#vmware

#vmware

The document notes that as of 2024 VMware dominated the server virtualization market with over 96 percent of revenue share, and that none of its rivals can completely match the capabilities of Virtzilla's stack. But Gartner feels "many" of its clients are sufficiently upset by Broadcom's actions, which have usually seen VMware customers' software costs rise 300 to 400 percent, that they have lost trust in the virtualization pioneer and are ready to "explore alternatives for current and/or future infrastructure requirements."

On September 13th, VMware advised the migration would take place between the 19th and 21st, and that the upgrade process would mean the existing VMware Cloud Services Portal became read-only. On the last day of the planned migration VMware wrote to customers "to inform you that the anticipated transition of the VMware Cloud Services Portal to the new Cloud Services Console on Broadcom will not be going live on September 21 as originally communicated."

The threat actor leveraged combinations of sophisticated and stealthy techniques creating multilayered attack kill chains to facilitate access to restricted and segmented network assets within presumed to be isolated environments.

To deploy Wazuh, first download the OVA file, then import it into VMware, ensuring enough disk space and a bridged network configuration for agent communication.

Over the past few weeks, VMware customers holding onto their perpetual licenses, which are often unsupported and in limbo, have reportedly begun receiving formal cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom.

"This is the first time VMware ESXi was exploited in the Pwn2Own hacking event," Praveen Singh and Monty Ijzerman, from the product security and incident response team in the VMware Cloud Foundation division of Broadcom, wrote on the company's website.

AWS generated migration wave plans for 500 VMs in just 15 minutes and performed networking translations up to 80x faster than traditional methods.

"Now it's back in the market, reflecting the increased need for entry-level virtualization solutions as businesses and individuals explore modern infrastructure management."