Author: Piotr Tarnawski

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Posted in vSphere

VMworld 2021 – Schedule your session!

Join VMworld 2021, the industry’s premier multi-cloud event. Where the people & organizations creating the digital foundation for technology and business transformation gather. There are…

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Posted in vCenter

How to create CSR with multiple SANs

Sometime you would like to include SAN (Subject Alternative Name) to your certificate. SAN is a specific type of SSL that allows you to secure…

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Posted in vCenter

How to renew certificates for vCenter (6.x)

If you have not upgraded yet to vSphere 7 and your vCenter certificate is about to expire or already expired, here is an runlist how…

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Posted in vCenter

How to export certificate from Certification Path

This article for a person who needs the whole chain for a certificate. Open certificate (double click on it) Go to Certification Path tab Double…

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Posted in vCenter

PowerShell to Upgrade the Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS)

After upgrading vSphere to version 7 there is one more component needs to be upgraded. VMware Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS). NOTE: Prior VDS upgrade all…

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Posted in ESXi vCenter

VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 2c, VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 2c – overview.

Discontinuation of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 in a future major vSphere release: VMware intends in a future major vSphere release to discontinue support of TPM…

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Posted in Aria

Data Retriever is not initialized yet. Please wait. – How to replace expired internal certificate in vRealize Operations Manager

You may not know but vROps has an internal certificate that may expire. If you won’t catch it on time, you will be in the…

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Posted in Aria

vROps 8.5 Hot Fix! Fixing EP Ops adapter, SNMP Trap Plugin, memory heap size and many more!

After upgrading my vRealize Operations Manager to 8.5 I received an alert stating that: In Redescribe section I saw that EP Ops Adapter has status…

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Posted in Aria

Upgrade vRealize Operations 8.x to newest 8.5 version

It is time to upgrade vROps to the newest version. You can perform in-place upgrade from any 8.x version. I strongly recommend to run per-upgrade…

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Posted in Security Advisory

Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0018

Yesterday VMware released  IMPORTANT Security Advisory for vRealize Operations Manager, Please see below information on VMSA-2021-0018, Important Notes, and Security Patch PAK to address this Security Advisory: Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0018 – VMware vRealize Operations…

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