Monthly Archives: June 2010

Check ESXi to see if sshd is listening

In a recent service request with VMware, Tech Support enabled ssh on one of my ESXi hosts. Unfortunately, the outage that prompted my support request impacted multiple hosts in different clusters, so we were looking at many things in the … Continue reading

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Virtualizing a Windows Active Directory Domain Infrastructure

I’ve been thinking about virtualization of production domain controllers.  I have several virtualized DCs in a lab environment and even a very small production/standalone forest (less than 200 users) that only uses a single DC.  I’ve read a bunch of … Continue reading

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Script to Configure SSL on ESX/ESXi

I’ve had to create a bunch of SSL certificates for ESX/ESXi hosts. Its always a pain because there are a bunch of steps and I can’t remember what my company always uses for the Organization name/Organizational unit name. I created … Continue reading

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vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA) tools upgrade

I recently went through and upgraded the VMware Tools on all of my virtual machines.  The only one I couldn’t get to work was my vCenter Mobile Access machine.  After some searching, I finally found this article on the VMware … Continue reading

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Enabling vSwitch Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)

I recently attended the VMware vSphere Troubleshooting course.  It was a very good course and I’d recommend it to anyone responsible for day-to-day maintenance of a virtual infrastructure.  During the course we discussed the vMA (vSphere Management Assistant) and looked at … Continue reading

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