VMware vCloud Air Supported Operating Systems
Andy Steven who is a colleague of mine working in the EMEA vCloud Air team asked me what Operating Systems are supported in VMware vCloud Air? This isn’t the first time I have been asked this question, so I thought I would quickly publish the list, to provide easy reference to lookup which vCloud Air Operating Systems are supported. As most of you know, VMware vCloud Air leverages vCloud Director to enable the cloud capabilities needed to provide a public cloud service. vCloud Director supports a wide variety of 32 bit and 64 bit Operating Systems. vCloud Air Supported Operating Systems The current Operating Systems supported by vCloud Director are: Microsoft Windows Linux Microsoft Windows Server 2012 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Microsoft Windows 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Microsoft Windows 8.1 SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 Microsoft […]
Are you a Server Hugger?
Question: Are you a Server Hugger? This conversation has come up countless times while at conferences, including VMUGs and VMworld. Come on, lets be honest, are you a server hugger? Its mentioned regularly out on twitter. Duncan Epping was live tweeting from the Benelux VMUG and it was mentioned in a session he attended presented by Andy Steven: So lets ask the question again! Are you a server hugger?… I would pretty much say yes you are. Most people who manage IT infrastructure are server huggers. You know you are, so lets just all admit it. I will start. Hello my name is David and I am a server hugger. During a number of my presentations I have given over the years, both myself and Chris Colotti have had this discussion numerous times. Sometimes between ourselves. What actually is a server hugger? Now if you google Server Hugger, the majority […]
Veeam podcast with Rick Vanover and David Hill
Yesterday I recorded a Veeam podcast with Rick Vanover. It was a great honor to be asked by Rick to take part in one of his podcasts. They are extremely popular with the virtualisation community and I want to thank Rick for inviting me on to talk. This podcast is episode number 103 in the series and is titled vCloud Air: Explain it to me. Rick writes a nice introduction: In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts David Hill. David works in Technical Marketing at VMware and is one of the best when it comes to VMware technologies and vCloud Air is what he is focusing on nowadays. Rick and David speak about what vCloud Air is at the high level, how it is priced and how some of the specific storage features like SSD-accelerated storage are used in vCloud Air. The cool thing about Rick’s podcasts is that they are […]
Server Certificate not verified error vCloud Air Plugin
After upgrading the VMware vSphere web client vCloud Air plugin today, I received the error, Server Certificate Not Verified. This error appeared when I was trying to add in my vCloud Air credentials. First you click the register vCloud Air Account Then you enter the credentials However, once you click OK you receive the error: Server Certificate Not Verified This error is actually expected, as the new release of the vCloud Air plugin version 1.5.1 release notes specifically state: Certificate requirement While establishing an SSL connection to vCloud Air, the plug-in verifies the SSL certificate of the site. As part of the installation process, you must download the certificate from https://vchs.vmware.com and add it to the trusted keystore of the vSphere Web Client. If you do not add the certificate, you will be unable to register your vCloud Air account with the plug-in or connect to vCloud Air. The vCloud Air […]