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  • Configuring VMware App Volumes Manager

    Prerequisites At least one App Volumes Manager should be installed before following this page. Here is the page for Installing VMware App Volumes Manager. Ensure Domain Name System (DNS) records exist for forward and reverse look up of all servers in the infrastructure. Certificate Requirements Certificates for App Volumes Managers are in Privacy Enhanced Mail…

  • Installing VMware App Volumes Manager

    Certificate Requirements Each App Volumes Manager server needs a machine certificate. If there is going to be a load balancer in front, add the load balanced fully qualified domain name to the Common Name (CN) attribute and each server’s fully qualified domain name to the Subject Alternative Name (SAN) attribute of the certificate. Microsoft SQL…

  • Securing Microsoft SQL Server with Transport Layer Security (TLS) Certificates

    Certificate Requirements If using a single server, the fully qualified domain name is only needed for the Common Name (CN) attribute. If using Always On High Availability, the fully qualified domain name of the individual SQL server needs to be in the CN attribute and the Availability Group Listener fully qualified domain name needs to…

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Aaron Rombaut

Technologist & Writer