Life after vSphere 5.5 End of General Support
The end of general support for vSphere 5.5 was on September 19, 2018. After you’ve made…
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Managing TLS protocol configuration for vSphere 6.0 Update 3
This post provides steps for modifying the supported TLS protocols using TLS reconfiguration utility and powercli…
ESXi 6.0 and 6.5 PSOD when running pktcap-uw
The pktcap-uw tool is an enhanced packet capture and analysis tool that can be used in…
Checking for updates in the vSphere Replication appliance fails on “Checking for available updates…”
Symptoms When you log in to the vSphere Replication VAMI page and click Update tab >…
VMware vCloud Director 9.5 – Announcement
vCloud Director, received a major upgrade to help both Cloud Providers and their enterprise customers. The…
Security issues related to speculative execution in Intel processors – VMware announcement
”L1 Terminal Fault” vulnerabilities CVE-2018-3646, CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3615 Intel has disclosed details on a new class…
Installing Wildcard Signed SSL certificates in vCloud Director 9.1
This article provides procedures to import a wildcard certificate to VMware vCloud Director. Each vCloud Director…
Acronis Cloud – vCenter Server Integration for backup and restore
Integrating with vCenter Server for backups and restores Following our previous post “Get started with Acronis…
Get started with Acronis Cloud Backup
Recently BakingClouds received an invitation to trial Acronis Cloud Backup so here we go on testing…
Troubleshooting when UMDS is unable to download patches
This post outlines the process of troubleshooting issues when Update Manager Download Services is unable to…
Install and Configure Update Manager 6.5 on Windows
VMware Update Manager provides centralised patch and version management for ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and virtual…
VMware Cloud Migration Portal (CMP) no longer available
For those who had the opportunity to use “Cloud Migration Portal” there are no good news.…
vCloud Architecture Toolkit for Service Provider – Update May
Error during upgrade of Zerto Virtual Manager from v5.0 to 5.5 u4
Symptoms: ZVM upgrade to 5.5 U4 fails reporting the following: Error 1330. A file that is…
What to expect during vCloud Director 9.1 database migration from MSSQL to Postgres
This quick post is about my experience during vcloud DB migration from MSSQL to Postgres. DB…