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Top vBlog Voting Results went out

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Full Top vBlog voting results went out on April 1. Pretty awesome day they have selected 😆  .However I assume this was considered as  fool day joke to someone dissatisfied with overall ranking.

However, vBuffer made it to 123 place, thanks to the support of you , the readers and followers ! I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to everybody, who dedicate time and decide to give a vote for vbuffer.com .Thank you .

In other hand as I already committed, and I’ll try to publish interesting ideas and challenges I’m dealing in my daily work .

Stay tuned for more !

Top vBlog 2015 Voting !!!

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topvblog20151smallestLike in beginning of every year  Top vBlog 2015 Voting  started.This is time of the year when your readers, followers, colleagues, lads etc. evaluate your work and vote for your blog.

Although vbuffer.com is only few months old, with only few articles and readers, I decided to give it try and run for niche in category “New Blogger” .I would be happy and appreciate if you support me and give a vote for my blog  :-D. In other hand, I commit to deliver more interesting and quality content for upcoming year .

Likewise , as one of the  Co-Founders, here is good place to mention about my dear fellows TheVirtualists. Over the past year they proof that  can create really strong relationship with their readers and provide interesting quality articles. I strongly encourage you to give your vote and help for  @TheVirtualist  blogging platform and help them get to fair place in overall blog ranking.

Give your support for vBuffer.com and TheVirtualist.org . Vote on official voting page

vCenter Self-Signed Certificates – Part 2

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Well, It’s been quite some time since I wrote Part 1. I wanted to focus on different topics and then come back to certificates but Christmas holidays came and also I’ve been involved in few interesting and quite demanding projects and could not dedicate much on vCenter Self-Signed Certificates Part 2. Although I wrote most of  the”painful” portion of the process, I still think that Microsoft CA way requires proper attention.In this part should to be much shorter than Part 1 but let’s see how it goes.

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vExpert 2015 – Announcements

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Yesterday evening  vExpert2015 was announced. I’m proud to be among 1028 announced virtualization enthusiast worldwide sharing same passion and contribute back to community. Maybe you already know,  vExpert it’s none technical award  for people demonstrated significant contributions to the community and a willingness to share their expertise with others.Where contribution might in many different ways including but not limited to

  • public speakers
  • book authors
  • script writers
  • VMUG leaders
  • VMTN community moderators

Here I would like to take this opportunity and congratulate my dear fellows @TheVirtualists  and wish them same successful year and keep on going with your contribution ! Here are some of the names

I hope I did not forget anyone.

Well done lads, keep on doing great job with TheVirtualist !

vCenter 5.5 service fails to start

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Few days ago when I was preparing vSphere Self-Signed certificates article I found out that vCenter is down. I notice that vCenter 5.5 service fails to start with very “interesting” general error message which did not say much. I haven’t actually used my lab for while and I suspected that something went wrong with my Database. However, I checked all components, Databases, users, passwords and so on but I did not found anything. Only place, I haven’t looked yet was vCenter logs. In order to have fresh generated log and avoid searching in bunch of files I attempt to start service again with of course expected result, failure.

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vCenter Self-Signed Certificates – Part 1

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A month ago I had to upgrade one of our customers vCenter from 5.0 to 5.5. We were suppose to run pilot project and upgrade was part of the requirements. However, upgrade was pretty smooth with no unexpected issues or whatsoever. Of course, when I had all components installed I decided to do quick check, though. Login with C# client did not indicate any unusual behavior or possible error, but when open Web Client I saw error message that Web Client could not connect vCenter.

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