You find yourself sitting at your desk on a Saturday morning waiting for the cloning of a VM to finish. It seems to take forever and I just wished I could run VSAN in my homelab to get some more speed out of my kit. I have tried to run VSAN on my home mode […]
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Can’t establish connection to the server at 7331
When trying to open the console of a VM using the vSphere Webclient with the VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5, I received the following error: “can’t establish a connection to the server at vcsa.vanzanten.local: 7331”. It took me some searching through the VMware KB and finally found it. I’m posting it here merely for my […]
Installation vCenter Inventory Service hangs forever
Recently I was installing an additional VMware vCenter Server in an environment in which I had replaced all default certificates with official CA certificates and ran into an issue where installation of the VMware vCenter Inventory Service kept hanging when communicating with the VMware SSO server. In the installation wizard of VMware vCenter Inventory Service […]
Be carefull with VMware SSO Master password bug
This week I installed a fresh vSphere 5.1 Update 1 environment and I wanted to configure it will real world certificates to get rid of all those “Do you really really reeeeeally accept this insecure website” messages. Using the VMware SSL Certificate Automation Tool I generated all the new certificates and then started changing the certificate […]
The Doctor is: IN
Many of us in IT read a lot of whitepapers, blogposts, how-to articles and view numerous Podcasts or training video’s to learn all the details about new products or features. Still, I don’t always get some of the details or can’t find the info I need. Meeting people at VMUGs or VMworld gives me the […]