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 entire environment. I didn’t write down the name of the…
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 articles and outlined my findings below. Please feel free to…
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 some documentation on the process and have to look at…
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 Communities site. It took awhile to find, so I wanted…
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 some of the vSwitch configuration options you could set. One…