Category Archives: Virtualization

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 … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →