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Authorized Keys and ESXi 6.0 Update 2 – Changes to OpenSSH

Mike Foley posted April 7, 2016

William Lam brought up some feedback on Socialcast the other day. The story was of a customer who updated to ESXi 6.0 Update 2 and the SSH keys he was using no longer worked. The customer was advocating for changing the file /etc/sshd_config so that he could continue to use the keys on his ESXi Read more...

Blogger Talk Show–Pilot Episode on PowerCLI

Alan Renouf posted April 5, 2016

Here at VMware we are always trying to make sure we give you the information you need in a way that you can best consume it. With this in mind, a little while ago I was asked to take part in a pilot for a new talk show VMware is looking to gain feedback on, Read more...

Two Factor Authentication for vSphere – RSA SecurID – Part 2

Mike Foley posted April 4, 2016

Introduction In Part 1 of Two Factor Authentication for vSphere – RSA SecurID, we configured RSA Authentication Manager to get it ready for adding the PSC as an Authentication Manager agent. In this post, we’ll configure the Platform Services Controller (PSC) itself by uploading the sdconf.rec file and running the appropriate CLI commands to enable Read more...

Top Ten things to consider when moving Business Critical Applications (BCA) to the Cloud (Part 2 of 3)

Mohan Potheri posted April 1, 2016

In the first part we looked at public, private and Hybrid Cloud and their characteristics. In this part we will look at the common characteristics of business critical applications. We will also look at how some of these characteristics relate to the different types of Cloud infrastructure. Common Characteristics of Business Critical Applications (BCA): Business critical Read more...

Two Factor Authentication for vSphere – RSA SecurID – Part 1

Mike Foley posted April 1, 2016

Introduction This is Part 1 of a 2 part blog series. In this post we’ll talk about setting up RSA SecurID Authentication Manager, some architectural assumptions and what you’ll need to take with you to Part 2. Two Factor Authentication Two factor authentication (2FA) has become ubiquitous nowadays. For those of you still in the Read more...

vSphere HTML5 Web Client Fling – Getting Started

Emad Younis posted March 30, 2016

Update 3/30/16 – Added requirement of IP Pool for vSphere Client VMware announced the first step towards making a HTML5 Web Client a reality, the vSphere HTML5 Web Client Fling. This first release of the Fling will focus primarily on VM management, with more updates coming. Here is a list of the features and operations available in this Read more...

Virtual SAN 6.2 – Deduplication And Compression Deep Dive

Anita Kibunguchy posted March 29, 2016

Virtual SAN 6.2 introduced several highly anticipated product features and in this blog, we’ll focus on some of the coolest ones: Dedupe & Compression. These features were requested by VMware customers and I am glad that we listened to the customer. When talking about Dedupe and Compression, one first needs to determine why an organization Read more...

vSphere HTML5 Web Client Fling

Vishwa Srikaanth posted March 28, 2016

Today we are excited to announce the release of the vSphere HTML5 Web Client Fling. The decision to go with Flash was made years ago, before HTML5 and developer tools were ready. The situation has changed, and we’ve been working very hard on removing the dependency on Flash to improve performance, stability, and security. The Web Read more...

Top Ten things to consider when moving Business Critical Applications (BCA) to the Cloud (Part 1 of 3)

Mohan Potheri posted March 25, 2016

The cloud transformation is now for real. Customers have a stated long-term goal of running a majority of their applications in the cloud. Gartner predicts that public cloud services to grow by 16.5% in 2016. The highest growth area is cloud infrastructure, which is projected to grow at 38.4% in 2016. Today’s CIOs understand that Read more...