- VMWARE VCENTER SERVER INSTALL
- VMWARE VCENTER SERVER UPDATE
- VMWARE VCENTER SERVER UPGRADE
- VMWARE VCENTER SERVER SOFTWARE
This post gives a walk through on a clean installation of vCenter Server 6.7 on Windows Server 2016.
VMWARE VCENTER SERVER INSTALL
All future releases will only be available in VCSA form, if you have not already started planning migration to VCSA see vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 Install Guide and Migrating Windows vCenter Server to VCSA 6.7. It should be noted that vCenter 6.7 is the final release where Windows modules will be available, see here for more information. The vCenter Server is a centralised management application and can be deployed as a virtual appliance or Windows machine. VMware vCenter Server pools ESXi host resources to provide a rich feature set delivering high availability and fault tolerance to virtual machines.
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Finally, the Windows vCenter Server and external PSC deployment models are now depreciated and not available with vSphere 7.0.
VMWARE VCENTER SERVER UPGRADE
Upgrade to vSphere 7 can be achieved directly from vSphere 6.5.0 and above, for more information see the VMware Upgrade Matrix. VMware vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 reaches end of general support 15 October 2022, both referenced in the VMware Lifecycle Matrix.
VMWARE VCENTER SERVER UPDATE
For patching, administrators need to update to the latest fixed version in order to resolve the vulnerability. VMware has released patches to resolve the vulnerability, but have also released workaround steps that can be taken if organizations are unable to patch. The vulnerability can potentially allow malicious attackers to perform commands without authentication by the impacted plugins over port 443. In order to exploit CVE-2021-21985 an attacker would need to have access to port 443, but once available would be able to exploit the vulnerability due to a lack of input validation and gain unrestricted access to the underlying operating system that hosts the vCenter Server.ĬVE-2021-21986 is an authentication mechanism issue within the following plug-ins utilized in vSphere client (HTML5): Impact of CVE-2021-21985 & CVE-2021-21986ĬVE-2021-21985 presents a remote code execution vulnerability within the Virtual SAN Health Check plug-in, which is utilized to verify and validate the health of a Virtual SAN cluster, and is enabled in the default configuration of vCenter server. Cloud Foundation version 3.x (prior to 3.10.2.1).Cloud Foundation version 4.x (prior to 4.2.1).
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vCenter Server version 6.5 (prior to 6.5 U3p).vCenter Server version 6.7 (prior to 6.7 U3n).vCenter Server version 7.0 (prior to 7.0 U2b).
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The two vulnerabilities are CVE-2021-21985 with a critical rating of 9.8 (CVSSv3) and CVE-2021-21986 with a rating 6.5, which are similar to patches released by VMware we wrote about in February.
VMWARE VCENTER SERVER SOFTWARE
On May 25, 2021, VMware released advisory VMSA-2021-0010 for two vulnerabilities impacting vCenter Server, which is management software for VMware vSphere systems.