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NSX Manager – Changing Certificates

After installing NSX-T Data Center, the NSX managers and cluster use self-signed certificates. These can and should be replaced with trusted certificates from an enterprise CA. The new certificates can be imported into the UI of the NSX Manager. Unfortunately, replacement is done exclusively via an API call. This can usually be done nicely with utilities such as Postman. However, there are environments that are very restrictive and in which neither an application such as Postman is available nor any other Linux system from which the API calls could be issued.

We will outline how we can do this without any special utilities using only the CURL command directly from the NSX Manager appliance.

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VeeamON Resiliency Summit 2023

On October 24, 16:00 CEST, the VeeamON Resiliency Summit will take place, streamed live online worldwide. We can look forward to the announcement of the Veeam Data Platform 23H2 update.

Furthermore, there will be three tracks of breakout sessions focusing on Veeam Data Platform, Veeam platform extensions and Veeam partner ecosystem.

The Veeam Data Platform 23H2 update includes the latest resiliency features of Veeam Backup & Replication V12.1, Veeam ONE V12.1 and Veeam Recovery Orchestrator v7, as well as updates to AWS v7, Azure v6 and Google v5.

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It’s definitely worth registering, even if you can’t watch the stream online live, as the content will be available on demand later.

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vSAN 8 Update 2 – what’s new on technical level

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to participate in the VMware Exclusive Blogger Early Access Program. This is where VMware experts share news and upcoming features for products before the actual release date.
I would like to thank Pete Kohler and John Nicholson for the feature briefing on the release of vSAN 8 Update 2. I’d also like to thank Heather Haley from VMware’s global communications team and Corey Romero for helping to make it happen.

[This blogpost was under embargo until 22nd of August 5:00 AM PDT (14:00 CEST)]

VMware vSAN 8 Update 2 delivers a range of new features and improvements in flexibility, performance and ease of use.

New ESA Features at a glance

  • vSAN ESA storage-only clusters with vSAN Max
  • VMware Cloud Foundation Support for vSAN ESA in VCF 5.1
  • vSAN file services now available on vSAN ESA
  • New ESA Ready Node Profiles for small environments
  • Support for a new class of read intensive storage devices
  • Auto policy remediation
  • ESA Prescriptive Device Claim
  • Stretched- and 2-node-cluster impovements
  • Up to 500 VMs per host (vs 200 before)
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