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VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite Released

Jan 25, 2012

( has been released today. This was the major announcement and focus of ( which was billed as ( To recap, the new vCenter Operations Management Suite is made up of two major components: The suite aspect means there is tight integration between the two components. There are workflows to analyse performance which span both components. The suite now also allows seamless upgrades between different...

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VMware PowerCLI 5.01 released adding vCloud Director Automation

Jan 10, 2012

VMware has released what at first looks like a minor update to their PowerShell snapin, ( Although just a .01 release which brings the usual changes and bug fixes which are listed ( the big news is that VMware has added a whole bunch of cmdlets for managing vCloud Director. A whole new snapin has been created called VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud and this initial release focuses more on the report...

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Installing & Maximising the NetApp ONTAP 8.1 Simulator

Jan 4, 2012

UPDATE 7 September 2012: ( which is a licensed functional VSA. One of the strengths of NetApp’s storage offering is that its controller operating system called ( is the same across every NetApp Filer storage product they sell. This is hugely significant as it means if you know how to administer and configure the smallest ( you are pretty much up to speed to administer and configure Filers up t...

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XenDesktop 5: Using Active Directory-Based Controller Discovery

Dec 14, 2011

VDI desktops in a XenDesktop environment need to be able to register with a controller or multiple controllers so they can be managed by the broker and allow connections by clients. In XenDesktop 4 the default was having the controller information held in an Active Directory OU. During installation you specified an AD OU and the controller installation added the AD objects to the OU so the Citr...

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vSphere 5 Certificates: 1 - Installing a Root Certificate Authority

Nov 30, 2011

Updated: 27 February 2012 to include vCenter 5 Web Client Server and vCenter 5 Inventory Service This is the first part of a 7 part post on vSphere 5 Certificates: 1. ( 2. ( 3. ( 4. ( 5. ( 6. ( 7. ( The posts will take you through building your own certificate trusting infrastructure and distributing the certificates, creating your own vCenter and Update Manager certificates which can also incl...

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vSphere 5 Certificates: 2 - Distributing the Root CA certificate to clients

Nov 30, 2011

This is part 2 of a 7 part post on managing vSphere 5 Certificates: 1. ( 2. ( 3. ( 4. ( 5. ( 6. ( 7. ( The posts will Once you have ( you may need to distribute the root certificate to clients. The root CA certificate needs to be in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities certificate store on all clients who need to access vCenter for the certificate trust chain to work. If you are not using...

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vSphere 5 Certificates: 3 - Creating the default vCenter 5 Server Certificate and including a DNS alias

Nov 30, 2011

This is part 3 of a 7 part post on managing vSphere 5 Certificates: 1. ( 2. ( 3. ( 4. ( 5. ( 6. ( 7. ( You should now have a ( so you can proceed with creating certificates for vCenter 5 which will be trusted by this root CA certificate. These steps will also allow you to create DNS aliases for your certificate if you need them so you can connect to your vCenter server using any of the aliases...

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vSphere 5 Certificates: 7 - Replacing the default Update Manager 5 Server Certificate

Nov 30, 2011

This is the final post of a 7 part post on managing vSphere 5 Certificates: 1. ( 2. ( 3. ( 4. ( 5. ( 6. ( 7. ( VMware Update Manager uses a different self-signed certificate to authenticate against vCenter Server which also needs to be replaced. You can use the same vCenter certificate if the Update Manager installation is on the same server as vCenter or create and trust a new certificate usin...

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HP Blade & Virtual Connect Firmware and Nic drivers for vSphere 5

Nov 23, 2011

One of the challenges with working with HP blades and HP Virtual Connect switches is ensuring all your software and firmware versions are in sync as unfortunately there have been many firmware incompatibility and reliability issues that have plagued the technology over the years and making sure you have firmware that works certainly helps with your sanity! I've been tracking the firmware requir...

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Upgrading vSphere from 4 to 5 - a UK VMUG presentation.

Nov 3, 2011

My presentation has nothing whatsoever to do with motorcycles unfortunately but is rather about upgrading your virtual infrastructure from vSphere 4 to 5. In hindsight I should have taken some more inspiration from the surroundings and somehow worked a motorcycle angle into my presentation, I should plan more carefully in the future! Upgrading to vSphere 5 doesn’t actually have to be a particul...

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