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This is a video taken by Rick Sloof at Wednesday, August 23 at the strip in Las Vegas. It was picked-up by several big media company's like the BBC and ABC news. At this day in 2023, the VMware Explore Party took place in the WynnXS Las Vegas.

Dimitri Desmidt over at VMware has created a great presentation about NSX Anti-Malware Detection.

Here's a list with the topics:

What’s new in NSX 4.0.1 NSX Malware Detection and Prevention

• What is it?
• How does NSX Malware Detection and Prevention work?
• Malware Detection and Prevention
• Gateway Malware Detection
• Distributed Malware Detection and Prevention
• NSX Malware Detection and Prevention - Reporting
• NSX Malware Detection and Prevention Requirements / Limitations / Scale

Advanced points:

• NSX Malware Detection and Prevention High-Availability
• Malware File DB Population
• NSX Malware Detection and Prevention Installation
• NSX Malware Detection and Prevention Upgrade
• Supported Windows versions and VMware Tools releases

vSphere Diagnostic Tool is a Python script that runs diagnostic commands on the vCenter Server Photon Appliance to return useful troubleshooting data while running within the confines of the local environment without upstream dependencies.

The motivation behind this tools is to provide multiple Pass/Fail tests to quickly facilitate the rapid isolation of issues encountered in the vSphere environment.

• vCenter Basic Info
• Lookup Service Check
• AD Check
• vCenter Certificate Check
• Core File Check
• Disk Check
• vCenter DNS Check
• vCenter NTP Check
• vCenter Port Check
• Root Account Check
• vCenter Services Check
• VCHA Check

General Improvements:

• VDT now supports 8.0 U1!
• VDT 1.1.5 will no longer support vCenter 6.7, although many checks will still work. 1.1.4 will remain available for anyone still needing it on the 6.x product line.
• Credentials are now validated at the start. The user is notified that checks requiring authentication will not run if password validation fails 3x times.
• The default timeout behavior has changed. It now prompts a user to skip the check or let it run, instead of requiring the --force flag.

VC Database Check:

• The VCDB check now shows statistics levels as well as tasks and event retention policies.
• The VCDB check output is now in line with the results from KB 1028356.

VC VMDIR Check:

• The vmdir check now includes ELM partner information and tests port connectivity over 389, 443, 2012, and 2020 to them. The old port check has been removed in favor of this.
• The vmdir check now looks for stale (native) PSC HA config in the likewise registry

VC Certificate Check

• Certificate expiry time is now displayed with each certificate message.
• he vmdir cert from 6.0 is no longer included in the list of certificate checks

Bug fixes:

• VDT now decodes to utf-8 instead of ascii to avoid parsing errors
• Updated KB references

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