0 VM Backup fails with "Exception of type 'Veeam.Backup.AgentProvider.AgentClosedException' was thrown"

Challenge When backing up a VM within an environment running vSphere 5.5 or vSphere 6.0 the job fails with: Exception of type 'Veeam.Backup.AgentProvider.AgentClosedException' was thrown Copy Version Requirement The error listed above has many causes. Directly interpreted, it means that a process...

Security Bulletin: IBM Upward Integration Modules (UIM) is affected by vulnerabilities in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160 and CVE-2014-0076)

Summary Security vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL. Vulnerability Details Summary Security vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL. Vulnerability Details: CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0160 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an...

App Layering/Unidesk: vSphere ESX hosts in Maintenance Mode can unpredictably fail tasks

Tasks for operations on ESX hosts and VMFS datastores fail with errors about hosts losing connection or objects being in the wrong state...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Malboxes - Builds Malware Analysis Windows VMs So That You Don'T Have To

Builds malware analysis Windows virtual machines so that you don’t have to. Requirements Python 3.3+ packer: https://www.packer.io/docs/install/index.html vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html VirtualBox or an vSphere / ESXi server Minimum specs for the build machine At least 5 GB of...

VMware vSphere Data Protection 6.0.x < 6.0.9 / 6.1.x < 6.1.10 Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2018-0029)

The version of VMware vSphere Data Protection installed on the remote host is 6.0.x 6.0.9 and 6.1.x 6.1.10. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities: - A remote command execution vulnerability. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to bypass authentication and...

"Failed to detach SCSI lun" errors in vSphere after finishing Instant Recovery or File-level restore from storage snapshots

Challenge You might see "Failed to detach SCSI lun" errors in vSphere during the unexport phase when restoring items file-level restore from storage snapshot or doing an Instant Recovery from storage snapshot because of certain VMware behaviour. Both types of the restores include a step when...

VMware Releases Security Updates

VMware has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in vSphere Data Protection. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review the VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2018-0029 and apply the...

VMSA-2018-0029:vSphere Data Protection (VDP) updates address multiple security issues.

VMSA-2018-0029 vSphere Data Protection VDP updates address multiple security issues. VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2018-0029 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Critical VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: vSphere Data Protection VDP updates address multiple...

Replication Error: The name '{vmname}' already exists.

Challenge Veeam Backup & Replication replication job fails with the following error message: Processing Error: The name 'replica' already exists. When the error above occurs within Veeam Backup & Replication the following correlating event can be found within the vSphere Events. Cause This error...

Consistent backup failures after installing vSphere 6.7 U1

Challenge After updating vCenter to 6.7U1, processing of all VMs fails with "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." Cause The issue is triggered by an update to the vSphere API version in vCenter 6.7 U1. Solution The issue affects only Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3a...

VMware vSphere Data Protection 6.x Information Disclosure Vulnerability (VMSA-2018-0021

The version of VMware vSphere Data Protection installed on the remote host is 6.x. It is, therefore, affected by an information disclosure vulnerability. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid112208; scriptversion"1.4";...

Release Notes for Veeam Management Pack 8.0 Update 6

Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Management Pack 8.0 Update 6. NOTE : The Veeam Management Pack 8.0 Update 6 cumulative patches for Veeam Backup & Replication monitoring and VMware vSphere 7.0 monitoring are available through kb2940 and kb3172 correspondingly. Cause Please confirm you are runnin...

HPE 3PAR Service Processor Information Disclosure Vulnerability

HPE 3PAR Service Processor SP is a suite of virtual service processors deployed on the VMware vSphere hypervisor from Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE, USA. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in previous versions of HPE 3PAR SP SP-5.0.0.0-22913GA, which can be exploited by an attacker t...

HPE 3PAR Service Processor Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

HPE 3PAR Service Processor SP is a suite of virtual service processors deployed on the VMware vSphere hypervisor from Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE, USA. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in versions prior to HPE 3PAR SP SP-4.4.0.GA-110 MU7 that can be exploited by a remote attacker t...

VMWare VVOL Support With Citrix MCS and PVS

Use of VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes VMware vVOLs with CVAD MCS and PVS environments...

VMware Releases Security Updates

VMware has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in vSphere, Workstation, Fusion, and Virtual Appliances. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to obtain sensitive information. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisories VMSA-2018-0020,...

How to change the timeouts for the vSphere Connector

Sometimes a customer's environment is much slower than we planned for. We saw a scenario where disk moves and copies were taking several hours while still completing successfully. The vSphere connector was timing out much earlier, though. The ability to configure the timeouts is in 4.3 and all...

Veeam Backup & Replication plug-in missing in vSphere HTML5 Web Client after upgrade to VMware vSphere 6.7

Challenge After installing Veeam 9.5 Update 3a and simultaneous upgrade of vSphere from 6.5 to 6.7 Veeam vSphere Web Client Plugin might stop working for vSphere HTML5 Web Client. However it is still operational in vSphere Flash/Flex Web Client. The issue is only reproducible in case the plugin w...

VMSA-2018-0012 : VMware vSphere, Workstation and Fusion updates enable Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigations for Speculative Store Bypass issue (Spectre)

vCenter Server, ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion update speculative execution control mechanism for Virtual Machines VMs. As a result, a patched Guest Operating System GOS can remediate the Speculative Store bypass issue CVE-2018-3639 using the Speculative-Store- Bypass-Disable SSBD control bit. Thi...