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...

In a first part I described how to create HomeLab in a Box based on Linux or Windows host OS and VMware Workstation. How to set up a Home LAB for vSpehre 4 and vSphere5 – part 1 In second part of my series, I will describe how to create a HomeLab in a box but running on ESXi 5.1 as host platform. The approach is to have stable, universal, low cost  platform on which one can build, test and develop various type of systems and...

One of the coolest features in vSphere 5.1 is enhanced vMotion. Enhanced vMotion is in fact combination of standard vMotion and storage vMotion in one process. Sounds good but someone can ask what’s the advantage ? Well, one can migrate live VM between ESXi hosts without shared storage. Is this cool or what ? Note: enhanced vMotion is available only in vSphere Web client, standard vSphere client does not support enhanced vMotion...

How to enable vSphere replication. One can enable it only in vSphere Web Client. Requirements: vSphere 5.1 suite deployed and configured vSphere 5.1 replication appliance Steps: Log in to vSphere Web client From right click menu choose – Configure replication Choose target site, one can add remote site as a target or local site – where replicated machine run Specify target datastore for replicated virtual machine files and...

For a last few weeks I’ve looked around for good knowledge source about vCenter Operations Manager – vCOPS. As Trainsignal is my favorite  independent video course provider I checked their course base. vCOPS fortunately is on the list. As I have good experience with TrainSignal courses soon I will order it. What is vCOPS: VMware vCenter Operations Manager is the key component of the vCenter Operations Management Suite. It...

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 ?...