VMware recently released a new product call vCenter Support Assistant. This virtual appliance places an icon in the vCenter ‘Solutions and Applications’ area where you can contact support, open SRs and upload support bundles. You can view the entire product overview and access the download link from here: http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcenter-support-assistant/overview.html. This…
Over the years I’ve done quite a bit of scripting. Many of those scripts SELECT, INSERT or UPDATE a SQL database. The other day I was looking at my tables and realized I didn’t know what (or if) some of them were used for and I didn’t have very good…
This is an issue I experienced a couple of months back, but thought I’d take some time and document it here as I couldn’t find any reference to other people experiencing this issue. For some background for this environment there are two vCenters joined with Linked Mode. One of the…
The vCO team has a great post on issuing an SSL certificate for the Windows version of vCO here: http://www.vcoteam.info/learn-vco/work-with-vco-over-ssl.html. I’ve recently been doing some work with the vCO virtual appliance and wanted to issue an SSL certificate for the appliance. The steps are nearly the same as Windows with…