ESXi host AD Integrated authentication

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• The benefits of enabling LDAP authentication for ESXi hosts?

  Hello

  We have been and need to justify the advantages and disadvantages of joining ESXi hosts to Active Directory?

  Thanks 4 your help.

  I see a benefit for sure you can assign complete administrative privileges to individual users in a group. If you assume a group of 10 directors of ESX, individual users can connect to the host via LDAP. Will they make changes or crash the system, you will know who did it. You can follow the verification very easily using this method. Otherwise, everyone will connect as root, and we do not know who is to blame when something crashed, etc.

  It's pretty easy to join the ESXi host in AD and I don't see any problem that I respect. It is individual decision whether to implement or not.

• LDAP authentication for ESXi hosts

  Hi all

  I want to authenticate ESXi hosts only against an AD domain and I discovered a few procedures already.

  I have a doubt on one point: is - this required to join each ESXi to the domain? Does this mean that I need to create an AD for each ESXi object.

  Many thanks in advance,

  Daniele

  I believe all you need to do is create a DNS pointing to the ESXi host record and make sure your ESXi host name is a COMPLETE (host.domain.com) domain name.

• Change of identification 5.0 ESXi Hosts DNS

  I have a 5.0 vSphere infrastructure not integrated with Active Directory.

  Either the vCenter and ESXi hosts have a DNS identification that uses a domain name that is identical to an existing Active Directory domain.

  To avoid potential conflicts, I plan to change the domain name in the DNS configuration, as described on page 74 of the manual on the https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-501-networking-guide.pdf page.

  Can I just change the DNS domain name without having to restart ESXi hosts?

  The domain name DNS influence the affiliation of ESXi in a cluster (not integrated into AD)?

  Should I change the name of the DNS domain of the vCenter as well?

  Is there anything else I should consider?

  Concerning

  Marius

  I recommend you change the domain name on all systems related to the vpshere environment.

  Don't forget to also change your dns server DNS records. I guess they are hooked up with the right dns name vCenter?

  otherwise, esx server and vcenter server can not see the other...

• How to get the material status of ESXi host of external surveillance system?

  Hello!

  I've got hardware ESXi host information (for example, CPU, disk, etc.)

  that I want back outside a vCenter/ESXi for an external monitoring system.

  I really really slighty possible via Powershell saw...

  Thanks for your help!

  Hello

  the link that I commented, explian how to monitor the status of the ESXi hardware by using the cmdlets for powershell CIM 3.0.

  Not the virtual machines

  This, will you?

  Check this code from the link, you should notice that connects to an esxi host, not virtual machines:

  import-moduleCimCmdlets

  2	$ipaddress="10.20.177.15"

  3	$HostUsername="root"

  4	$CIOpt= New-CimSessionOption-SkipCACheck -SkipCNCheck -SkipRevocationCheck -EncodingUtf8-UseSsl

  5	$Session= New-CimSession-Authentication Basic -Credential $HostUsername -ComputerName $Ipaddress -port 443-SessionOption$CIOpt

  6	Get-CimInstance-CimSession$Session-ClassNameCIM_Fan

  Best regards

  Pablo

• Remove a datacenter inventory ESXi host

  Hello

  I have a pretty simple question, but it is very important. I have two machines to esxi host attached to the inventory of our vcenter data center. The two hosts have important living machines running on them and they all have both need to be removed from the inventory of the data center. It is extremely important that these virtual machines will remain during the working process.

  I understand that this is a fairly simple process to remove the host from the data center. It's just a matter of right-clicking on the host and pressing 'disconnect' first and 'delete' after, but I need to make sure that this is in no way will affect the virtual machines live running on each host.

  We have no HA or replication in place an all the vm are just the self-governments.

  There will be no impact on Virtual Machines. Only the impact will be in photo if you gave permission to any user on vcenter AD authentication. That can be removed. Otherwise there will be no impact on the virtual machines or the host. Also check if there not a shared storage are used. Otherwise, everything will work like a charm.

• 5.1 ESXI host disconnects the vcenter, when reconnected SSL fingerprint has changed.

  I'm having a strange problem with only 1 of the 5 hosts connected to a cluster inside of vcenter. A host disconnects randomly vcenter.

  I right click on the host and select Connect. I get the default value to the warning that 'reconnect a host will replace any change in management of resources that have been made directly on the host... ". ». I select Yes.

