In order to allow for installation of a nested Hyper-V on ESXi 5.5, there is a requirement to configure the virtual machine settings once the guest operating system has been deployed. Firstly, we need to add two items to the existing virtual machine configuration file in a powered off state. Prior to making these changes … More Configuring Nested Hyper-V on ESXi 5.5
I was recently configuring Lockdown Mode in my lab environment when I discovered an issue where I could not configure the status on a single ESXi host system where the state was Disabled from the vSphere Web Client and greyed out from the DCUI. I discovered that the symptom was caused as the permissions for the … More Unable to configure Lockdown Mode on an ESXi Host
In order to join ESXi hosts to the domain Likewise agents are used to join to the Active Directory domain and for user authentication requests. In order to troubleshoot Active Directory integration you will need to enable logging of the agent as by default they do not generate a log file. This can be performed … More Enabling logging for Likewise agents in ESXi
I was recently joining ESXi (5.5.0, 1892794) hosts to a domain to which the task would fail with the status ‘Errors in Active Directory operations’. On further investigation of the Likewise agent log on the impacted ESXi host, the following was being written to the log file: ERROR:[SMBSocketReaderMain() /build/mts/release/bora-1471401/likewise/esxi-esxi/src/linux/lwio/server/rdr/socket.c:660] Error when handling SMB socket … More Unable to join ESXi host to the domain – Error when handling SMB socket
In order to change the root password of an ESXi Host using PowerCLI, firstly you will need to connect to the host in question as the root user: Connect-VIServer esxi1.domain.local-User root-Password assdKIUU1235 Now by invoking the ‘Set-VMHostAccount’ cmdlet, we can change the root password as follows: Set-VMHostAccount –UserAccount root –Password 123GHYJ!rys
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