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...
For those of you with HP ProLiant servers in your environment, you know that on a quarterly basis HP releases a new "HP Service Pack for ProLiant", which is a combo ISO of firmware, drivers, and tools for your ProLiant rackmount and blade servers. It's very important to keep firmware...
Welcome to a post which will let you easily update your VMware ESXi host SSL certificates. Last year when I was writing my 15-part vSphere 5.1 installation and configuration series I didn't include instructions on how to replace the ESXi SSL certificate. That process hasn't changed for ages, so I put it...
Windows Server 2012 generation ID is a great new feature that will allow use to safely virtualize a domain controller, on specific hypervisors. One of the really great features that hypervisors have had for ages is the ability to perform snapshots, then roll back to a prior state with a click...
In a virtual environment CPU scheduling is extremely important. You very likely will have more vCPUs than pCores, so the hypervisor has to play some "tricks" to fairly schedule VMs among the finite hardware resources. With each version of vSphere VMware has tuned and optimized CPU scheduler performance. VMware design goals...
One of the absolute best tools for managing security group policy settings in a Microsoft environment is their Security Compliance Manager. Hot off the presses is version 3.0, which is a major step forward in both functionality and OS/product support. The full product announcement from Microsoft is here. The most...
If anyone has been following the release of vSphere 5.1, you know it was not exactly a smooth launch. In fact, I would dare to call it a huge debacle. To me, it seems like it was rushed out the door without having components even beta tested, like the required...
For Windows Server 2016/2019 and Windows 10, see my new post: Trusted Remote Desktop Services SSL Certs for Win10/2019 For Windows environments that want extra security, one of the features that has been around for ages is requiring TLS 1.0 for Windows RDP (Remote Desktop) connections. This functionality requires a...
In case you missed my previous blog post, yesterday VMware released vSphere 5.0 Update 2, which fixes a plethora of bugs and plugs security holes. You can find my host here, with links to the release notes for all the gory details. Right on the heels of VMware releasing 5.0...