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Technology

  • VMware STIG Tools Appliance

    This post provides an overview of the VMware STIG Tools Appliance and how it supports automated STIG compliance across VMware environments. It explains how auditing, remediation, and reporting workflows work together to produce assessor-ready artifacts while reducing the operational burden of manual STIG implementation.

  • VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) ESXi 9.0.1 Installer in the Lab

    Overview I run a home lab built on older Intel Xeon CPUs, which are no longer supported by modern versions of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). Since this is a non-production lab environment, I’m using nested virtualization to continue my testing and learning. In this post, I’ll walk through how I’m bypassing the CPU-compatibility checks so…

  • Delete Failed Aria Suite Lifecycle Requests

    Working with VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle often leaves behind a growing list of Failed requests. Manually clearing them through the API gets old fast, so I created a simple script that logs in, retrieves failed requests, and deletes them automatically—even when running directly from the appliance.