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Server Certificate not verified error vCloud Air Plugin

By David Hill on November 19, 2014 in vCloud Air

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 […]

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vCloud Air vSphere Client update released

By David Hill on November 18, 2014 in vCloud Air

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 […]

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Take part vCloud Air OnDemand early access program

By David Hill on November 12, 2014 in vCloud Air

Are you interested in taking part in the vCloud Air OnDemand early access program? The vCloud Air product team is is now accepting candidates for the Early Access Program. The vCloud Air Early Access program offers: Free Service credits: Join the EAP now and receive up to $1000 in service credits 100% compatibility with your existing IT environment Create, resize, rename and delete data centers on the fly Instant access to compute resources – run vSphere workloads anywhere Per minute metering – Pay for only what you use Self service sign up – Service provisioned in minutes Follow this link to sign up for the Early Access Program: http://vcloud.vmware.com/uk/service-offering/virtual-private-cloud-ondemand You can watch this short video that explains what the Early Access Program is all about. This is a really cool offer to get access to the vCloud Air OnDemand offering, which will give people a great opportunity to test vCloud Air […]

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VMware vCloud Air Australia – a new location

By David Hill on November 5, 2014 in vCloud Air

VMware has announced that vCloud Air will be expanding to Australia in 2015. VMware vCloud Air Australia will offer local vSphere customers the ability to build and extend the hybrid cloud in the local geography. Something they have been asking for for some time. VMware vCloud Air Australia Asia is a big market place for IT, and having cloud offerings in both Japan and Australia will provide flexible access for customers building their cloud strategy. You can read the official VMware announcement here: http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/2014/11/vmware-vcloud-air-continues-global-expansion-now-australia.html The Register has a great article on the announcement: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/04/vmware_announces_vcloud_air_for_australia/ For me personally working in the Cloud Services BU at VMware, this continues to show our commitment, dedication and drive to bring our customers the best integrated cloud platform. Its going to be an exciting 2015 with Germany, Australia, Japan, UK and all the US data centers online. My Tech Marketing Lab is going to get extremely interesting […]

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VMware vCloud Air Microsoft Exchange and SRM

By David Hill on November 3, 2014 in vCloud Air

Over the past few months I have been working on a number of scenarios for VMware vCloud Air and deploying Microsoft Exchange in a Hybrid Cloud design. I have written a couple of blog articles about the subject too. VMware vCloud Air Microsoft Exchange The first one was about how you would deploy Microsoft Exchange in a hybrid cloud and at a high level how you would do this. Read the article here. The second article, I wrote for VMware blogs, which discusses the business reasons behind why you would actually want too, and this article can be read here. At a high level these are: • Growth – Speed – Agility – Expansion – Fluidity • Leverage Existing Infrastructure – Backups – Archiving • Disaster Recovery – Build a highly resilient messaging solution • Operational efficiency – SLAs from cloud In the first article, I talk about why you […]

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