Certificates and VMware don’t go together like a horse and carriage… And while I’ve never really had a major issue with SSL certs in VMware mainly because on a personal level I am ok with using self signed or default certificates (queue security nuts) I was forced recently to change a publicly signed vCenter SSL […] Read More
Quick Fix: vCenter 5.5 Update 3x Phone Home Warning and VPXD Service not Starting
This week I’ve been upgrading vCenter in a couple of our labs and came across this issue during and after the upgrade of vCenter from 5.5 Update 2 to 5.5 Update 3a or 3b. During the upgrade of the vCenter the error below is thrown. It’s an easy one to ignore as it only relates […] Read More
Quick Fix: VCSA Web Client 6.0 Throws Monitoring Errors
This quick fix post is for those out there who are still using vCenter Operations Manager 5.8.x and are or thinking about deploying or upgrading to vCenter 6.0…I came across this annoying situation all of a sudden while working on a new vCenter instance when the Web Client started to report the error shown below. This can be […] Read More
vSphere 5.5 Update 3 Released: Features and Top Fixes
vSphere 5.5 Update 3 was released earlier today and there are a bunch of bug fixes and feature improvements in this update release for both vCenter and ESXi. For most Service Providers updating to vSphere 6.0 is still a while away so it’s good to have continued support and improvement for the 5.5 platform. I’ve […] Read More
January vCenter and ESXi 5.5 Patch Releases: Critical CBT Bug Fixed
VMware released new builds for vCenter and ESXi 5.5 today. The builds contain mostly bug fixes, but I wanted to point out one fix that had affected those who use CBT as part of their VM backup strategy. Veeam users where initially affected by the bug…though Veeam released a work around in subsequent Veeam 8 builds this […] Read More
vCOPS 5.8: Critical Data Collection Bug
UPDATE: VMware Global Support supplied me with vCOPs 5.8.0 Hot Fix 01 Build 1537842 which is available via a support request. This is a complete .pak update so you will need to go through the upgrade process as per usual. The issue of the missing data has been resolved, however I did need to go […] Read More
vCenter SSO 5.5: AD Group Membership Gotchya
I’ve been running vCenter SSO 5.5 in mixed mode with vCenter 5.1 for a little while in our lab and production environment and recently had to configure external authentication for access against a subset of VMs we host. I covered how to setup a vCenter 5.1 AD Identity source in a this previous post, and the […] Read More
vCenter SSO 5.5 Backwards Compatability: Mixed Mode Install
While at a post #vFourmAU event last week a group of us where talking about SSO in vCenter 5.1 and what a disaster it had been (credibility wise) and that VMware had done their best to improve the experience in the 5.5 release. Out of that conversation came word that if people where looking to […] Read More
How-To: vCenter 5.1 SSO Adding AD Identity Source
The SSO Component of vCenter 5.1 throws a couple of spanners in the works with regards to a straight forward upgrade of an existing vCenter install. While not overly complicated in terms of understanding what and how the SSO Service fits into the 5.1 puzzle, I found that it did add a couple of additional […] Read More
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