  Then, I get an error

  The authenticity of the host SSL certificate is not verified. This option is to close.

  I am taken to the add hosts Wizard. where can I enter the password IP and root to add the host to the cluster.

  Now, I get a security alert:

  "Impossible to verify the authenticity of the host: the SHA1 of the certificate fingerprint is:

  The fingerprint shown is different every time I add this host.

  I worked through vmware following popular KB with no resolution.

  VMware KB: Diagnose an ESXi/ESX host that is disconnected or not responding do not in vCenter Server

  VMware KB: ESXi/ESX host disconnects from the server vCenter Server after you add or connect to the inventor

  VMware KB: Troubleshooting network and TCP/UDP port on ESX/ESXi connectivity problems y

  We have tried, replacing the network card management network is on, replace the cables, the port of the switch, that this machine is connected, completely reinstall esxi switch. Nothing has solved this problem.

  Someone at - it other things to try?

  It turns out that the problem is that our agile took place of the intellectual property that it wasn't supposed to and it's a double that esxi host IP. Very strange behavior. But it's the solution.

• Need help PowerCLI with recovery ESXi host Asset Tag Info

  In the hope that someone, anyone, will be able to help me understand what I can do wrong and how to use PowerCLI to retrieve valid ESXi host Asset Tag information that appears in the tab material status vCenter. I have absolutely no problem of recovery of the serial numbers of host (sometimes referred to as Service Tags), manufacture, model, part, build, etc., but don't can't seem to be able to interrogate the current numbers of inventory number .

  None of the following attributes or property values currently returned the information required and which exists (see image below):

  Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo [0]. IdentifierValue

  Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo [1]. IdentifierValue

  Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo [2]. IdentifierValue

  Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo | where {$_.} IdentifierType.Key - eq "assettag" IdentifierValue})

  

  This is the script that I am running. I used PowerCLI Version 5.1:

  $VIServer = 'enter vCenter Server Name'

  
  # Add component snap kernel PowerCLI
  If (!) () Get-pssnapin-name VMware.VimAutomation.Core - erroraction silentlycontinue)) {}
  Add-pssnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core
  }

  SE connect-VIServer $VIServer

  $HostReport = @)

  $VMH = get-VMHost | Get-View | % {}

  $Report = "" | Select the host name, Version, build, manufacture, model, series, Asset Tag

  $Report.Hostname = $_. Name

  $Report.version = $_. Config.Product.Version

  $Report.Build = $_. Config.Product.Build

  $Report.manufacture = $_. Hardware.SystemInfo.Vendor

  $Report.Model = $_. Hardware.SystemInfo.Model

  $Report.Serial = $_. Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo [0]. IdentifierValue

  $ Tag = Report.Asset?

  $HostReport += $Report
  
  }

  $HostReport | Export-Csv «.\HostReport.csv"- NoTypeInformation

  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  Ron thx.

  As far as I know, has nothing to do with PowerCLI, this is how vCenter gets this information, and how and where some HW providers make this information available.

  With the interface of the CIM, you can dump all the available information and then find exactly the tag died murdered.

  See what this returns

  import-module CimCmdlets$esxiHostname = "MyESXiServer"$HostUsername = "root"$CIOpt = New-CimSessionOption -SkipCACheck -SkipCNCheck -SkipRevocationCheck -Encoding Utf8 -UseSsl$Session = New-CimSession -Authentication Basic -Credential $HostUsername -ComputerName $esxiHostname -port 443 -SessionOption $CIOptGet-CimInstance -CimSession $Session -ClassName CIM_Chassis
  

  You will be asked the password root ESXi.

  On some of our older IBM HW, I get the following where we expect the identification sticker.

  

  But the information is there, just to another property.

  As we have already mentioned our VMworld session, exploring the CIM API.

