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

Configuring ESXi for iSCSI Storage Using PowerCLI

Configuring host VMKernel adapters for iSCSI can be a time consuming process. PowerCLI can take away a lot if not all of the effort. Below is an example of using PowerCLI to create …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 10 Aug 2020

Centos Based Certificate Authority For The VMware Lab

A useful thing for a home lab or VMware lab, is a certificate authority. There are Windows based CA’s as well as Linux based and many others. I wanted to take the Linux based …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 27 Jul 2020

Configuring Encrypted vMotion With PowerCLI

Encrypted vMotion is a feature available in vSphere 6.5 onwards. It is something that is always used to secure vMotions of encrypted virtual machines, its a required option, but is …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 9 Jul 2020

Exporting and Importing Active Directory OU Structures

Recently I needed to build out some test Active Directory Forests that resemble production in order to complete some testing. One of the forests contained a significant amount of …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 2 Jul 2020

Creating Virtual Distributed Port Groups Using PowerCLI

I recently needed to create a new Distributed Port Group and set a specific load balancing policy on an existing Distributed Switch. Nothing to exciting, but a task many have to …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 29 Jun 2020

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