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To authenticate your vCenter users with Active Directory for Single Sign-On (SSO) follow the method below. This will work for VMware vSphere versions 6.0 and 6.5. You will first need join the vCenter server to the domain.
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USB flash media is quite a common way of running the ESXi OS these days. It pays to have a working clone of this media so that in the event of a failure you are quickly back up and running again.
Continue reading “Clone an ESXi installation from a USB flash drive”
Problem:
Recently I wanted to test something with the latest version of VMware Workstation on my test machine that also had Microsoft Hyper-V installed. When trying to start a VM in VMware workstation I received the error ‘VMware Workstation and Hyper-V are not compatible. Remove the Hyper-V role from the system before running VMware Workstation.’
Problem:
I needed to capture all traffic from a particular network port (an IP phone system connected to a Cisco SG300 switch) and mirror this data to a virtual machine in our virtual infrastructure. So effectively I needed to setup port mirroring from a physical network port to a VMWare ESXi virtual machine.
Continue reading “Port mirroring from a Cisco Switch to a virtual machine on a VMWare ESXi host”
Problem:
You want to unmount a datastore in VMware ESXi but can’t because you get an error: ‘Cannot unmount volume ‘Datastore Name: Datastore1 uuid: 5204515c-e09a154d-9e1b-001a14c85540′ because file system is busy. Correct the problem and retry the operation.’
You may also receive the error ‘The resource is in use; Call “HostDatastoreSystem.RemoveDatastore” for object datastoresystem on ESXi failed’
