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vCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) – Part 4 – Deploy CA-signed certificates
In part 3, we finished the setup of our appliance. But if we really want a polished installation we still have a “little” thing to do: replace the self-signed certificates by certificates signed by our...
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vSphere Replication – Part 1 – Concept and architecture
In this first vSphere Replication article we will have an overview of the product: how does it work? What are the components? After this overview, we will show several possible vSphere Replication...
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vSphere Replication – Part 2 – Deployment of the appliance
In the first part of our article series, we had an overview of the vSphere Replication inner workings and studied several typical implementation designs. In this second part we will deploy the vSphere...
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vSphere Replication – Part 3 – Basic setup and custom certificate
In the previous article we deployed our appliances. Before to go live, we are going to update some settings and update the self-signed certificates with CA-signed certificates. With that done, we will...
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vSphere Replication – Part 4 – Replication and monitoring
In the previous part we finished to setup our appliances. We can now start to replicate virtual machines! In this article, we are going to configure a new replication and check how we can monitor the...
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vSphere Replication – Part 5 – Recovery test
In part 4, we configured replications and learned to monitor them. Now it’s time to test a virtual machine recovery! We will connect to the disaster recovery vCenter and recover a replicated virtual...
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vSphere Replication – Create an alarm for RPO violations
In our article series about vSphere Replication, we configured new replications and checked the possibilities for monitoring these replications. These monitoring possibilities are interesting when you...
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SharePoint / Active Directory synchronization fails with eventID 6801
From time to time, the UPS fails with the following symptoms: The event viewer (application log) displays the events 6801, 6803 and 6110, in this order. The Forefront Identity Manager (found here:...
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Install a custom certificate for vRealize Operations Manager
Today we are going to install a custom, CA-signed certificate for our new instance of vROps. VMware published information about the certificate requirements (in short: .pem file, full certificate chain...
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Performance impact of snapshots
VMware recommends using a snapshot for a maximum of three days. The main reason for justifying this recommendation is related to disk space: snapshots can grow quickly on disk-intensive virtual...
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vExpert 2015!
I learned this morning that I was just awarded the vExpert title! I submitted last year without really knowing what was behind the vExpert program. Now that I see the big picture, I’m impressed by all...
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