Last night I decided to browse to my vSphere server and download the latest Virtual Infrastructure client, I did this and everything went well – Too easy. After installing this and having a play with vcenter 4, I decided to try web access so I browsed back to the default page as shown below. I clicked on [...]
Archive for June, 2009
For a while now Ive been using Workstation 6 on my laptop for a portable Virtual Infrastructure which can be used for testing and customer demos. I mounted the ISO image and preceeded to upgrade virtual center only to receive the following meanacing error Im taking a guess here but Id say there are tones of [...]
Ive been doing a fair bit of virtualization security lately and I thought id share a few tid bits on what Ive done and why. If y0u find this useful then check back every couple of days as ill be adding additional steps and verifying if these apply to VI3, Vsphere or both. Most of [...]
Enabling Active Directory Authentication with ESX 3.5 and Vsphere
Posted: June 6, 2009 in Tips and Tricks, VMwareRecently I needed to setup AD authentication with ESX 3.5 as part of a security hardening exercise which stated users other then root needed to authenticate against AD rather then using local passwords. Off I went on my quest to enable this which brought me to this VMware document here. After browsing through it and thinking “That looks [...]
I was working on a customers site not long ago and had to set a static MAC address for a Virtual Machine so when it moved between hosts via a manual or DRS initiated migration it would not alter the MAC and in turn break the application that was hardcoded to a particular MAC. I remember [...]
