vSphere – Floppy Drive ‘Won’t Appear’
KB ID 0001020 Problem “It’s 2015 why are you messing around with floppy drives?” I hear you ask! Well for importing certificate requests, and issued certificates from an offline root CA server, it’s still considered best practice to use a virtual floppy drive rather than connect the offline root server to the production network. So today while deploying a PKI infrastructure, I needed to present a floppy drive...
vSphere – Adding a Serial Port to a VM
KB ID 0001039 Problem I wanted to perform command line access to a virtual firewall on my home ESXi server, (a Juniper Firefly vSRX) via a console session. To do that I needed to add a serial port to that VM. Solution 1. From Within the VI client > Select the ESXi Host > Configuration > Security Profile > Firewall Section > Properties. 2. Locate and enable ‘VM serial port connected over network’ > OK. 3....
vSphere – Adding Domain Users/Groups to vCenter
KB ID 0001063 Problem Note: This article is for vSphere 6, for vSphere 7 and vSphere 8 see the following article. vCenter Domain Authentication Despite my best efforts to keep working with the VMware VI client, my recent move to a MAC has finally forced me to start using the web client. So when I rebuilt my vCenter this week, I went out of my way to use that. Note: If you have your vCenter and Platform Services Controller (PSC)...
vSphere Web Client – Options Greyed Out (Cannot install Client Integration Plug-in)
KB ID 0001064 Problem While working on the vSphere Web Client in Google Chrome, I was unable to ‘Open Console’, the option was on the right click menu, but disappeared and was then greyed out after a second or so. Essentially this happens because the plug-in has either not been installed, (from the login page) or a pop-up blocker is stopping the plug-in working. Solution 1. With Chrome there’s an extra hoop to jump...
Replacing the vCenter 5.5 Certificate using Microsoft Certificate Services – Part 1
KB ID 0001076 This article is from long time site supporter: Daniel Newton Problem Assuming you have a Windows PKI (Certificate Services) and want to replace the self signed certificates in vCenter. Solution 1. Firstly, Open the Certification Authority on the PKI Server. 2. Then duplicate the “Web Server Template”</p? 3. Give the certificate a sensible name. 4. Now click on the “Extensions” tab and under “Application Policies” and...