  There is a lot of information in there

• ESXI hosts 5-2 and the best way to configure vSwitch and Nic redundancy

  Hi all

  Could someone help me find the best way to configure the vNetwork on 2 5 ESXI host for redundancy.  Once I managed to correctly configure the 2 hosts I will seek to use the same installation process for 6 guests.  3 sites with 2 hosts on each site managed all of vCentre Server

  I have 2 DL380 G7 servers 5 ESXI installed on a class 10, 8 GB SD card, I'm looking to install VSA on the 2 hosts on each server with 4 TB of internal storage (8 * 600 GB 10 k SAS).  Each server has a gigabit integrated 4-port NIC and I installed a 2nd NIC gigabit PCIe 4 ports, I also x 2 16 switches of port with Layer 3 routing.  I use vSphere 5 Standard acceleration Kit I am looking to use vCentre server for managing, vMotion for maintenance, HA for the failover and VM 10/15 (vCentre Server Std, DB SQL to vCentre Server, Exchange 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, IIS Intranet, Helpdesk, 1 DC, 2 Domain Controller, AV Server, WSUS, SCCM Server, and Terminal Server server).

  What would be the best way to install and configure the network for performance and redundancy and am I missing something?

  My thoughts are, Teaming: -.

  vCenter - vswitch0 - port1 on NIC1 and port1 on NIC 2 - port1 on NIC1 to physical switch 1 - port1 on NIC2 to physical switch 2

  vMotion - vswitch1 - port2 on NIC1 and port2on NIC 2 - port2 on NIC1 to physical switch 1 - port2 on NIC2 to physical switch 2

  HA - vswitch3 - port3 on NIC1 and port3on NIC 2 - port3 on NIC1 physics 1 - port3 on NIC2 to physical switch 2 switch

  VM - vswitch4 - port4 on NIC1 and port4on NIC 2 - port4 on NIC1 to physical switch 1 - port4 on NIC2 to physical switch 2

  or do I need an additional NIC on each server to hit the VM 12-6 VM for 2 ports on 2 NETWORK interface card, or maybe something else I missed?

  Thank you

  In your case, to keep it simple and what I can say here is what would be my recommendation:

  3 standard vSwitches

  vSwitch0:

  • Management - vmnic0, vmnic2

  vSwitch1:

  • vMotion - vmnic1, vmnic3

  vSwitch2:

  • VM network - vmnic4, vmnic5, vmnic6, vmnic7

  The only reason why that I didn't split the VM in other network adapters shipped is because the difference in the types of the DL380 adapter shipped and the PCIe quad.

• Adding groups of ads to 5 ESXi hosts?

  Hi all

  does anyone know how to add Active Directory groups to the ESXi 5 host? Or is it limited to the Admins ESX group as in ESXi 4.1?

  Can't find anything about this in the documentation, it ends with the addition of the ESXi host to Active Directory.

  Thank you

  gongi68

  Check the link for the ESXi step by step with AD below... the version show this is ESXi 4.1, but it even works in ESXI 5 too.

  http://technodrone.blogspot.com/2010/07/ESXi-41-Active-Directory-integration.html

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• Disconnected ESXi host cannot reconnect to VCenter

  ESXi 4.0.0 Releasebuild-261974

  VCenter 4.0.0 build 162856

  VSphere 4.0.0 build 162856

  I have a host on the 16 who became disconnected from VCenter recently. I spent some time online means to join new host in VCenter, but each has failed so far. I'm not avoiding perform a reboot of the host due to production VMS are residing thereon. Also, I can't access the Web page for the host, which works very well for the other guests, we have running: https://

  I am able to ping both the IP address and the name of FQDN of the host successfully.

  I did the following things in the hope of resolving, who all have failed:

  1 restart the Management Agents on ESXi host from the windows of the customization of the system.

  2. test the management successfully and rebooted network management network

  3A tried to reconnect to the host via VSphere

  4 registered and the Mode of Support Tech executed the following command: /sbin/services.sh restart when I run this command, I notice that the vmware-aam service does not start.

  Error messages:

  1. (in an attempt restore the link) cannot communicate with the specified host. The host may not be available on the network, may have a network configuration problem, or that the management on this host services may not respond.

  2 (of the newspaper of the Management Agent) panic HttpNfcSvc another process is listning IDE oucederomsurlesecondport 12001; Please ensure that another instantiation of pass run; Cannot initialize the service of httpnfc.

  3. (journal of the VirtualCenter Agent) 0x1499bb90 error 'App' could not discover the ofr is authenticating with host agent version. ; could not resolve version ofr is authenticating with host agent. ; Temporary creation connect spec: localhost:443.

