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The Diary of a Keen Upgrader

Today I am wearing my “Keen Upgrader” hat!

I have been upgrading my lab environment and got stuck with VMware vCenter Operations Manager upgrade. The procedure is quite straight forward and is well documented.

The procedure consists of two steps (see here):

Upgrade vCenter Operations Manager vApp; Upgrade the OS to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server […]

HOW TO: Remove unwanted plug-ins from VMware vCenter Server

When using third-party management products for vCenter Server, these plug-ins appear in the Available Plug-ins list. Some of these products may not have an uninstaller to remove the entry under Available Plug-ins or have been deleted/uninstalled before the plug-in was unregistered from vCenter.

For example, we ran a PoC for vFabric Data Director in the […]

VMware vCenter Support Assistant Appliance: Cannot connect to the lookup service at the specified URL.

VMware vCenter Support Assistant Appliance installation step 1 – Configure “Lookup Service address” failed with the error message: “Cannot connect to the lookup service at the specified URL. Check if the URL is correct”.

I tested the URL and DNS configuration on the VA – all OK. Tried the FQDN of the vCenter […]

PowerCLI: Average CPU, Memory, Network and Disk usage

This simple PowerShell/PowerCLI script calculates the average CPU, Memory, Network and Disk usage for powered on virtual machines over the last 30 days, 5 minutes interval.

Amend ‘AddDays(-N)‘ and ‘-IntervalMins 5‘ if needed.

Get-VM | Where {$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn"} | Select Name, Host, NumCpu, MemoryMB, ` @{N="CPU Usage (Average), Mhz" ; E={[Math]::Round((($_ | Get-Stat -Stat […]

HOW TO: Upgrade VMware vCloud Networking and Security / vShield Manager, vShield Endpoint, vShield App, vShield Edge

In this guide I will take you through the vCloud Networking and Security / vShield Manager and components upgrade to version 5.5.3.1. This release addresses Shellshock vulnerability (VMware KB 2091218).

Before you proceed with the upgrade, please confirm the new version is compatible with the existing VMware and other security products in your environment (Trend […]

VMware vCloud Connector 2.6.1 – copy wizard validates vCC Node staging area size

I recently upgraded VMware vCloud Connector from version 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 (check out THIS POST for details) and noticed a cool new feature!

In the previous versions, including v 2.6.0, the pre copy validation did not check the size of the vCC Node staging area – the local disk storage used for the OVF export […]

VMware vCloud Connector Server upgrade

I tried to upgrade VMware vCloud Connector Server but the upgrade got stuck at “Checking for available updates…” and Check Updates button was greyed out even after restarting the vCC Server.

In order to stop vCC from continuing in this state perform the following steps:

In the vCC Server web interface go to the […]

VMware vCloud Connector Server / Node admin account: Unable to authenticate user. Please try again.

I had to re-visit a vCloud Connector environment I built quite a while ago but could not login to neither VMware vCloud Connector Server nor Node with the admin account. I was sure that I did not change the default password (vmware) so was the customer. I also checked that admin account was not locked […]

The Ultimate Guide to uninstalling Trend Micro Deep Security Agent

I had a problem activating TM DS Agent with symptoms similar to the ones described in Trend Micro Knowledge Base / Solution ID 1095437 “Anti-malware module of the Deep Security Agent (DSA) shows “Driver offline / Not installed” in the Deep Security Notifier“.

After numerous attempts to uninstall/clean up/reinstall Trend Micro Deep Security Agent the […]

Trend Micro Deep Security: Configure Deep Security Manager’s Maximum Memory Usage

I have been reading Trend Micro Deep Security Best Practice Guide and found this interesting fact – The Deep Security Manager (DSM) default setting for maximum memory usage is 4GB. In other words, even if you increase the size of server memory it may not necessarily help TM DSM performance.

Here is a small extract […]