Installed VMware tools using my previous article at http://enterpriseadmins.org/blog/?p=133 Once the tools were install I shutdown the virtual machine and changed the Guest OS from ‘Other Linux (64-bit)’ to ‘Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64-bit)’. Once I had switched to a supported OS, I was able to add a VMXNET3…
I’m a little bit of a snob…I like using my domain credentials on anything I log into. My favorite ESXi 4.1 feature isn’t the storage performance improvement provided by SIOC or VAAI nor is it the added memory compression technology. Instead, I like using my domain credentials for host authentication.…
In one vSphere environment I support we do not use templates to deploy virtual machines. Instead, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit is used. This allows both physical and virtual servers to be created using the same process and improves overall standardization of the customers network. After several dozen Windows 2008 R2 servers…
I have been using the vCheck v5 for several months and have nothing but good things to say about it. The script has helped me find and resolve several issues in the environments I maintain. There are a few additional checks that I have come up with myself, but I…
Several times I have ran into the following issue with an event being logged in the vCenter Server event log every minute: Active Directory Web Services encountered an error while reading the settings for the specified Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services instance. Active Directory Web Services will retry this operation…