PT-2025-14620 · Vmware · Vmware Vmfs

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: VMware VMFS affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns a directory traversal vulnerability in the VMware VMFS file system. No information is provided about the estimated number of potentially affected devices worldwide or...

BlackBasta is the latest ransomware to target ESXi virtual machines on Linux

BlackBasta, an alleged subdivision of the ransomware group Conti, just began supporting the encryption of VMwares ESXi virtual machines VM installed on enterprise Linux servers. Because more and more organizations have begun using VMs for cost-effectiveness and easier management of devices, this...

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...

[DEFT 7.2] Computer Forensic live system

DEFT 7.2 released its last 32bit release but we will support bugfix until 2020. DEFT is a new concept of Computer Forensic live system that uses LXDE as desktop environment and thunar file manager and mount manager as tool for device management. It is a very easy to use system that includes an...

Backup Jobs fail after upgrade from ESX to ESXi

Challenge After upgrading VMware servers, all backup jobs have the following error: "Invalid SoapPath link: "/vmfs/volumes/YourPath" 'Text' is an invalid XmlNodeType." Cause The issue occurs because we are not able to use local storage on an ESXi server as the target for a repository because...

Direct-SAN Transport mode – Requirements and Troubleshooting

Purpose This article documents how to set up Direct SAN Access for use with Veeam Backup & Replication. The Direct SAN access transport mode is recommended for VMs whose disks are located on shared VMFS SAN LUNs that are connected to ESXi hosts over FC, FCoE, iSCSI, and on shared SAS storage. In...

How to setup SAN access for use with Veeam Backup & Replication.

Purpose This article documents how to set up Direct SAN Access for use with Veeam Backup & Replication. The Direct SAN access transport mode is recommended for VMs whose disks are located on shared VMFS SAN LUNs that are connected to ESXi hosts over FC, FCoE, iSCSI, and on shared SAS storage. In...