Tag: Archived
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Gotcha: vCM 5.7.3 Install on Windows Server 2012R2
Upgrading my lab and ran into an issue doing a fresh install of vCM 5.7.3 on a two-tier Windows 2012R2 setup. On the collector server, I was having two issues using the “Typical” install… 1 – During the pre-req inspection, I would get a couple of pop-ups stating that “Sysinspectoidwmi” module had stopped working. Clicking…
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Automating a Multi-Action Security Workflow with NSX, vShield Endpoint and vCO
Through a joint effort with Hadar Freehling, one of my esteemed peers here at VMware, we co-developed a proof-of-concept workflow for a network security use case. Hadar created a short video showing and explaining the use case, but in summary this is a workflow that reacts to and remediates a security issue flagged by third-party…
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Install Gotcha: vCAC, Windows Server 2012 and the Guest Agent
If you are using Windows Server 2012 or later for your IaaS install it is recommended that you disable TLS1.2 on the IIS server. From the vCAC 6.1 install guide (IaaS Windows Server Requirements): For certificates using SHA512, TLS1.2 disabled on Windows 2012 machines I have found that if you use self-signed certificates, you will…
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Using a Cloned VM as a SQL Server – Gotcha for vCAC Install
Installing the newest version of vCAC in a lab, I ran into an issue I thought only I would encounter – turns out a peer ran into the very same issue a couple of days later so I thought I would post the problem and solution. In our case we were both installing an new…
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How to Modify or Disable the Idle Session Timeout on Application Director 6
The Application Director UI is set by default to log you out after 60 minutes of inactivity. This is a good security practice, but you may wish to modify this time to a longer or shorter period – or even disable it. As described in an earlier post on modifying the session timeout for the…
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vCAC Inflate a Thin Disk
I had a customer contact me this week to ask about a vCAC custom property setting that didn’t seem to be working. The background is, they wanted to have all templates staged as thin provisioned but on deployment they would like them to be thick. **UPDATE** Turns out that the custom property below does work…
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A Couple of Gotchas Using Out of the Box Content in Application Director
I thought I would share these – not major issues if you know about them. During a recent POC these came to light and hopefully will save others some time and frustration if you are using any of the OOTB (out of the box) content (services, application blueprints, scripts, etc). As I find other gotchas…
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Use vCAC Static IP Without vCenter Customization Spec
You are probably aware that vCAC has a nice little IP Address Management (IPAM) capability built in (referred to as “Static IP” in the documentation) that allows you to create IP pools and settings with Network Profiles that can be associated to Network Paths in your reservations. If so, you’re also aware that using this…
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Publish an Application Director blueprint to the vCAC Catalog
This post covers how to publish you VMware Application Director (AppDir) 6.x application blueprints to the vCAC 6.x catalog so that users can request them. This post assumes you have a knowledge of AppDir blueprints and have configured AppDir 6.x with a vCAC 6.x cloud provider. Choose the application and create a deployment profile as…
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vCAC – Automatically Manage Local Administrator AD Groups
In my last post, we covered adding the VM requester’s AD account to local administrators on the guest. This is a quick and dirty way to getting the machine requester up and running with their new VM. However, many organizations prefer to use AD security groups for this kind of access. In fact, if you…