Year: 2013

vSphere 5.5 Install Pt. 19: ESXi SSL Certificate

After a bit of a delay, I'm finally publishing how to update your ESXi SSL certificate. The process is pretty much unchanged from the 4.x era, but what is new is my Toolkit script. It has been updated to include ESXi certificate support. This is accomplished all in PowerShell, and does...

vSphere 5.5 Install Pt. 18: VUM SSL & Misc. Config.

So now that vCenter 5.5 with VUM is installed, we need to configure a trusted vCenter update manager SSL certificate and then do a few VUM configuration tweaks. These tweaks include configuring HP and Dell repos, plus configuring basic VUM compliance scans. Blog Series SQL 2012 AlwaysOn Failover Cluster for...

vCenter 5.5 SSL Certificate and SQL Toolkit Updated

Fresh off the press is an updated version of my vCenter 5.5 SSL certificate Toolkit script. Last year when I did my popular vCenter 5.1 install series the posts contain a series of scripts and CLI commands to replace the SSL certificates. While that process worked for many people, it still...

vSphere 5.5 Install Pt. 17: Install VUM

So yes, after a couple of weeks of pausing on the vSphere 5.5 series I'm back with installing VUM. The VUM install pretty much follows the process we had for vCenter 5.1. In case you haven't heard, VUM is also growing feathers like the Windows VI client and will soon...

VMware Releases vCenter 5.5a

Following last year's pattern of 'lettered' vCenter updates, VMware has released vCenter 5.5a. (Note the 'a'.) This addresses a number of issues, mostly with the SSO service. If you are using vCenter on Windows Server 2012, you will no longer have to download a patched DLL. You can find the...

vSphere 5.5 Install Pt. 16: vCenter SSL

Now that vCenter is fully installed, now it's time to replace the self-signed certificate for the vCenter service and Orchestrator. Since we've already replaced the other certificates (SSO, Inventory, etc.) this process is a piece of cake. If you haven't been following this series to the letter and have all...

vSphere 5.5 Install Pt. 15: Install vCenter

The previous 14 installments have all been leading up to this, installing vCenter. Yes, we are finally here. In this post we install vCenter, the windows vSphere client, fix profile driven storage, and configure vCenter to support a clustered SQL database. This post is not the end of the road,...

vSphere 5.5 Install Pt. 14: Create Databases

We are just one post away from installing the actual vCenter service! Now that the rest of the infrastructure is ready, we need to create a service account, databases and DSNs. After all of these steps are completed we can rejoice and very shortly have a working vCenter server. Remember...

vSphere 5.5 Install Pt. 13: Install Inventory Svc

The vCenter inventory service has two primary purposes in life. First, it's a cache of objects which the web client accesses. This cache enables the offloading of retrieving objects from the vCenter core service (vpxd). This can also lessen the load on your back-end database if the vCenter service isn't...

vSphere 5.5 Install Pt. 12: Configure SSO

Now that the SSO service and web client are installed, it's time to do a little SSO configuration. In this installment we will configure the SSO STS certificate chain, add an Active Directory identity and source, and delegate SSO administrative rights to a AD group. If you recall the vCenter...

vSphere 5.5 Install Pt. 11: Install Web Client

The web client is the new and strongly preferred mechanism to manage your vSphere environment. In fact, the Windows VI client now comes up with a big warning that it's going the way of the dodo bird when you launch it. I suspect in vSphere 6.0 the Windows VI client...

vSphere 5.5 Install Pt. 10: Replace SSO Certs

Just like replacing a hip joint, replacing vCenter SSO SSL certificates can induce some pain, is a bit complex, and the outcome can be questionable. The replacement process in SSO 5.5 is pretty much like that in 5.1, but now we have the VMware certificate automation tool and my vCenter...

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