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VMware Certificate Automation Tool – How to use

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VMware Certificate Automation Tool 1.0 which has been released few days back (my post: vCenter certificate automation tool 1.0) enables to automate (or rather semi-automate) the management of SSL certificates of different vCenter components. This tool is the only tool that automates the job and which is supported by VMware. Certificates are real pain, and […]

vOpenData – open community virtualization database project

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vOpenData is a community driven project where user submit  virtual infrastructure configurations, (collected via script) where only anonymous data are collected. Those data then feed up a database which is accessible in a form of dashboard where you can see most common configurations. Ben Thomas and William Lam had a dream which came true very quickly. Actually it was […]

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 […]

Splunk App For Windows Server

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New release of Splunk App for Windows server is available.  This product is designed for Windows servers, where version 2003, 2008 or 2012 servers are currently supported releases, but can be installed also on client machines running Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8. This new release introduces new dashboard for distributed environments, with customizable performance […]

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 […]

VMware Horizon Mirage Video – Migrating XP to Win 7

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This is almost step by step video from VMware showing the seamless migration of Windows XP system by using VMware Mirage. VMware Mirage 4 has introduced layered approach to migration and management of data across AD management infrastructures. Is possible to create a layer with different set of applications, and apply this layer to a group of users or […]