Disable RHEL 5.6 Release Upgrade on vCloud Director 1.5 Cell

The VMware vCloud Director 1.5 runs on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 platform. It is supported by VMware only on version 5.6 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you are not careful and try to patch the operating system on the vCloud Director 1.5 system, you could...

Generating SSL Certificates for vCenter Operations Manager 5.0

Generating SSL Certificates for usage with vCenter, Update Manager and the ESXi host is one of those tasks that keeps being push away. Accepting the self-signed certificates is fine in most situation, but getting validated certificates means a whole lot of pop-ups...

HP ML110 G7 and VT-d DirectPath I/O Configuration and VMware FT

I’ve had quiet a few questions over the past days about the HP ProLiant ML110 G7. And here are some screenshots aboutabout using Intel VT-d or DirectPath I/O and VMware FT. To use the Intel VT-d DirectPath I/O you need to make sure that Intel VT-d is enabled in...