In the previous article, I discussed the installation and activation of the SSL certificate on vSphere host 6.7. The process is relatively easy. The same thing I tried to apply to vCenter 6.7 but failed. After several trial & error processes, the problem is most likely because vCenter does not want to use SSL wildcards….
What is VMware vCenter Server Appliance? Prior to vSphere 5.0, we can only run vCenter on Windows Server, either on physical or virtual machine (VM ). Since vSphere 5.1, VMware provide an option to run vCenter in the form of VM appliance. vCenter Server Appliance ( vCSA ) is a package system based on SUSE…
One of the commons SysAdmin job is perform server management. VMware vSphere management server can actually be done remotely using the vSphere Client access (based on Windows) , Web Client or can also use 3rd party mobile applications . Along with the development of technology, remote server management via mobile devices such as gadgets or…
One of the commons SysAdmin job is perform server management. VMware vSphere management server can actually be done remotely using the vSphere Client access (based on Windows) , Web Client or can also use 3rd party mobile applications . Along with the development of technology, remote server management via mobile devices such as gadgets or…
In the previous article, I wrote an article about how to create a user account on vCenter Server Appliances (vCSA). This method will be very beneficial for us if we do not have an Active Directory (AD) server for user account back end, so we could directly use Linux user account which exists on vCSA….
As an alternative to installing vCenter Server on a Windows machine, since vSphere 5.0, Vmware provide VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). The vCenter Server Appliance is a preconfigured Linux-based virtual machine optimized for running vCenter Server and associated services. On stand alone vSphere host, we can use vSphere client directly to connect to the vSphere…
While accessing VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA), sometimes we find the error message ” Failed to connect to VMware Lookup Service https://vcenterhost:7444/lookupservice/sdk – SSL certificate verification failed” . If this message occurs , we can not log into vCSA . This message usually occurs when we change the IP or hostname of the vCenter without…
VMware vSphere 5.5 has been released on November 2013 and contains some improvement compared to previous version . If you wish to try to implement VMware vSphere version 5.5, these are some precautions especially for vSphere free edition. vSphere Client Version Windows vSphere Client version 5.5 cannot be installed on Windows XP or Windows 2003…