Managing certificates is not the easiest job, especially when new versions of vSphere comes with more and more features which needs certificates. VMware try to make this as much painless as possible and released a tool which helps upload and manage certificates. The vCenter Certificate Automation Tool aims to automate the process of uploading certificates and restarting the following components within the vCenter Platform: vCenter Server...

My favourite free tool, RVTools in version 3.5 is available for download. What’s new: On vInfo tabpage new field: Resource pool On vInfo tabpage new field: Consolidation needed. On vCPU tabpage new field: Number of cores per socket New tabpage with resource pool information On vNetwork tabpage new column: Switch name On vNetwork tabpage new column: Starts Connected On vTools tabpage new column: required version On vHost tabpage new...

If you want quick and easy way to build bootable USB key with vSphere 5.1 ESXi version under Windows 7 or any other Windows flavor   Linux Live USB creator is the tool which you are looking for. Easy to use and fast. All credits goes to Wojtek  http://wojcieh.net/ If you are Linux user follow official VMware documentation.  ...

Yesterday, on twitter, I notice one RT about new plugin for ESXi which allows to execute remotely shell commands on ESXi 5.X hosts. I looked closer at Andreas blog post and it is an awesome tool. Many organizations have tight security rules where SSH is forbidden, this is problematic in situation where specific host setting has to be changed or updated from shell console commands. Until yesterday the only way to do it was either temporary...

This tool is definitely worth to mention, thanks to VMware labs we have possibility to make vCenter server inventory snapshot, awesome isn’t it ? You can create snapshot of particular DC, cluster or even a single VM, if you want. Watch video at the bottom of this post to discover all features. There are several use cases such as: Backup and restore of vCenter inventory Migration of vCenter server to new server How does it work ?...

I mentioned this many times but I will repeat one more time that RVTools is one of my favorite tools. If you don’t have it yet, download it and use it, I’m sure you will find very useful. Release Notes: Overall performance improvements and better end user experience VI SDK reference changed from 4.0 to 5.0 Added reference to Log4net (Apache Logging Framework) for debugging purpose Fixed a SSO problem CSV export trailing...