Hot off the presses is VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1. Unlike prior "update" releases which are mostly bug fixes, this update packs more of a punch. Full vCenter release notes can be found here. ESXi 5.5 Update 1 release notes are here. What's New: vCloud Hybrid Services vSphere client plug-in...
For several years now Eric Siebert has held voting for the top Virtualization Bloggers. This is a huge undertaking, and this year he has over 300 blogs listed. You should keep in mind several factors when voting, such as longevity, length of content, frequency, and quality. Voting is now open,...
In Part 1 of this two part VMware VCDX journey series I accounted for the first 120 days of my VCP5 to VCDX #125 journey. This post will cover the final 60 days, which were just as important, if not more so, than the first 120. In my last post we...
This is Part 1 of my tale of the last 180 days of my life, my adventure from VCP5 to becoming ...drum roll... VMware VCDX #125. Yes, I successfully defended my design at VMware PEX 2014 in San Francisco this past week, which was for VCDX5-Datacenter Virtualization (DCV)! It was a fun, educational, and...
Now that vSphere 5.5 has been out for a few months, if you haven't already started working with it in your test environment, you should! A lot of great new features, and major improvements to the SSO experience. However, you still may find it a bit challenging to secure vCenter...
Yes, time to update my vSphere 5.5 Toolkit with a few more features and bug fixes. For those of you that need to replace your vSphere 5.5 SSL certificates, the process can be somewhat cumbersome and time consuming. While VMware has a tool to help you replace the certificates once...
After a bit of a delay, I'm finally publishing how to update your ESXi SSL certificate. The process is pretty much unchanged from the 4.x era, but what is new is my Toolkit script. It has been updated to include ESXi certificate support. This is accomplished all in PowerShell, and does...
So now that vCenter 5.5 with VUM is installed, we need to configure a trusted vCenter update manager SSL certificate and then do a few VUM configuration tweaks. These tweaks include configuring HP and Dell repos, plus configuring basic VUM compliance scans. Blog Series SQL 2012 AlwaysOn Failover Cluster for...
Fresh off the press is an updated version of my vCenter 5.5 SSL certificate Toolkit script. Last year when I did my popular vCenter 5.1 install series the posts contain a series of scripts and CLI commands to replace the SSL certificates. While that process worked for many people, it still...
So yes, after a couple of weeks of pausing on the vSphere 5.5 series I'm back with installing VUM. The VUM install pretty much follows the process we had for vCenter 5.1. In case you haven't heard, VUM is also growing feathers like the Windows VI client and will soon...