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vSphere 6.5 – enhanced logging

vSphere 6.5 – enhanced logging

  vSphere 6.5 introduces audit logging, before vSphere 6.5  logs were more focused on finding root causes of a problem – not releate deep  to IT operations or security use cases. For example, if a virtual machine was reconfigured from one storage adapter to another in logs we would find only “Virtual Machine <name> reconfigured”.  But now logs which are coming from vCenter via Syslog will contain data from vCenter Events. These logs will clearly show “Before” and “After” setting…

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vSphere 6.5 Installation – Part 3 – vCenter Server on Windows

vSphere 6.5 Installation – Part 3 – vCenter Server on Windows

This is the third part of the series in which I’m describing the process of installation vSphere 6.5 components. In this part I’ll go throught the process of installation vCenter Server on MS Windows Server 2012 R2. The others parts are: vSphere 6.5 Installation – Part 1 – External PSC vSphere 6.5 Installation – Part 2 – vCenter Server Appliance Now let’s check how the Windows installation looks like in the latest vSphere version. Prerequisities:  ISO for vCenter Server installation….

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vSphere 6.5 Installation – Part 2 – vCenter Server Appliance

vSphere 6.5 Installation – Part 2 – vCenter Server Appliance

In the previous Part I of the series, I described the installation process of external PSC in vSphere 6.5.  In this part I’ll go through the process of vCenter Server appliance deployment. The first step is to download the vCSA ISO image and mount it for instance to your desktop. Inside the ISO image go to D:\vcsa-ui-installer\win32 and run the installer.exe. (This is the same ISO image used for PSC deployment). Then we choose the Install option, as you can see there are also…

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vSphere 6.5 Security Enhancements  

vSphere 6.5 Security Enhancements  

  In this article I will try to point most important security enhancements in recently released vSphere 6.5 platform.  As we can hear from “pre GA” sneak peek information VMware will build security in 3 areas: Secure access – logs monitoring and audit Secure infrastructure – hypervisor with minimal footprint = minimal attack surface and cryptographic option to provide SecureBoot Secure data – hypervisor-level encryption for VM data Let’s go deeper  into the  technology – below is a list of…

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vSphere 6.5 Installation – Part 1 – External PSC

vSphere 6.5 Installation – Part 1 – External PSC

This is the first part of the series describing the different options to install, restore and upgrade vSphere 6.5, especially the vCenter server. In this part we will describe the process of External PSC deployment. 1.The first step is to download the vCSA ISO image and mount it for instance to your desktop. Inside the ISO image go to D:\vcsa-ui-installer\win32 and run the installer.exe. 2. Then we choose the Install option, as you can see there are also available such option…

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vSphere 6.5 GA is now available to download!

vSphere 6.5 GA is now available to download!

That’s the day most of us ( or at least me :)) were waiting for. It’s officialy available to download vSphere 6.5 GA. It can be downloaded directly from this page. Documentation can be found here. The most important features are: HTML 5 vSphere Client ProactiveHA Network-Aware DRS vCenter Backup and Restore Auto Deploy integraded with Web Client vSphere Update Manager built-in vCenter Server Appliance. General Storage, NFS and Network enhancements I guess that there aren’t many of you who…

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