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vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide Released

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New vSphere hardening guide has been released. The news came by from vSphere Security Blog here. The vSphere Hardening guide present itself as an excel spreadsheet, where the different components of vSphere 5.1 are laid on separate worksheet. You have the possibility to consult different ways to restrict (harden) access to different components of vSphere and protect your installation […]

vCenter Operations Manager 5.7 – what’s new?

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vCenter Operations Manager 5.7 has been released few days ago. vCOPS 5.7 provides performance, capacity and configuration management for VMware vSphere. It’s a standalone product, which is also distributed as bundle with VMware vSphere. VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.7 is preconfigured as a virtual appliance (VM) and it’s available in three editions: Standard Advanced Enterprise What’s […]

VCAP-CIA – vCloud VCAP exam available

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For those of you who start thinking about VCAP-CIA exam, which is an exam on vCloud Director – at the Datacenter Advanced Professional level. This exam is now available through VMware Education. When passing this exam, you’ll automatically become VCP-Cloud certified. VCAP-CIA stands for VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Cloud Infrastructure administration. There is a requirements […]

How to find inactive computer accounts in Active Directory

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From time to time you might need to clean up the Active Directory from computer accounts which are no longer active. Computers that has been reinstalled, replaced with new ones, old VMs. In many of those case you’ll might just end up with active directory full of computer objects that are obsolete. In fact those […]

Windows Server 2012 Core or GUI – Some Tips

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Windows Server 2012 Core or GUI? It depends of the usage scenarios and possibilities, because not all the roles works in the core version and not everyone like working with the Core only system. Windows Server 2012 when installed as a core (default option), has not only smaller footprint, but also needs less patching. For […]

vCenter Certificate Automation Tool 1.0

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Update: You might want to follow the How to use VMware Certificate Automation Tool, my recent article where I’m using the tool to replace SSL certificates in my lab. Managing certificates through vCenter components is a pain. VMware reacts (finally) and released a command line tool called vCenter Certificate Automation Tool 1.0 which enables you to automate the […]

FVP – Server Storage Pooled Flash by PernixDATA

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Imagine you have the possibility to plugin a single (or multiple) SSDs to each of your host of you cluster running VMware vSphere, and create a very fast redundant storage tier based on flash. In addition, no existing network or storage changes are necessary. Pure fiction? Not really. PernixData is new startup company, which works on […]

vExpert Applications 2013 are open

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John Troyer @jtroyer is the man behind the vExpert program. He is the guy that does that magic…. he is able to bring the passionate people (us) together, as a community.  He has made the announcement that vExpert 2013 applications are now available, check it out. vExpert Applications 2013 are open. The deadline for applications is April 15, 2013. […]

VMware vSphere Design Book – 2nd Edition

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This newly published book is a second edition of VMware vSphere Design. The Authors Scott Lowe and Forbes Guthrie were joined by Kendrick Coleman for a detailed chapter on vCloud Director which is part of  the book. The news has been here for several days and many bloggers has already covered this during this week, […]

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