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VMware vROps 8.6 Hide vCenter Authentication

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 10:48:32 +0000

VMware vROps 8.6 Hide vCenter Authentication

Short hint, when you are configuring VMware vRealize Operations and have as example VMware Identiy Manager in Place or you don’t want that vCenter Users can authenticate directly to the vROps.

When you want to disable this out-of-the box function because you use Role Based Access or IDM as example as the only source of trust here you go:

HPE SSD BUG RPM Installation

Thu, 27 Feb 2020 20:40:38 +0000

I have a customer who is as a lot of them affected by the HPE SAS Solid State Drives Firmware bug, where the Disks will die after 32,768 power-on-hours. More you will find here about the bug. Within this short post I want to show you how to install under SLES 11.

At first you need to find which Disk you have, on the mentioned Website there are two different models (HPE SAS SSD models launched in Late 2015 and HPE SAS SSD models launched in Mid 2017), in this case we had a in Late 2015 DISKs.

Administrator@vsphere usage short hint

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 08:33:39 +0000

I’ve some customers who are using the local Administrator@vsphere for different things like Backup-User, or Reporting things. From my point of view I can’t recommended this and say please create Service-Users for all different topics. Like one user for Backup – in my example something like: _svc_veeam_bck or for Horizon _svc_vdi. Give the local Administrator a good and secure Password, write it down, put it in Keepass or something else and use it only when it’s really needed! This is your last resort to login to your vCenter.