Month: June 2014

VSS Labs vCert Manager Part 1

Last August I wrote a blog post about this great new VMware SSL tool by VSS Labs called vCert Manager, which replaces many of your VMware SSL certificates all from the comfort of a nice GUI. It's a full certificate lifecycle management tool for VMware vSphere and related components. For...

Nesting Hyper-V 2012 R2 on ESXi 5.5

Since joining Nutanix I've had the opportunity to get exposed to Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2, as our platform supports the three most common hypervisors: VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, and KVM. I'm now embarking on writing some Hyper-V guides for Nutanix, and wanted a way to leverage my existing ESXi 5.5 Nutanix...

vCenter 5.5 Update 1b Now Out

Earlier this year the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability came to light, and many products from many different vendors were affected. Heartbleed is a very serious vulnerability, and you should conduct a thorough audit to validate all of your software and hardware components are not affected. My bet is that many of...

vSphere 5.5 U1 NFS APD Fix out

A couple of months ago when upgrading one of my Nutanix clusters to vSphere 5.5 U1 I started to see what appeared to be random loss of connection to my NFS datastores. All VMs on the datastores would become inaccessible, then a few minutes later, access would be restored. As...