*** Please note, I am not in any ESX4+ beta programme, so anything I write below is not covered by an NDA. I found this openly published on the internet *** Following my last post about ESX and AD authentication, I have been investigating how I could refine things. This caused me to take a […]
Following on from my last post about kickstart scripts which looked at partitioning, this one concentrates on user account provisioning. There are lots of useful guides online about how to configure user accounts, however none that fitted all my requirements. So nothing below is groundbreakingly new, but it does demonstrate a complete working solution. I […]
This precis is a handy little guide to using the premier vSphere performance tools – esxtop and vscsiStats. These are some of the most useful tools in a VMware administrator’s arsenal, but as most people don’t need to use them daily, it can be difficult to remember what’s important. The card was inspired by Duncan […]
I’ve been creating a new kickstart script, to automate ESX 4 deployments. There were a couple of pieces missing that I couldn’t find a good solution to online. This was the first. Hopefully recording it here might save someone else a bit of time. Before I start, I would like to point everyone to this […]