Upgrading VMware vCenter 6.0 appliance with a Windows based Update Manager option
I ran into an interesting situation the other day. When vSphere 6.0 was the hot new product out there, I had converted a client of mine from a…
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How to Upgrade VMware UAG 3.3 to 3.4 (Universal Access Gateway)
VMware released the new Universal Access Gateway (UAG) 3.4 a while ago (What’s New) and I finally got a chance to upgrade my 3.3 appliance to 3.4. Here’s…
How to upgrade your Horizon Infrastructure (7.7 Edition)
Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and just upgrade everything! I recently went through the exercise of looking up all of the various solution components in the…
New Features of VMware UAG 3.4 (Universal Access Gateway)
VMware UAG 3.4 was recently released. I had a chance to deploy it at a client and it was super easy. Well, let’s just say, it’s getting easier…
Missing EMC VxRail nodes; VMware vCenter blissfully unaware.
I logged into my VxRail manager today and found the Overall System Health to be Critical. Yikes! While digging into the Health tab, the VXRAIL manager thinks that…
Don’t neglect the Virtual Machine hardware!
Here’s a quick cautionary tale of a client who let their Virtual Machine Hardware get quite a few cycles out of date. We were setting up a new…
The end of the External VMware PSC.
If you are still running an external Platform Services Controller (PSC), the clock is ticking on it. A recent VMware architecture blog (VMware vSphere Blog) written by Emad…
How to Upgrade VMware App Volumes from 2.14.0 to 2.14.2
This may seem like a small point release and it is BUT there are some really big reliability fixes in it so I would recommend upgrading as soon…
How to get an A+ from Qualys SSLLabs on your Horizon UAG deployment.
So after a recent deployment of VMware’s Universal Access Gateway appliance (v3.3.0), it seems that out of the box, this appliance gets a B grade from SSLLABS.COM. Obviously…