In a previous article Enabling vSwitch Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) I discussed enabling CDP on a standard vSwitch using vMA. Today I deployed the vMA 4.1 and started configuring an ESXi 4.1 host — only to find out that vifpinit had been deprecated in 4.1. Here is a slightly updated…
In an earlier post Directory partition has not been backed up [DC=virtualcenter,DC=vmware,DC=int] I suggested a method to backup the VMwareVCMSDS ADAM database. As Joern posted in a comment, this solution could fill up your D: drive. The following code should help cleanup the ESXiBackup folder and only keep one month…
With the help of Alan Renouf’s vCheck (Daily Report) script I recently started noticing an error in my Windows event log on a vCenter server. This directory partition has not been backed up since at least the following number of days. Directory partition: DC=virtualcenter,DC=vmware,DC=int ‘Backup latency interval’ (days): 90 It…
VMware vSphere vCenter Server installs an Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) [aka Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (ADLDS)] instance called VMwareVCMSDS. I have had several problems with this service — one issue with the contents of the directory (see vCenter Migration) and a couple with the actual ADAM/ADLDS instance. In…
From time to time I try to verify that all of my subnet boundaries are properly defined in AD Sites and Services. At some locations this is a little more challenging — especially when a site has many domain controllers. I recently threw together this PowerShell script to look at…