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ESXi Quick Bit - Add and Remove an ESXi Host from the Active Directory Sometimes you want need to make sure that you can access the host using Active Directory credentials. Joining the Active DirectoryTo join the Host to the Active Directory perform the
ESXi Quit Bit - How to configure the boot order for a EFI VM Currently it is not possible to set the advanced options for the boot order using the vSphere Client, but you can perform the following steps. Remove the VM from Inventory.
Linux Quit Bit - Get a remote Host's Certificate using OpenSSL Sometimes you need the Certificate of a remote host. The following command will help. root@ieibgmgmtvcsa01 [ ~ ]# openssl s_client -connect ben-on-vms.com:443 < /dev/null | openssl x509 -in /dev/
vCenter Troubleshooting Scripts - Who acknowledged the alarm? Sometimes it is good to know who acknowledged an alarm and when. This SQL query should figure this out. As always you can find it on my GitHub: https://github.
vSphere Quick Bit - How to Change the Language in the vSphere UI? Sometimes you need to change the display language of the vSphere Clients. HTML 5 UI (vCenter Server 6.7+)Login to the vSphere ClientClick on you usernameSelect "My Preferences"In
vCenter Quick Bit - My vCenter is not able to talk to my AD Sometimes the vCenter Server is not able to talk to the AD. And all Likewise commands, like /opt/likewise/bin/domainjoin-cli queryFail with an error like Error: LW_ERROR_ERRNO_
ESXi Troubleshooting Scripts - Are my VMs using the Offloading Features I had an SR where I needed to identify what VMs were using LRO and what VMs were not. So as it was a rather big environment with a lot
vBrownBag vBrownBag - A Tale of Trust My vBrownBag Talk just dropped, so I hope you like it. I will post the text version of the demo at a later point in time.
vSphere Home Lab - Use our Root CA for the vCenter Certificate We have no configured our Root CA, and configured our clients to trust it, so I would say it is time to replace the vCenter Server Certificate so we get
Lab Home Lab - Publish your Root CA in your Lab Network In the last blog post we discussed how to add our Root CA to our VMs and we used copy and paste to distribute the certificate. Well this is prone
Lab Home Lab - Add your CA to your CentOS Template Yesterday we created our own Root CA, now we want our CentOS Template to trust the certificates signed by it. As I want to up my PowerCLI Game, we will
Lab Home Lab - Creating a Home Lab Root CA Well everyone knows it, the "dread" of replacing the vCenter Certificates and to be honest it got a lot easier over time. All certificate replacements start at the root of
vSphere Home Lab - Preparing a CentOS 8 Template I am using CentOS for a long time now, and as I am re-building my home lab, it was a no-brainer to use it as my default Linux operating system.
Quick Bit - The difference between FTPS and SFTP Sometimes there is the confusion between the two secure file sharing protocols. They do similar things, and if you are hosting a website the hoster most likely provides both protocols.
SSL Quick Bit - How to replace the ESXi Host Certificates Certificates are always a pain point. So I hope this will help you to just replace the certificates of your vSphere ESXi hosts with one signed by your Enterprise CA.
vSphere Configuring and Testing SNMP on the vCenter Server Appliance Just a quick overview on how to enable and configure SNMP on the vCenter Server Appliance. SSH into the VCSA: ssh root@vcenter67-1.secscout.xyz VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.
OldContent root masquerading in VCSA 6.0 Hi all, I blogged about it in the past on my other blog, which got eaten by the Internet 😉 So as I already (blogged about email notifications in the vCenter
OldContent My VCSA 6.5 does not send emails – Connection refused by [127.0.0.1] This is another issue I see from time to time in Support Requests showing up in my team. This time the DNS settings are fine but the Appliance is still
OldContent My VCSA 6.5 does not send emails Sometimes a VCSA is not able to send emails, as it is not able to validate the sender domain. For example. The vCenter is configured to send an email as
OldContent vCenter 6.5 – Machine_SSL Certificate with multiple DNS Names From time to time it is needed to have multiple DNS Names in your Certificate. First, create a File called machine_ssl.cfg on your vCenter. [req] default_bits = 2048
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