In Part 1 of this two part VMware VCDX journey series I accounted for the first 120 days of my VCP5 to VCDX #125 journey. This post will cover the final 60 days, which were just as important, if not more so, than the first 120. In my last post we...
This is Part 1 of my tale of the last 180 days of my life, my adventure from VCP5 to becoming ...drum roll... VMware VCDX #125. Yes, I successfully defended my design at VMware PEX 2014 in San Francisco this past week, which was for VCDX5-Datacenter Virtualization (DCV)! It was a fun, educational, and...
Now that vSphere 5.5 has been out for a few months, if you haven't already started working with it in your test environment, you should! A lot of great new features, and major improvements to the SSO experience. However, you still may find it a bit challenging to secure vCenter...
Yes, time to update my vSphere 5.5 Toolkit with a few more features and bug fixes. For those of you that need to replace your vSphere 5.5 SSL certificates, the process can be somewhat cumbersome and time consuming. While VMware has a tool to help you replace the certificates once...
Now that we have our Windows Server 2012 R2Â certificate authority configured in Part 1, and our subordinate setup in Part 2, now we should setup autoenrollment and secure the subordinate's web certificate services with SSL. Autoenrollment is where domain joined Windows computers are automatically issued a computer certificate. Services such...
Now that our root Windows Server 2012 R2 certificate authority is installed and published to Active Directory from Part 1, it is time to bring online our subordinate CA. The subordinate CA will be our online issuing CA, since it will be the CA which issues all certificates, be they for users,...
While I have written a number of articles focused on SSL certificates and templates, I have not done a mini-series on how to actually install a Windows Certificate Authority. For this series I'm using Windows Server 2012 R2, but the steps are pretty much identical for Windows Server 2012. Microsoft...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...