VMware SRM SSL Certificate Problems After Applying Microsoft Security Patch
Microsoft recently issued a security advisory and a patch that blocks any certificates with a key length less than 1024 bits. This has impacted a wide variety of systems including VMware Site Recovery...
View ArticleInstalling Corporate CA Certificates on iPhone or iPad for Use with VMware View
I was upgrading my VMware View environment recently from 5.0 to 5.1 and wrote about some initial problems in my article Trouble Recomposing View 5.x Desktops After Upgrade to vSphere 5.0 U2. After I...
View ArticleAutomating vSphere SSL Cert Management – vCert Manager Beta Demo
Want to be able to change the SSL Certificates on your vCenter Servers and vSphere Hosts to properly signed CA certificates at the click of a button? Want to be able to automatically apply certificates...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide Official Release
One of the most important documents for any vSphere administrator or architect has been released. The vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide is now available. The guide was announced on the vSphere Blog by Mike...
View ArticleVSS Labs To Showcase Latest VMware Automation Solutions At VMworld USA 2013
VSS Labs will be showcasing its latest offerings at the New Innovator Pavilion at Booth 2035 at VMworld USA 2013. The two offerings include it’s globally successful and VMware exclusive Cloud Migration...
View ArticleThe Trouble With SSL Certificates and Upgrading to VMware SSO 5.5
If you’re upgrading from vSphere 5.1 to vSphere 5.5 and you ARE NOT using Custom CA SSL Certificates then you might run into an error. The error will be encountered during the upgrade of SSO, and...
View ArticleLong White Clouds 2013 Year End Review
Another year has flown by, and what a year it was, and now we’re in a new year and I’m a year older and hopefully a little wiser, we never learn less. The great thing about being in the IT industry and...
View ArticleNutanix Disruption as a Service Serves Up VDI Assurance World First
I normally bring you information about business critical apps such as Oracle, SAP, Java, SQL Server and the like, and the infrastructure configurations and performance that support them. But if you...
View ArticlevSphere 6: Using VMCA as a Subordinate CA
vSphere 6 includes a new certificate authority that issues certificates for all of the different components within your environment to ensure communications are secure. If you want to use VMCA as a...
View ArticleNutanix STIG’s for Automated Security and Compliance
Security is in our DNA at Nutanix. A significant proportion of our business is from sectors of industry that care deeply about security, including Federal Government, State Government, Local...
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