SNMP can be used to automatically retrieve status information from vSphere and ESXi hosts and provide the ability to push this information into a monitoring and management system. You can configure a maximum of four SNMP receivers can be configured per vCenter to send SNMP traps to management systems. To configure SNMP receivers, using the … More Configure SNMP receivers on vCenter Server and ESXi Hosts
In this example I will look at creating an NFS datastore using both esxcfg command line interface and PowerCLI to which I will use the following parameters. Datastore Name: openfiler-nfs2 NFS Host: 10.0.0.6 NFS mount point: /mnt/nfs/nfs2/vmfs/ By connecting to an ESXi hosts console session we can invoke the esxcfg command line interface to create … More Adding NFS storage using the command line interface (CLI) with esxcfg and PowerCLI
Firstly we will need to download the vMA appliance (https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VMA55P01&productId=408) and import the OVF file, configure the deployment settings and power on. Before we start using the vMA we will look at configuring authentication and authorization to simplify the use of the vMA appliance. Configuring Authentication and Authorization for the vMA To simplify executing commands … More Deploying the vMA appliance, authentication and authorization and configuring fastpass
I was recently configuring the Authentication Service on a number of ESXi hosts to join them to an Active Directory domain to manage local user authentication. This is possible using the vSphere Web Client or Client but requires the configuration change to be made on each ESXi host manually and adds an administrative overhead, so lets … More PowerCLI – Joining an ESXi host to an Active Directory domain
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