Running vCentre as an appliance is becoming more common and with the latest version its very appealing over running as a Windows server. Updating the virtual appliance to a newer version of vCenter is easily done and the following will illustrate the process to upgrade vCenter appliance 6.0 Update 1 […]
Platform Service Controller (PSC) can be deployed in different topologies, check the supported topologies here before deployment. I have done a few deployments now using the below topology across two sites. The following will illustrate how to check that replication between sites. Using this method provides Enhanced Linked-Mode between vCenters. VMware KB […]
With vSphere 6 vCenter now includes the Platform Services Controller (PSC) which runs services such as SSO, it also includes VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA). VMCA is installed on an embedded vCenter server or an external PSC. You can configure VMCA into three mode - VMCA Default (self-signed certificates are deployed […]
VMware vCenter 6 can be deployed as a Windows box or as an appliance, similar to previous version but with version 6 its even more appealing to run it as a VA which supports up to 1,000 hosts and 10,000 VMs using the built in PostgreSQL database. The following deployment is […]
Hardening guide for vSphere 6.0 was release back in June and is found here, previous versions from 4.0 onwards are also available from the same site