There are a variety of ways to create a trusted SSL certificate in the Windows world, but this article will focus on an internal network that has a Windows Server 2008 R2 Certificate Authority and member servers. This guide will show you how to create a custom Microsoft CA SSL...
Update: Slightly changed the discussing regarding the required certificate template type. The key to creating a certificate that will work with View is enabling the "allow private key export" option on the certificate. A "computer" or "web server" certificate will work, IF this option is enabled when the certificate is...
Yesterday, May 16, 2012 VMware released View 5.1, which has many nice improvements over View 5.0. You can find a link to all the latest documentation here. If you are licensed for View, you can download the bits here. The most exciting feature to me is CBRC, which can help...
Similar to my post on how to create custom Cisco UCS ESXi 5.0 installation media, I thought I would tackle the same problem for HP ProLiant servers. Yes, HP does provide regularly updated ESXi installation media that bundles in their drivers, but it doesn't always have the latest security patches....
On May 3rd, 2012 VMware released some very critical security patches for many versions of ESX/ESXi, (3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0), Workstation and Player. This updates bring the ESXi 4.1 build up to 702113 and ESXi 5.0 up to 702118. Given that you can potentially cause mayhem from inside a guest...
One of the tasks you should complete during the installation of the Cisco UCS Manager is configuring the Fabric Interconnects with a trusted SSL certificate. The procedure is straight forward, and only needs to be completed once, since the two Fabric Interconnects are clustered and the configuration is replicated between...
For those of you using Cisco UCS servers and the new Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2012, check out the UCS Management Pack v2.5. You can download it from here. According to the release notes the following operating systems are supported:Windows Vista Windows Server 2008Windows Server 2008 R2Windows 7What's new...
If you are a Cisco UCS customer and want to experiment with configurations but don't want to mess up your production environment, Cisco offers the free UCS Platform Emulator VM. They regularly update the emulator, and their most current version is v2.0.94849.368934. You can download the emulator here. You can...
For those of you that don't already have a good monitoring solution for your VMware infrastructure, and use MS Operations Manager, you need to check out the Veeam Management Pack. It's a good solution for single pane monitoring of your MS and VMware infrastructure. They are currently running a special...
Ever since I can remember Compaq/HP has offered their Insight Manager. Hot off the presses is their new 7.0 version which sports some major upgrades. You can download the multi-gigabyte ISO images here for free. Even if you don't use Insight Manager, you might be very interested in their totally...
A few days ago VMware released a public draft of the vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide. Unlike the vSphere 4.0 Hardening Guide that I've talked about before, this version only comes in an Excel Spreadsheet form. Personally, I think the PDF format of the 4.0 Guide is easier to read, but...
One of the new features added to vSphere 5.0 is a web client. The web client is a slimmed down version of the vSphere client that you can access from a browser. It doesn't have 100% of the features of the fat vSphere client, but it's a great way to...