For those of you that have installed vSphere 5.1 and tried to use your own trusted SSL certificates, you will probably find the experience extremely tedious, cumbersome, error prone, and vastly harder than any product you've used before. Now out is the VMware vCenter Certificate Automation tool v1.0, to make...
Today VMware announced their first stab at helping customers manage the SSL certificate replacement challenge that we face with vSphere 5.1: VMware vCenter Certificate Automation Tool v1.0. For anyone that has followed my 15-part series on vSphere 5.1 installation, you will know the certificate portions are quite a challenge and a source of...
For a number of years vSphere-Land has a vote drive for the top VMware Virtualization blogs. After some nail biting for the last week, the results are finally in! And to my surprise and delight I was voted into the Top 25 Virtualization Bloggers for 2013, at number 24. I...
As a quick recap of this series we are installing VMware Horizon View 5.2 for a small pilot of a Windows 8 VDI desktop. In Part 1 we installed the Connection Server, in Part 2 we configured an SSL certificate, and in Part 3Â we performed some basic Connection Server configuration....
New Cisco UCS firmware has now released! Their long anticipated first patch release of the 2.1 firmware, 2.1(1b) is out and you can download it today. Version 2.1, released in November of 2012, adds a number of great new features including the ability to rename service profiles. Since 2.1 added...
Welcome to the third part in the series for installing and configuring VMware Horizon View 5.2. In Part 1 and Part 2 we performed a basic install of the VMware Horizon View connection server role and setup a trusted SSL certificate. In this installment we will do some basic configuration of...
This is the second part in a blog series of how to install and configure VMware Horizon View 5.2. In Part 1 we did the basic connection server install, and installed Adobe Flash player. Next up is configuring a trusted SSL certificate for VMware Horizon View. There are a number...
In case you missed it, VMware has recently GA'd their Horizon Suite of software. This is a re-branding and expansion of the end user computing portfolio, which includes View, their VDI solution. You can see my blog post for the full announcement here. This series will cover the VMware Horizon View 5.2...
Today VMware released their Horizon Suite 1.0. What is Horizon Suite? Basically its a re-branding of their View product, with additions to the suite via some acquisitions over the last couple of years. Major components in the Horizon Suite include: Horizon Workspace 1.0 Horizon Mirage Horizon View 5.2 As seems...
new VMware Cisco UCS Drivers for vSphere 5.x are now out for the fnic and enic drivers. The fnic and enic drivers are for the Cisco VIC cards, which come in a few different flavors. These are the most common FCoE cards used in the UCS blades. They are now at...
For those of you trying to install and maintain vSphere 5.1, you probably will run into some vCenter SSO issues at one point or another. One of the big problems with SSO not using the very friendly Microsoft ODBC connector, is post-install reconfiguration of database parameters. The JDBC database interface...
For a few years now vSphere-land.com has been holding a poll for voting for the top virtualization blogs. Of course rock stars like Duncan and Frank get very high rankings, as they should. The sheer number of Virtualization blogs out there is really amazing. This year my blog made it...