VMwareVCMSDS - A time for change
As of vCenter 4.0 when installing a new instance of vCenter, in order to allow for Linked Mode, an instance of Microsoft ADAM is installed on Windows 2003 or AD LDS on Windows 2008. The reason for …
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Subscribe via RSS →The case of the my SSL cert – RTFM!!!!!
It took me a while to understand why this was not working - it could be because I hate - actually loath -having to dig through logs because of Java and Tomcat issues, but I only have my self to blame …
ESX Disconnecting from vCenter
I got a call today from a colleague that had an issue with an ESX Server that was behind a firewall that kept on disconnecting every 30 seconds, and he could not understand why. I remember that I had …
Assigning Permissions – PowerCLI
Have you ever been asked to assign permissions to a VM/Folder/Resource? Come on, own up! Of course you have. Ever done it with the GUI? I guess the answer is the same. So GUI is pretty easy: Find …
Deep Security 7 - Trend Micro & VMsafe
Trend Micro have now joined Altor Networks and Reflex Systems with their new offering that utilizes VMware’s VMsafe technology. I expect we will be seeing more and more of the Security Companies …
My Journey to vSphere - The Beginning
My policy is not to update to new releases until they have stabilized for a decent period of time. Therefore, we have not yet performed our upgrade to Version 4.0 yet. We were waiting for the release …
Testing Network Failover with PowerCLI
Two weeks ago I wrote an article about How To Bring Down A Single NIC In ESX?. In that post you could see that in order to test this you had to go into the console of the ESX and run the commands on …
Disconnected ESX Host
Got a call today. Panic!!!! All VM on an ESX host just went grey – all disconnected. Trouble shooting steps: Ping ESX host Service Console – All ok Look in the VI client what is with the server – NOT …
Is today the day for Update 1??
No official sources, but a small bit of detective work. I hate rumors, but it has already started on Twitter. What a day! View 4 and vSphere update 1 tomorrow! — Barry Coombs (The Doodle Guy) …
The release that was (NOT!)
Ok so the detective work was not 100% correct. If it was not for unforeseen circumstances then we should have had a release today So why was there no release? The only thing I found was from Andre …