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 […]
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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 […]
vCenter SSO changes when demoting domain controller
I’m still getting used to the important part vCenter SSO (Single Sign-On) is playing in vSphere 5.1. In my home lab I was switching domain controllers from W2k8 to Windows 2012. Transferred FSMO roles, integrated DNS, changed IP addresses for DNS on all servers and all seemed fine. My w2k8-dom01 server was demoted and removed. […]
Adding AD authentication to VMware SSO 5.1
With the release of VMware vCenter Server 5.1 an important new component has been released: the VMware Single Sign-On (SSO) server. It is one of the components of vCenter Server and is a requirement for installation. Through the SSO server a user now gets authenticated and receives a token that authenticates the user with other […]
CloudPhysics for your permanent health check
A few weeks ago I first saw some mention of CloudPhysics by Duncan on Yellow-Bricks. Duncan’s blogpost describes pretty well what CloudPhysics does (so read it), but in short: CloudPhysics will collect data from your vCenter, upload that data to the CloudPhysics servers and analyse that data and and give you insights and key take-aways. […]