Category Archives: VMware

Trend Micro Deep Security 9.5 (Relay Server) -Part 2

 Part-1 blog is about the DSM installation and its function and also Trend DSM 9.6 update Now in this topic we can see the Trend Micro Deep Security Relay and its function. Trend Micro Deep Security Relay : Any Deep Security installation, … Continue reading

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Trend Micro Deep Security 9.5 ( DSM ) -Part 1

In this Blog I will explain the features and the functionality of the Trend Deep Security   product. Trend Micro Deep Security has few components which will provide protection against Malware in real-time, Intrusion prevention. Web Reputation, Firewall rules. It is … Continue reading

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Information about ESXi Patches

Before updating the new patches on the ESXi host, I was looking to find the patches which were  already applied on the hosts and I used the command “esxcli software vib list “ but  only got the VIBs and drivers info … Continue reading

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vShield sync issue with host ” Not applicable to ESX version below 4.1 Patch 3 “

In few cases vShield have failed to sync with host and it will show the wrong  server version on the vSheild status.We have ESX 5.1 running on host but in vSheild it was showing as 4.1 .. To solve this … Continue reading

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Adding vShield Manager to the AD Users.

To configure SSO on the vShield Manager: Log into your vShield Manager, then click Settings & Reports> Configuration. Click Editfor the Lookup Service and reconfigure SSO. Click OK, then click Yesin the Security warning pop-up. Wait for the configuration to complete. SSO has now been successfully reconfigured on vShield … Continue reading

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How to unlock or reset the SSO password and possible way to find the SSO Master password.

If we don’t remember the login password of SSO ( admin@system-domain ) , we can reset the same using the rsautil sso command but we require the Master password of the SSO which was provided during the installation and without the … Continue reading

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Arguments for first disk – Auto Depoly

vSphere 5.1 added the new feature in Auto Deploy : Stateless Caching \ Stateful  Install feature . In this method we can enable the option to save the ESXi Image to an assigned dedicated boot disk and it can be … Continue reading

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vCenter Server 5.1 fails with the error while we providing the administrator group “Wrong Input – Either a command Line argument is Wrong “

During the VC SSO installation I was facing the error “Wrong Input – Either a command Line argument is Wrong “ and I found if HA SSO service is selected as High Availability mode then  instead of local administrative group … Continue reading

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Update Manager with multiple vCenter Server instances.

By default VUM ( VMware vSphere Update Manager )  supports only one VC instance and  it can’t support multiple VCs simultaneously but having the VUM utility we can re-configure the second VC separately to use the same update manager . This method … Continue reading

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Removing the VNIC completely from the Windows VM.

We removed the VNIC E1000 and added a new NIC with VMXNET3 on one of the windows 2008 VM , noticed that windows doesn’t delete the hardware and it just moved as a hidden device. After spending some time , … Continue reading

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