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vRealize Operations Upgrade Assessment Tool can help you scan your content for these metrics and provide you recommended replacements in form of a pre-upgrade assessment report. To find out what user content may be impacted by the metric reduction, run the Upgrade Assessment Tool before upgrading to vRealize Operations Manager 7.0. Download the Upgrade Assessment Tool […]
The end of general support for vSphere 5.5 was on September 19, 2018. After you’ve made sure your environment is backed up and ready for an upgrade, the next step would be deciding what version to upgrade to and what considerations you need to make as part of the support upgrade path. You have four […]
This post provides steps for modifying the supported TLS protocols using TLS reconfiguration utility and powercli script, and disabling TLSv1.0 & TLSv1.1 within the vSphere environment. The utility/script will allow for an end-to-end disablement of TLSv1.0/TLS v1.1 across a vSphere environment. However, the vCenter Server, Platform Services Controller, and ESXi hosts within the environment must […]
The pktcap-uw tool is an enhanced packet capture and analysis tool that can be used in place of the legacy tcpdump-uw tool. The pktcap-uw tool is included by default in ESXi 5.5 and later versions. It was detected that running a packet capture on ESXi 6.5 hosts will cause a PSOD. This issue is known […]
Symptoms When you log in to the vSphere Replication VAMI page and click Update tab > Check Updates, you experience these symptoms: Last Check status changes to Checking for available updates… Unable to break out of this loop to update settings. Rebooting the appliance does not break the loop. Resolution To resolve the issue: Connect […]
vCloud Director, received a major upgrade to help both Cloud Providers and their enterprise customers. The new vCloud Director 9.5 enhances easy and intuitive cloud provisioning and consumption by adding highly-requested capabilities including self-service data protection, disaster recovery, and container-orchestration for cloud consumers, along with multi-site management, multi-tenancy and cross-platform networking for Cloud Providers. With […]
”L1 Terminal Fault” vulnerabilities CVE-2018-3646, CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3615 Intel has disclosed details on a new class of CPU speculative-execution vulnerabilities known collectively as “L1 Terminal Fault” that can occur on past and current Intel processors (from at least 2009 – 2018). Like Meltdown, Rogue System Register Read, and “Lazy FP state restore”, the “L1 Terminal […]
This article provides procedures to import a wildcard certificate to VMware vCloud Director. Each vCloud Director server requires two SSL certificates, one for the HTTP service and one for the console proxy service, in a Java keystore file. You can use certificates signed by a trusted certification authority, or self-signed certificates. Signed certificates provide the […]
Integrating with vCenter Server for backups and restores Following our previous post “Get started with Acronis Cloud” Backup” we are now ready to backup VMs from our source site and restore them on different location running vSphere infrastructure. Privileges for VM Backup and Recovery on vCenter Server These are the privileges a vCenter Server user […]
Recently BakingClouds received an invitation to trial Acronis Cloud Backup so here we go on testing what Acronis Cloud is offering for service providers and customers. Acronis offers backups and restore (BaaS) with a self-service portal where you login, download the agent for your server or application to backup, register the agent with your Acronis […]