Category Archives: Virtualization

Skyline Health Diagnostics custom SSL certificates

Posted on October 17, 2020 by brian.wuchner

I recently read about the new Skyline Health Diagnostics tool. Here is a short quote that captures what this tool is all about. VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics for vSphere is a self-service tool to detect issues using log bundles and … Continue reading →

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Photon OS 3.0 Grow Filesystem

Posted on October 13, 2020 by brian.wuchner

I recently had a need to grow the root filesystem on a Photon OS 3.0 virtual machine. This is something I’ve done before with Ubuntu Linux (blog post here), but Photon OS does not include the growpart command out of … Continue reading →

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Lab Updates: Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS Template

Posted on July 3, 2020 by brian.wuchner

Earlier this year I posted a thread on creating an Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS Template for use in a lab. You can check that out here: https://enterpriseadmins.org/blog/virtualization/lab-updates-ubuntu-18-04-template/ In late April of this year (2020) Canonical released a new Ubuntu 20.04 … Continue reading →

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vRealize Operations Alerts using Rest Notification Plugin

Posted on February 2, 2020 by brian.wuchner

I have created several vRealize Operations (vROps) alerts in the past, mainly using the Log File Plugin and Standard Email Plugin. However, I recently had someone ask for more information on using the Rest Notification Plugin. I hadn’t used this, … Continue reading →

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Using Log Insight Agent to find insecure LDAP binds

Posted on February 2, 2020 by brian.wuchner

I recently read an interesting article on the vSphere Blog: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/01/microsoft-ldap-vsphere-channel-binding-signing-adv190023.html, which states Microsoft is making a change to the default behavior of LDAP servers that are part of Active Directory. This change will require secure LDAP channel binding by … Continue reading →

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