Posts tagged "vmware-2"

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NetApp releases Virtual Storage Console 4.0

Mar 16, 2012

NetApp has released the latest version of its vCenter plug-in which ties together VM and storage management all within the vSphere Client. The update includes far more capability for Cluster Mode and interestingly online alignment of VMs. The Monitoring and Host Configuration capability adds support for the following: The Provisioning and Cloning capability enables you to perform the following...

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vSphere 5 Certificates: 4 - Replacing the default vCenter 5 Server Certificate

Feb 28, 2012

This is part 4 of a 7 part post on managing vSphere 5 Certificates: 1. ( 2. ( 3. ( 4. ( 5. ( 6. ( 7. ( vCenter Server actually has three different components which need their certificates updated, ( ( and ( Initially I had only written the vCenter Server certificate steps but luckily ( (VCDX #66) keeps me on my toes and I've now added parts for the other two components. You should have now ( fi...

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vSphere 5 Certificates: 5 - Replacing the default vCenter 5 Web Client Server Certificate

Feb 28, 2012

This is part 5 of a 7 part post on managing vSphere 5 Certificates: 1. ( 2. ( 3. ( 4. ( 5. ( 6. ( 7. ( vCenter Server actually has three different components which need their certificates updated, ( ( and ( Initially I had only written the vCenter Server certificate steps but luckily ( (VCDX #66) keeps me on my toes and I've now added parts for the other two components. You should have now ( fi...

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vSphere 5 Certificates: 6 - Replacing the default vCenter 5 Inventory Service Certificate

Feb 28, 2012

This is part 6 of a 7 part post on managing vSphere 5 Certificates: 1. ( 2. ( 3. ( 4. ( 5. ( 6. ( 7. ( vCenter Server actually has three different components which need their certificates updated, ( ( and ( Initially I had only written the vCenter Server certificate steps but luckily ( (VCDX #66) keeps me on my toes and I've now added parts for the other two components. You should have now ( fi...

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WOW, thanks to the VMware community and London VMUG!!

Feb 14, 2012

Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend the London VMware User Group meeting on the 26th January, the first I've missed in a quite a while but hopefully I had a good enough ( However, I was surprised and extremely honoured to hear I had been awarded ( award for one of my presentations during the year, ( at the first ever UK VMware User Group. This was a combined meeting of the London, Northern an...

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Vote TODAY to keep independent blogging alive!

Feb 6, 2012

( who blogs at ( is well known for putting together the ( list of all virtualisation blogs he is aware of and has very kindly included me in the list. Eric also runs an election to get the virtualisation community to vote for the Top 25 blogs and getting your blog voted onto this list is a serious boost to your credentials in the virtualisation community and it is currently election time! Today...

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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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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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