Author Archives: brian.wuchner

SQL Database Documentation

Posted on January 15, 2013 by brian.wuchner

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 … Continue reading →

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Linked mode, server replacement and VMwareVCMSDS errors

Posted on January 8, 2013 by brian.wuchner

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 … Continue reading →

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vCO Appliance and SSL Certificates

Posted on January 1, 2013 by brian.wuchner

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 … Continue reading →

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VMware Tools and VMware vCenter Server Appliance

Posted on December 31, 2012 by brian.wuchner

As part of my series on installing VMware Tools on virtual appliances, I wanted to post an article on the VMware vCenter Server Appliance. The instructions for this topic are identical to the VMware Tools and vCO Appliance post. There … Continue reading →

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VMware Tools and vCO Appliance

Posted on December 27, 2012 by brian.wuchner

In a recent post I wrote about my obsessive compulsive desire to update all my VMware Tools. In many cases virtual appliances come with a ‘3rd-party/independent’ version of VMware Tools which are not ‘Current’ according to the vSphere Client. If … Continue reading →

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