Just received confirmation from Broadcom Support that the CSP‑97577 patch for vIDM has been officially pulled. “The engineering team removed the CSP‑97577 patch as it was causing a few issues with vIDM.” – Broadcom Support
After patching two vIDM clusters with CSP-97577 (and addressing the known issues), I encountered an unexpected alert in SDDC Manager the following day: “3 accounts have been disconnected. Visit Password Management page to take action.” Clicking Manage took me to the Password Management page, where all three vIDM nodes were listed as disconnected. My first… Read More SDDC Manager Flags Account(s) as Disconnected After vIDM CSP‑97577 Patch
VMware Aria Operations for Networks 6.14.1 is a maintenance release that rolls up content from patches 1 through 6 for version 6.14. This release focuses on platform stability, Ubuntu OS security fixes, and bug resolutions across multiple core areas. 🛠️ Key Fixes and Improvements
Update 2025-08-21: CSP-97577 has been pulled. The CSP-97577 patch instructions (KB 404054) have been updated to reference a new article: KB 406308 – Known Issues after Applying vIDM CSP-97577 Patch. This KB outlines the three issues I highlighted yesterday and provides guidance for affected environments. After applying the CSP-97577 patch to vIDM, you may encounter::
🔄 Update 2025-08-05: It turns out both Broadcom support and I may have been a bit early in expecting a patch release. As of now, there’s no confirmed ETA for the updated vIDM patch. However, Broadcom has confirmed that a knowledge base (KB) article is in the works to address known issues with patch CSP-97577.… Read More New Patch Bundle for Workspace ONE Access (vIDM) Expected Today 2025-08-04 (post updated – new KB is expected first)
🔄 Update 2025-08-04 Broadcom have released a new KB 406032 – “VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18 Patch 3 Installation Runbook” confirming the /etc/fstab problem described her, and also a new potential problem with a missing GPG key. 📌 Overview With the recent security and bugfix updates from Broadcom (I posted about it here), I applied… Read More Preventing “Failed to mount /boot” after Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18.0 PATCH3 Upgrade
📌 Overview Broadcom has issued VMSA‑2025‑0014, a security advisory addressing a denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE‑2025‑41241) in VMware vCenter Server. The advisory was published on July 29, 2025. In parallel, Broadcom released updates for multiple VMware products to address this and other issues. 📢 Update July 31, 2025: Heads up on ASLCM PATCH3. You need to manually… Read More Broadcom releases VMware VMSA‑2025‑0014 Security Advisory and multiple VMware product releases
The last couple of months I’ve seen this error in a Workspace One Access Cluster (WSA/vIDM), installed in a VCF4 environment: “There was a problem with Messaging service. Error retrieving rabbitmq status.” WSA System Diagnostics Dashboard (node 3) WSA was initially installed with v3.3.4 on VCF 4.2. The last couple of weeks we’ve upgraded the… Read More vIDM v3.3: “There was a problem with Messaging service. Error retrieving rabbitmq status.”
Reading the documentation for vRealize Network Insight (vRNI), you find this: Currently, vRealize Network Insight supports only UDP for communication between vRealize Network Insight servers and remote syslog servers. So ensure that your remote syslog servers are configured to accept syslog traffic over UDP. VMware vRNI Docs The link in the annotation above shows you how to configure syslog… Read More vRealize Network Insight secure log forwarding to vRealize Log Insight
Correct sizing of vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) is not easy. While it’s easy to go with extra large “just to be safe” it might be better to start smaller and then scale up (more resources) and later out (cluster) when needed. Also keep in mind that vRNI requires 100% resource reservations for CPU and RAM,… Read More Vertical Scale Up of vRealize Network Insight with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager
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