Category Archives: Virtualization

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 →

I recently deployed the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) virtual appliance to an ESXi 5.1 host. While it worked fine, the VMware Tools Version Status displayed ‘3rd-party/independent’ instead of Current. While this is normal, I was on a kick to get … Continue reading →