Today i came across an issue, where at vCenter Server level smart card authentication was enabled only and username and password based authentication was disabled. Due to smart card unavailability user was enable to login. I am going to share the procedure used by me to fix this issue (Where the requirement was to disable smart card authentication and enable password based authentication) 1. Login to vCenter Server through SSH client 2. Now execute this command to enable password based authentication sso-config.sh -set_authn_policy -pwdAuthn true -t tenant_name sso-config.sh -set_authn_policy ..read more

Challenges of Image Management Typical organizations may have five to 15 unique image payloads as source material for provisioned VMs. Given large deployments, organizations may have to manage significant number of copies (five to 20 or more) per unique image, resulting in 25-100+ image objects in the environment. Often these images need to be updated once or twice a week to keep up with security and application updates, this means 10-30 updates per week in the best case. Orchestrating the workflow to produce, validate and publish images and then to replicate and acclimate them to all the dif ..read more

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Yesterday, I have noticed that VMware Product Interoperability Matrix website is updated, It is now offering better experience to all VMware Customers. https://interopmatrix.vmware.com/ This website has three sections: 1. Interoperability - This option is available to check two different VMware Solutions Compatibility 2. Solution/Database Interoperability - This option is available to check Specific VMware Solution Compatibility with Database  3. Upgrade Path - This option is know, from which version of VMware Solution upgrade is possible to the next version ..read more