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….
By default vSphere uses an SSL certificate from VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA). If accessed through a browser, the https access will be considered untrusted. If you have the trusted SSL certificate (commercial) for your domain name, you can install it to replace the default SSL provided by VMCA. Following is the process to install the…
After several revisions, the 2019 edition of VMware vSphere ebook was officially launched. This 2019 edition ebook contains several additions to the content related to vSphere Update Manager, Content Library, vSphere Networking (vSphere Distributed Switch), SSL implementation on both hosts and vCenter and update for existing contents. In print conditions, this ebook has 318 pages….
Last Friday I received a package containing the Intel NUC Hades Canyon series NUC817HVK VR Edition. This is one of the Intel NUC series with a qualified specification suitable for virtualization server, especially for VMware vSphere and Proxmox. With an Intel Core i7-8809G and Radeon VGA, I bought 32 GB RAM (VGEN 16 GB SODIMM…
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…
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…