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Recovering an SSL private key from a certificate

How do you restore the private key for a certificate? You may have generated a certificate request, and sent that request to either your internal Microsoft based Certification Authority (CA) or you sent the CSR to an external SSL certificate provider, and now you try and install the CRT (certificate… Continue Reading Recovering an SSL private key from a certificate

Posted on: 7 February 2014 1 January 2021
Author: Christian Wickham
Categories: HowTo, User Guides, Windows
Tags: security, Windows

Default passwords for VMware products

What is the default password for VMware appliance “x” is a question that I get asked a lot when people deploy a new VMware Appliance or system. Here is a list of the default VMware password for the most commonly used applications, plus a link to the guide on this… Continue Reading Default passwords for VMware products

Posted on: 6 February 2014 25 October 2024
Author: Christian Wickham
Categories: HowTo
Tags: security, VMware

SDDC drives mix and match hardware

If you build a cluster for a VMware virtualised infrastructure, you can use almost any compute resource that you have available. Do you want to mix a Dell R710 dual CPU host with 32 GB of RAM with an IBM BladeCenter Hx5 with a single CPU and 96GB – sure,… Continue Reading SDDC drives mix and match hardware

Posted on: 5 February 2014 24 October 2024
Author: Christian Wickham
Categories: Opinion, SDDC, Virtualisation
Tags: Availability, HA, Performance, SDDC, security, VMware, vSphere, Windows