  4. (of the newspaper of the VirtualCenter Agent) 0x1499bb90 error 'App' SSLStreamImp::BIORead (0x2e408bb0) has expired; SSL connection failed with error BIO

  [5 (journal of the VirtualCenter Agent) HttpUtil::ExecuteRequest] error in sending request - SSL Exception: transfer the SSL expired local: 127.0.01:63355 peer: 127.0.0.1:443

  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Let me know if you need to work as well with more information.

  Thank you!

  BOE

  It is an ugly one. At least a restart if not re-install. To minimize downtime, you can close out of virtual machines to the inventory and put them on another host/cluster.

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• Patrol reads on ESXi host

  I have a R710 and a R420 two 5.5 ESXi running. I also have a R310 running Windows 2012 R2 for execution of vCenter.

  The R420 has a PERC H710 with a RAID 5 array. Since the iDRAC 7 web interface, I see the controller runs each week patrol reads.

  The R710 has a PERC H700 controller with an array of RAID 6. There only iDRAC 6, so I can't say if patrol readings are performed in the iDRAC web interface. If it is a Windows Server, I install Dell OpenManage and check from there.

  Question No. 1: What is the best way, on an ESXi host, to see if the patrol reads are implemented, and how I can put them up?

  Question 2: Are the patrol reads enough to ensure the integrity of data / avoid bit rot? Or is there another consistency check should I do?

  Hello

  QCCS

  Question No. 1: What is the best way, on an ESXi host, to see if the patrol reads are implemented, and how I can put them up?

  OMSA can be used to see what is currently configured and modify the configuration. Under the main section of storage in the left pane, you will see the broad duties of controller. One of the drop downs must change the patrol read behavior. You can also display the current setting on this screen.

  QCCS

  Question 2: Are the patrol reads enough to ensure the integrity of data / avoid bit rot? Or is there another consistency check should I do?

  Patrol read is a sector check. It tests the physical sectors and mark bad sectors so that they are not used. If he spots a bad sector, it will rewrite data to a good sector. By default, the controller runs patrol bed every 7 days.

  A consistency check is a data integrity control. He checks the data on the table for it. If an inconsistency is found it will correct the inconsistency with redundant data. Consistency checks are not automated. It is recommended that you run them once a month. You should expect a reduction of 30% of the performance when a consistency check is performed.

  In short, patrol reads are physical controls and consistency checks are logical checks. This document is old, but it is still relevant explain the patrol reads as follows:

  http://www.Dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20050212-Habas.PDF

  Thank you

• Mac OS x won't start on mac pro esxi host

  We have the latest mac pro machine functioning as a construction of host 5.5.0 esxi 2718055.  We have setup the virtual Mac machine of the as a waiter in a magic triangle to our Mac OSX windows domain configuration.  Everything was up and running for some time now not really used because we delayed the purchase of our projected deployment Mac until this year.  I logged on today, and he says he has several updates and necessary to restart, so we issued the command reboot. Now the machine won't start upward.  It starts the boot process you see the Apple logo and progress bar starts moving on a 1/4 of the way and then it just turned off. I tried several of the commands below in the link, but nothing works, it just turns off. I tried to use my mac with vm ware fusion and the connection to the host and always change. I have triple checked that I am in the comments window active when you press these commands, but the problem is it only stays on during approximately 5 seconds then stops. I have removed from the inventory of esxi and re added, as well as restarted the ESXi host as well.  The virtual machine is sitting on the local storage of the esxi server.

  https://support.Apple.com/en-AU/HT201255

  Has anyone else had a problem similar to this?  I'm getting to this section and the progress bar starts to go, but then stops and turns off virtual machine.  How can I enter in address this further.

  

  Okay, so I went through the list and now I got using the command option r. tried before but maybe I press the keys long enough.  I was using my mac book pro and pro fusion to do all this. Couldn't make it work when you use the client heavy vsphere on my windows machine. Repair disk permissions is grayed out. I ran check disk permissions and got a ton of errors, ran check disk and he stopped saying repair the disk. Ran repair disk and he stopped to say that he cannot repair the disk, backup as many files as possible, reformat the drive and restore your backup files.

  Is there another way to try to fix this sucker, or is he at this point a POS and build a new one?

  

  

• 8.3 OMSA @ ESXi 6.0 U2 @ R515-> cannot log into the website OMSA to ESXi HOST.--

  Hello guys.

  I've updated my ESXi of U3 5.0 to 6.0 U2 and I lost my OMSA. I can not connect from the web page.

