Shellshock Vulnerability

So last week it was reported that a serious vulnerability was discovered in Bash (Bourne-Again SHell) which is pretty much core to a lot of Linux/Unix OSes - including Apple's MacOS. The bug, dubbed Shellshock, is supposed to be more serious than the previous OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability that was discovered earlier this year. It allows … Continue reading Shellshock Vulnerability

Upgrading to SRM 5.8 and vSphere Replication Appliance 5.8

There were new versions released earlier this month for a number of VMware products, and one of the things I like to do is keep my demo environment up to date! =) Upon upgrading SRM from 5.5 to 5.8 and vRA from 5.5 to 5.8 (I'm using vSphere replication with SRM in my demo environment), I noticed … Continue reading Upgrading to SRM 5.8 and vSphere Replication Appliance 5.8

vSphere and vCenter Server 5.5 update 2 released

.... so instead of giving us all vSphere/vCenter Server 6.0, we're treated to another update of 5.5...... =( https://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsphere-vcenter-server-55u2-release-notes.html https://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsphere-esxi-55u2-release-notes.html Anyways, the new update now supports hosts with up to 6TB of RAM.... yes, that's 6 terabytes!!! (I'll be interested to find out if any of my clients will take advantage of this!!) vCenter Server … Continue reading vSphere and vCenter Server 5.5 update 2 released

vCenter Operations Manager – SSL Certificate issues

So during a recent deployment of vCenter Operations Manager (5.8.2) at a customer site I encountered the following error whilst trying to pair the vCOPs vApp to their vCenter Server."Unable to get vCenter Server certificate chain"This was the first time I had encountered this issue deploying vCOPs, fortunately given how much exposure I got to … Continue reading vCenter Operations Manager – SSL Certificate issues