3 days till VMworld Europe 2014

Barcelona here I come (again)...... bit gutted that the weather looks like it will be as wet as London! =( My schedule is pretty packed yet again, with lots of sessions on VVOLs and EVO: Rail....! The only thing left is work out what clothes to pack, and also work out which vendor parties to … Continue reading 3 days till VMworld Europe 2014

Update to Shellshock Vulnerability within VMware

New update to the VMware Security Advisory: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0010.html There are now patches available to the affected ESX hypervisors (note ESXi is not affected). There are also remediation options for a lot of the vApps...... Please ensure you update your environment as soon as you can.

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

Project MARVIN morphs into VMware EVO: RAIL – VMworld updates

EVO: RAIL?? Really…. Ok, someone really needs to fire the marketing guys!! =PVMware EVO: RAIL announced.In a nutshell, VMware and ‘a-n-other’ partner to produce a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance.As I previously mentioned VMware are NOT going to start manufacturing and shifting tin!So far the partners listed are Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Inspur, Net One and Supermicro – these … Continue reading Project MARVIN morphs into VMware EVO: RAIL – VMworld updates

VMworld 2014 – what I’d like to see…….

So with VMworld 2014 kicking off in the US this weekend, I thought it fitting to blog about what I would love to hear coming out of San Francisco.VMware have always been tight-lipped regarding what they will be announcing! However, there’s always just enough that can be found online to allow you to make an educated … Continue reading VMworld 2014 – what I’d like to see…….

What Next for Virtualisation in Midmarket Companies

So I was asked a while back to write a short article for my company's blog page and the newspaper that they send out to customers (MTI Times)..... Point your browsers to: http://www.mtibytes.com/post/What-next-for-Virtualisation-in-midmarket-companies

Has your root password for your vCenter Server Appliance expired? No problems, check out this KB!!

So it slipped my mind that the root/admin passwords for the vCenter Server Appliance expires after 90 days by default..... and when I tried to access the admin webpage today in my demo environment so that I could update the appliance, I couldn't log in...... dammit.....!Surprisingly this must be a really common issue with customers … Continue reading Has your root password for your vCenter Server Appliance expired? No problems, check out this KB!!