  For the update of the host, I used this ISO file:
  . VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0.update02-3620759.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A00.iso

  After that, I installed OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-WINX64-8.3.0-1908_A00. EXE to a VM W2012S to this host. I can open the web site to connect, but when I try to connect to my ESXi HOST, I received this message: failed to connect... connection error.

  When I saw that I began to check a few things, I ran: 'list of vib software esxcli' and I saw:
  Name Version Date seller installation acceptance level
  ----------------------------- ----------------------------------- ------ ---------------- ------------
  ...
  OpenManage 8.3.0.ESXi600-0000 Dell PartnerSupported 2016-07-29
  Reference Dell-configuration-vib 6.0 - 2A 00 Dell PartnerSupported 2016-07-29
  iSM 2.3.0.ESXi600 - 0000 Dell PartnerSupported 2016-07-29
  ...

  Another very strange for me, is that I can't see any reading of the sensors to Interface web server: HOST /... / or Vsphere Client.
  But I can read a large number of web page Idrac and ESXi SSH data using ' esxcli ipmi sdr list material.
  Node-sensor Description-reading raw reading of raw Timestamp/comment base calculated entity Instance
  ----------- --------------------------------- --------------- ---------------- ----------- ----------- ------------------- ---
  0.1 1 Temp 3.1 processor 38 degrees C 166 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.2 2 Temp 3.2 processor 34 degrees C 162 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.5 power 1 10.1 Temp 40 degrees C 168 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.6 power 2 Temp 10.2 37 degrees C 165 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.7 power Supply 2 Temp ambient 10.2 26 degrees C 154 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.8 power Supply 2 Temp ambient 10.2 28 degrees C 156 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.12 system Board 1 BIO Temp 7.1 44 degrees C 172 2016 - 08-01 T 14: 18:32
  0.14 front Panel Board 1 Temp ambient 12.1 16 degrees C 144 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.13 system Board 1 Temp Planar 7.1 28 degrees C 156 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.10 memory Module 1 Temp 8.1 24 degrees C 152 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.11 memory Module 2 Temp 8.2 36 degrees C 164 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.48 to edge 1 FAN MOD 1A RPM 7.1 2760 RPM 23 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  System to 0.49 to edge 1 FAN 1 b MOD RPM 7.1 0 RPM 0-2016 - 08-01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.50 to edge 1 FAN 2 a MOD RPM 7.1 2760 RPM 23 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.51 to edge 1 FAN 2 b MOD RPM 7.1 0 RPM 0-2016 - 08-01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.52 to edge 1 FAN MOD 3A RPM 7.1 2760 RPM 23 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.53 to edge 1 FAN 3 b MOD RPM 7.1 0 RPM 0-2016 - 08-01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.54 to edge 1 FAN MOD 4A RPM 7.1 2760 RPM 23 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.55 to edge 1 FAN MOD 4 b RPM 7.1 0 RPM 0-2016 - 08-01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.56 to edge 1 FAN MOD 5A RPM 7.1 2760 RPM 23 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0.57 to edge 1 FAN MOD 5 b RPM 7.1 0 RPM 0-2016 - 08-01 T 14: 18:32
  Power supply 0.148 1 1 current 10.1 0.6 amps 15 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  Power 0,149 2 current 10.2 2 0.48 amps 12 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.150 1 power supply 1 10.1 206 Volts 103 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  0.151 power 2 2 10.2 206 Volts 103 2016-08 - 01 T 14: 18:32
  System of 0,152 onboard System 7.1 220 Watts 22 2016-08 - 01 T 14-1 level: 18:32

  The details of the server are:
  BIOS 2.3.0
  IDRAC 2.85 (Build 04)
  Lifecycle controller 1.7.5.4

  Any kind of help to connect to the host ESXi OMSA is welcome!

  This is the correct service.

• Recently added that in environment VMware ESXi hosts do not appear

  I'm running worm vFoglight 6.7. recently, I added 2 new 5.1 ESXi host and 2 data stores into my vsphere cluster. These new fabrics do not appear in vfoglight under dash VMware environment. I tried to update the server vCenter added by re activating the latter. Without success. Could someone help me how to get it to update.

  Give a washer, they can probably find what is happening and turn it on.  It is very rare that I've ever seen an upgrade fails or not be able to recover the worst of him.