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- June 22, 2017
vCenter SSO: The Most Misunderstood Part of vSphere
vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) is the authentication backbone of the vSphere platform. It handles login to vCenter, manages identity sources, and issues tokens that vSphere services use to authenticate …
- April 3, 2017
Stale Data After a Failed vCenter Upgrade: How to Clean It Up
A failed vCenter upgrade is among the more stressful VMware events you’ll deal with. The VMs are still running, HA and DRS are still functioning on cached state, but vCenter itself is in an …
- February 28, 2017
vCenter Permissions and Roles: Getting It Right From Day One
vCenter’s role-based access control is one of those configuration areas that gets set up once during initial deployment and then rarely revisited — until someone has more access than they …
- October 4, 2016
vCenter SSL Certificate Issues: The One That Bit Me Three Times
Certificate issues in vSphere environments are the most reliable source of annoying, hard-to-diagnose problems I’ve encountered. They show up at upgrade time, after hardware changes, when adding …
- July 11, 2016
When to Add vCenter: The Decision That Changes Everything
Running standalone ESXi hosts is a common starting point for small businesses. It’s simple, cost-effective, and covers a lot of ground. But there’s a clear inflection point where …