Are you a Server Hugger?
Question: Are you a Server Hugger? This conversation has come up countless times while at conferences, including VMUGs and VMworld. Come on, lets be honest, are you a server hugger? Its mentioned regularly out on twitter. Duncan Epping was live tweeting from the Benelux VMUG and it was mentioned in a session he attended presented by Andy Steven: So lets ask the question again! Are you a server hugger?… I would pretty much say yes you are. Most people who manage IT infrastructure are server huggers. You know you are, so lets just all admit it. I will start. Hello my name is David and I am a server hugger. During a number of my presentations I have given over the years, both myself and Chris Colotti have had this discussion numerous times. Sometimes between ourselves. What actually is a server hugger? Now if you google Server Hugger, the majority […]
Veeam podcast with Rick Vanover and David Hill
Yesterday I recorded a Veeam podcast with Rick Vanover. It was a great honor to be asked by Rick to take part in one of his podcasts. They are extremely popular with the virtualisation community and I want to thank Rick for inviting me on to talk. This podcast is episode number 103 in the series and is titled vCloud Air: Explain it to me. Rick writes a nice introduction: In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts David Hill. David works in Technical Marketing at VMware and is one of the best when it comes to VMware technologies and vCloud Air is what he is focusing on nowadays. Rick and David speak about what vCloud Air is at the high level, how it is priced and how some of the specific storage features like SSD-accelerated storage are used in vCloud Air. The cool thing about Rick’s podcasts is that they are […]
Server Certificate not verified error vCloud Air Plugin
After upgrading the VMware vSphere web client vCloud Air plugin today, I received the error, Server Certificate Not Verified. This error appeared when I was trying to add in my vCloud Air credentials. First you click the register vCloud Air Account Then you enter the credentials However, once you click OK you receive the error: Server Certificate Not Verified This error is actually expected, as the new release of the vCloud Air plugin version 1.5.1 release notes specifically state: Certificate requirement While establishing an SSL connection to vCloud Air, the plug-in verifies the SSL certificate of the site. As part of the installation process, you must download the certificate from https://vchs.vmware.com and add it to the trusted keystore of the vSphere Web Client. If you do not add the certificate, you will be unable to register your vCloud Air account with the plug-in or connect to vCloud Air. The vCloud Air […]
vCloud Air vSphere Client update released
Today VMware released the vCloud Air vSphere Client update version 1.5.1. This release doesn’t have any new features, but does fix some issues that have been found in the previous version. The issues resolved that this release resolve are: Certificate requirement While establishing an SSL connection to vCloud Air, the plug-in verifies the SSL certificate of the site. As part of the installation process, you must download the certificate from https://vchs.vmware.com and add it to the trusted keystore of the vSphere Web Client. If you do not add the certificate, you will be unable to register your vCloud Air account with the plug-in or connect to vCloud Air. Internationalization The plug-in now accepts non-ASCII characters in text fields and displays names with non-ASCII characters correctly. Smaller package size The plug-in package size has been reduced significantly, to approximately 10 MB. To read the full release notes follow: https://www.vmware.com/support/hybridcloud/doc/vcaplugin_151_rel_notes.html Please remember when […]