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Virtual Infrastructure Navigator breaks when vCenter SSL Cert Changed
Like a lot of people I was quick to download and implement VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5 Enterprise when it became available. One of the great tools that is included in the suite is Virtual...
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Changing vCenter Heartbeat to CA SSL Certificates
In a previous post, The Trouble with CA SSL Certificates and vCenter 5, I reported that there isn’t a supported way to change out the self-signed SSL certificates that vCenter Heartbeat uses to...
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Updating CA SSL Certificates in vSphere 5
Many of you will have read my articles regarding changing SSL certificates in vSphere 5 components for custom CA SSL certificates. My motivation for writing them was I felt there was little good...
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Why change VMware default self-signed SSL certs?
I’ve written a few articles now on how to change the self-signed SSL certs in a few of the VMware components, such as vCenter Server 5, vSphere Web Client, and ESXi 5 Hosts. All without any discussion...
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Best Order for Changing SSL Certs in vSphere Environments
During the process of working with customers changing their SSL default self-signed certs for CA signed SSL certs in their vSphere environments I found that the order they were changed made a...
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Common Mistakes Implementing CA Signed SSL Certs in vSphere
Changing SSL Certificates in vSphere environments can be difficult and error prone. But when I come across a problem where a customer is not able to successfully update their certs it’s generally down...
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Updating SSL Certificate in vShield Manager Made Easy
I was contacted recently by Maish Saidel-Keesing (@maishsk), who is a vExpert, fellow tweeter and top 50 virtualization blogger at technodrone.blogspot.com asking if I had updated the SSL Certs in...
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vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide – Public Draft
The vSphere 5 Security Guide has been released publicly in draft form for comment. There are a number of changes and enhancements and you should go through each to review the applicability to your...
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vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide – Final Official Release
The vSphere 5 Security Guide has been officially released. There are a number of changes and enhancements and you should go through each to review the applicability to your environment and compare it...
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vCert Manager – Changing VMware SSL Certs Made Easy
During my VMworld session presentation INF-SEC1282 Automating Security and Compliance with DR (VMworld account required to access recording) I gave a world premier glimpse of a prototype solution that...
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vSphere 5.1 Generally Available – Important Upgrade Considerations
vSphere 5.1 was greatly anticipated by all of the VMware Customers that watched the VMworld keynote address and attended the early VMworld sessions and today it became generally available for download...
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VMworld US 2012 and vSphere 5.1 Launch Roundup – My First VMworld
The twitter wires and blogosphere were ablaze with news out of VMworld US 2012 (August 27 – 30th). This was my first ever VMworld (with hopefully many more to come), and I greatly enjoyed it and I also...
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Updating CA SSL Certificates in vSphere 5.1
Over the past few weeks I have been working behind the scenes with a team of people at VMware spread around the globe on the process to successfully change out the self-signed certificates in vSphere...
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Updating CA SSL Certificates in vSphere 5.1 vCenter Virtual Appliance
Recently I wrote about Updating CA SSL Certificates in vSphere 5.1 which applied to the Windows installable version of the vCenter 5.1 and it’s supporting components including SSO. VMware has now also...
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VMware SRM SSL Certificate Problems After Applying Microsoft Security Patch
Microsoft recently issued a security advisory and a patch that blocks any certificates with a key length less than 1024 bits. This has impacted a wide variety of systems including VMware Site Recovery...
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Installing Corporate CA Certificates on iPhone or iPad for Use with VMware View
I was upgrading my VMware View environment recently from 5.0 to 5.1 and wrote about some initial problems in my article Trouble Recomposing View 5.x Desktops After Upgrade to vSphere 5.0 U2. After I...
View ArticleAutomating vSphere SSL Cert Management – vCert Manager Beta Demo
Want to be able to change the SSL Certificates on your vCenter Servers and vSphere Hosts to properly signed CA certificates at the click of a button? Want to be able to automatically apply certificates...
View ArticleDisabling vSphere 5.1 Single Sign-on (SSO) – Don’t do it!
I’ve been getting feedback and questions from a number of different places of people wanting to disable Single Sign-on in vSphere 5.1 for various reasons (with vCenter). This is mainly due to...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide Official Release
One of the most important documents for any vSphere administrator or architect has been released. The vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide is now available. The guide was announced on the vSphere Blog by Mike...
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HP Discover 2013 Las Vegas Wrap Up
This week I’m brining you this article from my hotel in Shanghai, I’m in China to present Unix to VMware Migration workshops. Last week I made the treck to Las Vegas like around another 12,000 people...
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