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HOW TO: Create server certificate and include DNS alias

By default certificates are tied to the exact server name they are created for. Which is normally the FQDN of the server. If you create a certificate for the server myserver.vstrong.info and then connect to it by the short name myserver / MyServer or by any other DNS aliases, the certificate will not be seen […]

“Error: Invalid port or Certificate” appears in the RecoverPoint Management Console when adding vCenter Server

After RecoverPoint upgrade, both vCenters were not available in the RecoverPoint Management Console. When I tried to re-add vCenter, it failed with the error message “Operation Failed. Error: Invalid port or Certificate“.

I checked the user can access vCenter and the account is not locked out etc. If I remember correctly, it was not necessary […]

Trend Micro Deep Security Manager 8.0 Service Pack 2

Trend Micro Deep Security 8.0 SP2 is now released and posted in the download center.

What’s New in Service Pack 2: Support for VMware ESXi 5.1 as well as ESXi 5.0 Windows 8 / Server 2012 Support Real time notification from DSA to DSM on AM detection. Added a feature to send Anti-Malware detection events […]

HOW TO: Configure Shared Diagnostic Partition on VMware ESX host

I meant to write this article for a very long time, even before I started this blog. Even took the screenshots and made a note of commands but never found time to do it. Well, better late than never! Besides, you don’t do it very often. Most likely only once, when you configure your ESX […]

vShield Manager stopped working

All of a sudden vShield Manager stopped working this morning. I could not open management web page (Page Cannot Be Displayed…) but I was able to ping VSE, console worked OK and IP address was shown on the Summary tab. After couple of reboots vShield Manager did not even show the IP address.

The problem […]

Trend Micro DSVA error: dsvatool failed to config i/f (256)

I had an issue when during morning checks quite a few VMs reported “Communication Error”. On a close inspection all of them were running on a particular ESX host. DSVA’s status was “Component Update Failure”. Restart of the DSVA did not help. I vMotioned all VMs off that host and tried to deactivate DSVA but […]

HOW TO: Upgrade vShield Manager, vShield Endpoint and don’t break Trend Micro DSVA

We are currently in a process of upgrading out VMware environment to 5.0 Update 1 and therefore need to upgrade vShiled Manager and Vmware Endpoint. We managed to get Trend Micro Deep Security Virtual Appliances under control (See my “Trend Micro Deep Security: Anti-Malware Engine Offline” post) and did not want vShield Manager upgrade to […]

HOW TO: Increase or decrese dubugging level in Trend Micro Deep Security Virtual Appliance DSVA

The default debug log level in Trend Micro DSVA is 5. To check current debug log level run this command:

grep LOG_EMERG /var/log/syslog

If DSVA was restarted recently and debug level has not been reconfigured since last reboot, you will not get any LOG_EMERG results. The only way to check current debug log level is […]

HOW TO: Add new VMware vSphere ISO image to UIM/P

These instructions are valid for EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager / Provisioning (UIM/P) v3.0, Build 3.0.0.0.530.

UPDATE: EMC UIM/P 4.1 introduced support for Linux installation. Please refer to Add/Remove ISO images in EMC UIM/P 4.1 for details of the updated procedure.

When you try to create a New Service Offering you will only be able to […]

VMware ESXi Driver for Cisco fnic and Cisco enic

Download VMware ESXi Driver for Cisco fnic and Cisco enic: Cisco fnic driver 1.5.0.8 / fnic driver 1.5.0.20; Cisco enic driver 2.1.2.22 / enic driver 2.1.2.38. If the links above do not work, login to My VMware > Product & Downloads > All Downloads > VMware vSphere, select vSphere version and click on Drivers […]