vCenter Domain Authentication
Mar09

vCenter Domain Authentication

vCenter Domain Authentication KB ID 0001854 Problem Note: This procedure uses vCenter 8.0 Update 2, (the process is the same for vSphere 7). When you setup your VCSA you will have configured SSO, in most cases accepting the default SSO domain of vsphere.local. But If you want to log into VMware you probably want your identify source to be AD (to use you existing usernames and passwords). Note: In this example I will grant...

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VMware:  PowerCLI Errors
Jun12

VMware: PowerCLI Errors

PowerCLI Errors KB ID 0001830 Problem I was doing some work recently and tried to connect to my vCenter server and was greeted with this. PS C:\Users\administrator.PNL> connect-viserver vc-70.pnl.com connect-viserver : Object reference not set to an instance of an object. At line:1 char:1 + connect-viserver vc-70.pnl.com + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Connect-VIServer], NullReferenceException +...

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PowerCLI: Get Snapshot Information
Jun06

PowerCLI: Get Snapshot Information

Get Snapshot Information KB ID 0001829 Problem The question was asked on Experts Exchange today. Are there any scripts or reports that would give me information on VMware VM’s with snapshots? was pretty sure this was a straight forward one, so I jumped on the test network. Solution: Get Snapshot Information Connect to your vCenter and use the following commands. Connect-viserver vCenter-Name THEN AUTHENTICATE Get-VM |...

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ESX: This PC Can’t Run Windows 11
Nov24

ESX: This PC Can’t Run Windows 11

KB ID 0001763 Problem: This PC Can’t Run windows 11 When attempting to install Windows 11 on ESX (in this example vSphere 6.7) you will receive the following error; Windows Setup This PC can’t run Windows 11 This PC doesn’t meet the minimum system requirements to install this version of Windows. For more information, visit https://aka.ms.WindowsSysReq The reason you are seeing this is probably not because you...

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FortiGate DNS: Serving DNS Databases
Aug15

FortiGate DNS: Serving DNS Databases

Fortigate DNS KB ID 0001796 Problem A colleague rang to ask if I had any thoughts about a problem that they were having, we do a lot of VMware VCSA upgrades for customers, the process fails if there is no DNS resolution of the FQDN during the upgrade process. We had tried to fix the problem by creating hosts records (typically we don’t have access to the client’s DNS servers that run in the virtual environment). I had...

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ESX SD Card?
May06

ESX SD Card?

KB ID 0001785 Problem For a while it’s been common knowledge that running ESX 7.x from a server that boots with an SD-Card is a no no. VMware themselves said (originally) that they would not support it. Then they said they would ‘sort of’ support it, if there was additional persistent storage. Then in the past week they’ve said, VMware will continue supporting USB/SD card as a boot device through the vSphere...

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