Friday, April 26, 2013

vSphere, vCloud and other VMware Product Updates

There are new updates available for the following products and including their release notes.

 To download the updates you need MyVMware credentials.


VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 1
https://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsphere-vcenter-server-51u1-release-notes.html


VMware vSphere Update Manager 5.1 Update 1
http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsphere-update-manager-51u1-release-notes.html


vCenter Server Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1
https://www.vmware.com/support/mhm/doc/vcenter-multi-hypervisor-manager-11-release-notes.html


VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1
https://www.vmware.com/support/converter/doc/conv_sa_51_rel_notes.html


VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat 6.5 Update 1
https://www.vmware.com/support/heartbeat/doc/vcenter-server-heartbeat-65-u1-release-notes.html


VMware vCloud Director 5.1.2
https://www.vmware.com/support/vcd/doc/rel_notes_vcloud_director_512.html


VMware vCloud Director Appliance 5.1.2
http://www.vmware.com/support/vcd/doc/rel_notes_vcloud_director_512.html

VMware vSphere Replication 5.1.1
http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsphere-replication-511-release-notes.html


vSphere Site Recovery Manager 5.1.1
https://www.vmware.com/support/srm/srm-releasenotes-5-1-1.html


vSphere Data Protection 5.1.20
https://www.vmware.com/support/vdr/doc/vdp_5120_releasenotes.html


vSphere Storage Appliance 5.1.3
http://www.vmware.com/support/vsa/doc/vsphere-storage-appliance-513-release-notes.html


vCloud Networking and Security 5.1.2a
https://www.vmware.com/support/vshield/doc/releasenotes_vshield_512a.html


Please refer the upgrade guides before you plan the upgrade to stay away from any gotchas.

Enjoy your upgrade Time !!

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

VMware Certifications List with recent name change

Recently VMwrae Education Services has renamed all the available Certifications including VCDX.

Here is the full List of all the certificates except the once highlighted in Red which are coming soon.


CLOUD (vCloud Director based)

VMware Certified Professional – Cloud (VCP-Cloud)
VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Cloud Infrastructure Administration (VCAP-CIA)
VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Cloud Infrastructure Design (VCAP-CID)
VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Cloud Governance (VCAP-CG)
VMware Certified Design Expert – Cloud (VCDX-Cloud)



DATA CENTER VIRTUALIZATION(vSphere 4.x and 5.x based)

VMware Certified Professional 4 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP4-DCV)
VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV)
VMware Certified Advanced Professional 4 – Data Center Administration (VCAP4-DCA)
VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – Data Center Administration (VCAP5-DCA)
VMware Certified Advanced Professional 4 – Data Center Design (VCAP4-DCD)
VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – Data Center Design (VCAP5-DCD)
VMware Certified Design Expert 4 – Data Center Virtualization (VCDX4-DCV)
VMware Certified Design gpExpert 5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCDX5-DCV)



END USER COMPUTING (VMware View based)

VMware Certified Associate 4 – Desktop (VCA4-DT)
VMware Certified Professional 4 – Desktop (VCP4-DT)
VMware Certified Professional 5 – Desktop (VCP5-DT)
VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Desktop Design (VCAP-DTD)
VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Desktop Administration (VCAP-DTA)
VMware Certified Design Expert – Desktop (VCDX-DT)


For more information on each one visit the site here

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Good Luck !!

Thursday, April 4, 2013

vCenter Certificate Automation Tool 1.0

Recently with the introduction of SSO people find it difficult to manage SSL certificates with various VMware products. So based on the issues and other facts VMware has released today a new tool called "vCenter Certification Automation Tool version 1.0" which will help implementation of Custom certificates which can be mainly categorized in the following category

  1. Secure token Service Certificate – Certificate used by vCenter Single Sign On (SSO) for encryption tokens
  2. Solution User Certificates – Certificates used by each solution to identify themselves as users to SSO
  3. SSL Certificates  – certificates needed for SSL communication for the UI and API layer
  4. Host Certificates – These certificates are deployed in each ESXi host and used for secure vCenter to ESXi communication.

This tool will help configuring the SSL certificates for the following products

  1. vCenter Server
  2. vCenter Single Sign On
  3. vCenter Inventory Service
  4. vSphere Web Client
  5. vCenter Log Browser
  6. VMware Update Manager (VUM)
  7. vCenter Orchestrator (VCO)

KB 2041600 is published which will discuss about the Tool in detail and you can find the blog post here.


You can download the Tool from here which will require you MyVMware Account credentials.

Hope you now have smooth experience while dealing with SSL certificates.

Lot of people are involved in developing this tool and Hats Off to all of them.

Please provide the feedback about the tool on the VMware blog post page.

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