VAMI certificate not updated after certificate change
Super quick post today about certificates.. It seems to be a unbreakable law of the universe that when doing certificate stuff, it is impossible that everything works the first time. After replacing...
View Article2020 LDAP channel binding and LDAP signing requirement for Windows
In summer 2019 Microsoft announced an update scheduled for January 2020 that would change the default behavior of domain controllers with regards to the security of LDAP communications. After this...
View ArticleHow to sign a certificate with no template information on a Microsoft CA
If you have a basic Microsoft CA for lab or production purpose you cannot sign a certificate without a template. However the certificate manager utility included in vCenter or OpenSSL creates CSR file...
View ArticleChange vmnic order on vSphere host
Changing the vmnic order is an unusual thing to do and you may rightfully wonder why one would want to do that. Heterogeneous enironments are fully supported but most vSphere administrators aim to...
View ArticleHost randomly not responding but replies to ping
In the series of weird and annoying technical issues that I seem to be blessed with, today I bring you one that falls in the category I despise the most, random disconnects. TL,DR: Random ESXi...
View ArticleEnabling LDAPS on vCenter identity source
Most environments used to use the Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) as an identity source for vCenter. However with Microsoft tightening the screw on LDAP signing and VMware deprecating IWA in...
View ArticleVMworld 2020 announcements
Discover the major announcements of VMworld 2020 - This year’s VMworld is like no other before due to the current situation. Everything is accessible on the virtual platform provided you registered...
View ArticlevSphere 7.0 and the memory greed
As I was fooling around with esxcli in my lab I decided to upgrade a 6.7u3 host to 7.0u1. Note that it is a simple vSphere host in workstation to which I allocated a mere 4GB of RAM because I only...
View ArticlePerennially reserved disks in the vSphere client UI
In 2018 I wrote a blog for Vembu about how LUNs used as RDMs by Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) can significantly slow down the boot time of your vSphere hosts. This is due to the active node...
View ArticlePerennially reserved disks in the vSphere client UI
In 2018 I wrote a blog for Vembu about how LUNs used as RDMs by Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) can significantly slow down the boot time of your vSphere hosts. This is due to the active node...
View ArticleHow to reset the password of auto-generated vCenter service accounts on Windows
I stumbled upon this VMTN post while troubleshooting an issue on a vCenter, credit to these guys. Even though it didn’t solve my problem, I found it interesting and learned something in the process....
View ArticlevSphere 7 clustered VMDK - RDM-free WSFC !
Background The end of the raw device mapping tyrannie on Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFC) is nigh! If you managed virtual environments that contain Windows Clusters, you probably know that...
View ArticleHow to fix VAMI stuck on "Update installation in progress"
If you ever get in a situation where an update of the vCenter Server Appliance is interrupted for any reason, you may get an error message “Update installation in progress” and find that you are...
View ArticlevCenter 7 update 1c: Advanced Cross vCenter vMotion (XVM)
Migrating virtual machines across vCenter instances has been a thing for several years now but it wasn’t a straightforward process at first. After a while the Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility...
View ArticleHow to update to vSphere 7.0 Update 2
- VMware recently released vSphere 7.0 Update 2. It delivers a number of really interesting features and improvements in terms of performance and vSphere LifeCycle management. Among the main features...
View ArticleHow to use PostgreSQL database for Horizon 8 (2103) events
- VMware released Horizon 8 (2103) on the 23rd of March 2021. While previous versions only allowed Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle for the events database, this latest version introduces support for...
View ArticleHow to install VMware Tools on FreeBSD (OpnSense)
- Recently I needed subnets in my nested lab to discover VMware Tanzu. I chose OpnSense, a pretty recent fork of PFSense based on FreeBSD that seems to be popular. I installed the VMware Tools like I...
View ArticleHow to download and install Windows Server 2022
- In a world where security is increasingly important along with the adoption of hybrid cloud options, Microsoft recently released Windows server 2022 which builds on these industry requirements to...
View ArticleInteracting with containerd runtime for kubernetes
- EDIT on terminology: In this blog I talk a lot about Container Runtime. In this context I should really be talking about Container Manager to be more accurate with the proper terminology. Refer to...
View ArticleNakivo Backup and Replication for VMware and more
- Today we are going to have a look at Nakivo Backup and Replication, an all-in-one product that will let you backup, restore and replicate virtual machines in your VMware environment. The product...
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