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...

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Finally VMware realized that ESXi is not the only one bear metal hypervisor on the Earth and couple days ago VMware informed about public BETA test for upcoming  VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1  – sign up for it !! In a MHM 1.1 version Hyper-V on Windows 2012 is supported that’s why is worth to look at it. Wondering if VMware has in plans extend support for KVM, would be nice. What’s new Migration of virtual...

I had to rebuild my homelab storage “infrastructure” and this is a good opportunity to create quick how deploy and configure OpenFiler virtual appliance. OpenFiler is a OpenSource storage appliance (iSCSI and NFS) which is very easy to set up and fit perfectly into home or test labs. It emulates NFS v3 protocol and iSCSI protocol, as you know both are supported by VMware vSphere. Download...

Thanks to one of my blog readers, Keino-Paul from NYC, I have an opportunity to share with you tested hardware configuration for VMware vSphere 5.1 build 799733 which can be used as a pretty cheap HomeLaB config. Hardware specs: HP proliant microserver N40L 6GB RAM (max is 32GB, 2×16), 2 memory banks on motherboard. If you are interested in heaving 32GB these modules has been...