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 […]
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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 […]
Add Fusion IO driver to VMware Auto Deploy
A customer of mine, who was already running a vSphere environment on Cisco UCS blades, asked to expand his environment with a number of ESXi hosts that could run a VMware View environment. To be able to run as much View desktops on each host as possible, we offered them Cisco UCS Blades equipped with […]
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 […]
How to move VMware Single Sign On (SSO) database
Customer had all his VMware databases for vCenter Server, Update Manager, Single Sign On (SSO), vCloud Director and vCenter Chargeback running on one big SQL Server where they shared resources with other databases. They asked me to move the databases to a new MS SQL Server because the load of the VMware databases was more […]