{"id":226,"date":"2010-12-14T14:13:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T19:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2010-12-14T14:13:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T19:13:12","slug":"vsphere-management-assistant-vma-and-active-directory-domain-login","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/virtualization\/vsphere-management-assistant-vma-and-active-directory-domain-login\/","title":{"rendered":"vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) and Active Directory domain login"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little bit of a snob&#8230;I like using my domain credentials on anything I log into.  My favorite ESXi 4.1 feature isn&#8217;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.  I&#8217;ve recently starting poking at resxtop more, which puts me in the vMA more often.  Unfortunately it required that I login using vi-admin, a user name that I typically forgot.<\/p>\n<p>The other day while trying to remember my user name and password I found this article:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vbl0g.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/update-vma-40-to-41.html\">http:\/\/vbl0g.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/update-vma-40-to-41.html<\/a> which describes a simple way to setup AD Authentication inside the vMA.<\/p>\n<p>Verify that you have the latest vMA bits<\/p>\n<pre>vma-update update<\/pre>\n<p>This could take a few minutes to complete if an upgrade is required.<\/p>\n<p>Once you are up to date, you can join AD:<\/p>\n<pre>domainjoin-cli join fully.qualified.domain.name username<\/pre>\n<p>After a reboot you can login with your domain credentials.  The above link also shows how to add AD users\/groups to the sudoers file but I did not do that in my environment. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some additional instructions on using the domainjoin-cli from Likewise:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/archives.likewise.com\/likewise-open\/docs\/domainjoin-cli.8.html\">http:\/\/archives.likewise.com\/likewise-open\/docs\/domainjoin-cli.8.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little bit of a snob&#8230;I like using my domain credentials on anything I log into. My favorite ESXi 4.1 feature isn&#8217;t the storage performance improvement provided by SIOC or VAAI nor is it the added memory compression technology. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/virtualization\/vsphere-management-assistant-vma-and-active-directory-domain-login\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}