Just like clockwork, the day VMware releases a major update to ESXi, HP releases customized installation media the same day. Hard to beat such great and timely support for your VMware environment! Last week VMware released vSphere 5.1 Update 1, and also posted was the HP ESXi 5.1 update 1...
VMware vSphere 5.1 update 1 is probably one of the most recently anticipated updates of the VMware stack and it has finally hit the streets. For those of you following the release of vSphere 5.1, you have seen the GA release last fall, followed by 5.1.0a then a couple of...
Last month at the March San Diego VMUG they had Mark Davis (former CEO) from Virsto give a very informative presentation and some details on why VMware acquired them. I would have gotten this article done sooner, but between getting my new blog site up and other things it's been...
A few minutes ago I flipped the DNS records and setup redirection so the Derek Seaman blog is now at new domain with a fresh coat of paint. Any traffic to derek858.blogspot.com will now be redirected to www.derekseaman.com. This site is based on WordPress, which I'm really loving. I still have many tweaks to...
Back in January 2009 I started my own blog, after blogging for a former employer as one of our quarterly professional development goals. Since then I've managed to write over 400 articles, and got over 1200 comments. I was also awarded VMware vExpert status in 2012 for my blogging efforts. With the...
Continuing on from Part 3Â of the VMware vCenter Certificate Automation Tool series, we are now ready to replace the Web Client and Log Browser SSL certificates. If you want to start at the beginning, check out Part 1. 1. Pressing 5 takes us back to the main menu. Now we...
Continuing from Part 2 of my VMware vCenter Certificate Automation tool series, we are now ready to replace the vCenter server and vCenter Orchestrator certificates. If you want to start at the beginning, check out Part 1. 1. Per the pre-planning guide step 4 I exit back to the main menu...
Continuing from Part 1 of my VMware vCenter Certificate Automation tool, we are finally at the point where we can review what the built-in planner advises we do, and then replace our certificates. If you missed Part 1, go back and execute all of the steps or you have a better chance...
For those of you that have installed vSphere 5.1 and tried to use your own trusted SSL certificates, you will probably find the experience extremely tedious, cumbersome, error prone, and vastly harder than any product you've used before. Now out is the VMware vCenter Certificate Automation tool v1.0, to make...
Today VMware announced their first stab at helping customers manage the SSL certificate replacement challenge that we face with vSphere 5.1: VMware vCenter Certificate Automation Tool v1.0. For anyone that has followed my 15-part series on vSphere 5.1 installation, you will know the certificate portions are quite a challenge and a source of...
For a number of years vSphere-Land has a vote drive for the top VMware Virtualization blogs. After some nail biting for the last week, the results are finally in! And to my surprise and delight I was voted into the Top 25 Virtualization Bloggers for 2013, at number 24. I...
As a quick recap of this series we are installing VMware Horizon View 5.2 for a small pilot of a Windows 8 VDI desktop. In Part 1 we installed the Connection Server, in Part 2 we configured an SSL certificate, and in Part 3Â we performed some basic Connection Server configuration....