Tag: vSphere
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Building a Nested ESXi Lab for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) (updated 2023-Dec)
Introduction The following post is very long and will contain updates as the technology changes and I figure out better ways to accomplish these tasks. VMware Cloud Foundation, or VCF, requires at least four nodes for the Management Domain. Unfortunately, I do not have hundreds of thousands of dollars for physical hardware to test and…
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Changing the Primary Network Identifier (PNID) on vCenter
Preface This has been occurring to me a lot lately. vCenter gets deployed and configured with a hostname. You are likely not giving it much thought until later when a particular situation arises. When it’s time to upload Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates and you receive the following warning, “Error occurred while fetching tls: Invalid…
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Using PowerCLI in Smart Card Based Environment
ref: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/67789 Problem You work in a hardened environment and you don’t have an administrative username and password because you only have smart cards or tokens. Resolution According to VMware, this is expected behavior. Uh, what? Workaround According to VMware, “Use Windows SSPI to pass through the Windows logged session Smart Card credentials to PowerCLI…