VCF 4.2 On VxRAIL – ‘Validate Thumbprints’
In order to prevent the opportunity of a Man In The Middle (MiTM) attack VMware have introduced a security feature which validates the SSH RSA fingerprint and SSL thumbprint of […]
VMware ESXi – Monitoring Tasks VIA CLI
The following post details how to view task information via CLI on an ESXi host. Task details such as: Snapshot operations, for example create/delete/consolidate Clone operations As can be seen […]
VCF ON VXRAIL – NSX-T PASSWORD MANAGEMENT (Expired p/w)
By default NSX-T user passwords (NSX-T Manager: root & admin | NSX-T Edge: root, admin & audit) expire after 90 days. In a VCF On VxRail environment it is good […]
VCF ON VXRAIL – NSX-T MANAGER ENABLE SSH
By default SSH is disabled on the NSX-T managers. To enable SSH open the NSX-T Manager VM console from the vSphere client: Log in to the CLI as admin and […]
VxRail iDRAC – Get Sysinfo Via SSH
One method of pulling useful VxRail node details such as: VxRail Model Hostname ESXi version Service tag details NIC MAC Addresses VMkernel interfaces Firmware details Is via connecting directly to […]
VMware VCSA – How to Determine Build Number
One quick method to discover your VCSA build number is to run the following command from an ssh console: vpxd -v You can then lookup your vCenter version from the […]
vSphere VCSA 6.x – Enabling Bash Shell (SCP Access)
This post was a result of requiring access to the VCSA BASH Shell console in order to perform such functions as certificate-manager (/usr/lib/vmware-vmca/bin/certificate-manager). The default Shell access when you initially login to […]
VMware PowerCLI – Enable/Disable SSH Per vSphere Cluster
The following script allows the user to Enable/Disable SSH at a per vSphere cluster level. You may download the ‘SSH.ps1‘ script here: SSH.ps1 (Remove the .doc extension). The script will begin by prompting you to […]
EMC VNXe – Shutdown Procedure
Shutdown via UNISPHERE using the Service Account Please read all notes provided in the ‘More Information..’ section highlighted in the above image before proceeding with shutdown. Shutdown process as documented […]
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