Month: November 2009

VMware vCenter 4.0 Update Manager SSL Certificates

You can check out the improved, and officially supported method here. This works for vCenter 4.0 and 4.1. -- After a significant effort of research and trial and error, it appears I have gotten VMware Update Manager (VUM) 4.0 Update 1 to use SSL certificates generated from an internal Microsoft...

vSphere ESXi SSL mystery solved

For quite a while I've been trying to get SSL certificates uploaded to an ESXi 4.0 host which were issued by our internal Microsoft CA. Unfortunately I ran into issues, the last being that adding an ESXi 4.0 host to vCenter 4.0 with the certificate would die at 80%.After additional...

OpenSSL Certificate Verification – for VMware

During my process of testing the SSL functionality in vSPhere 4.0 ESXi Update 1, I found a helpful set of OpenSSL commands. OpenSSL is used to generate the certificate signing request (CSR), which is then submitted to a CA which in turns provides you a certificate you can install on...

VMware vSphere 4.0 Update 1 released

The much anticipated first update for VMware vSphere 4.0 is upon us. I've been awaiting this update with eager anticipation since we've uncovered some issues with 4.0 in our deployment. If you want to read the release notes for update 1, you can check them out here.If you have already...

Office 2010 Beta Downloads now available!

For all of you TechNet or MSDN subscribers, the latest beta of Office 2010 is now available for download. Just sign in to your TechNet/MSDN account and download! Remember, Office 2010 now comes in native 64-bit support, as well as legacy 32-bit versions. I've been running the pre-beta since the...

More 3PAR Enhancements

A couple of days ago 3PAR made more announcements about their added features in the upcoming major release of their InServe operating system for their enterprise fibre channel and iSCSI storage arrays. If you missed their previous announcements, click on 3PAR on the right side of my blog for the...