Administering ESXi Hosts With ESXCLI using PowerCLI

There are times as a vSphere admin, you are going to want to run ESXCLI commands against multiple ESXi Hosts from a central location. This could be for configuration / …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 10 Feb 2021

Deploying vCenter 7.0 via the CLI

Recently I decided it was time to add a second vCenter 7.0 Appliance to my main lab environment after the lab containing my SRM and vSphere Replication installation ceased to …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 27 Jan 2021

Using Tags To Automate The Assigning Of vCenter Object Permissions

Tags are a really useful component in VMware. They can be used for all manor of things, whether it’s for storage policies, backups, identifying a group of objects or in the …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 1 Dec 2020

Change ESXi Host Access Groups With PowerCLI

IT security, accountability and auditability are critical today. Securing vCenter Server using auditable identities, for instance via an Active Directory identity source, is likely …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 4 Nov 2020

SRM 8.3 Certificate Management

Following on from my last post on vSphere 7.0 certificate Management, I wanted to continue with another certificate related post. This one being Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 8.3. …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 28 Oct 2020

vSphere 7.0 Certificate Management

vCenter 7.0 brings many new features, one of which is a much smoother certificate management experience. There are now 4 main ‘modes’ for certificate management. These …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 20 Oct 2020

DFS NameSpace Issues - Migrating From FSR To DFSR Following AD Upgrade

I recently assisted a friend who had an issue with DFS Namespaces following an Active Directory Upgrade from 2008R2 to 2012R2. They were faced with not being able to access the …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 6 Oct 2020

VM and vSAN Encryption

In this day an age, securing data is a must. In this post I’d like to show you two options for protecting your data; vSAN Encryption & VM Encryption. To achieve either of …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 9 Sep 2020

Deploying and Connecting A Key Management Server to vCenter

Is it secure? This has to be one of the first things you consider with any technology solution or decision today. So when I was lucky enough to receive a NFR license from HyTrust …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 24 Aug 2020

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