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NSX Manager Account – NSX CLI account – Part-1 (Account Creation)

NSX Manager Account – NSX CLI account – Part-1 (Account Creation)

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Recently I was doing a vROps project that requires monitoring NSX environment as well. VMware has a management pack for NSX that monitor the NSX environment. Once I go through the procedure, I found the roadblock. The vROps management pack for NSX requires (here is how to install and configure vRops MP for NSX) an NSX CLI account. For many companies, it is okay to use the built-in ‘Admin’ account. But for the security point of view, it is not…

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‘HCI Bench’ Comparing Samsung 960EVO vs 850EVO vs SanDisk Extreme

‘HCI Bench’ Comparing Samsung 960EVO vs 850EVO vs SanDisk Extreme

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My new requirement at home become quieter servers or no more home lab (you know what I mean :-)). So, I had to change my Cisco and HP servers to a custom build workstation/server with Super Micro motherboard. For on-board storage, I used SSDs from my old servers and added a new Samsung 960EVO M.2 card on it. After the server build I felt like time to test my 3 different SSDs on board. After reviewing few of the benchmark tools,…

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Cannot log in to the ESXi 6.0 host using Active Directory domain credentials

Cannot log in to the ESXi 6.0 host using Active Directory domain credentials

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After an ESXi v6 host is added to the domain and add domain security group to the ESXi permissions, users might not able to login to ESXi host using domain credential. There can be many reason for this. One of the reasons is that the ldap cache is not big enough to catch require ladp data. /var/log/syslog.log file will have a entry lwsmd: encoded packet size too big (4612 > 4096)To fix the issue, /etc/likewise/openldap/ldap.conf needs to configure. The default…

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VMware App Volumes – Redirect HTTP to HTTPS

VMware App Volumes – Redirect HTTP to HTTPS

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VMware App Volumes communicate throughhttp and https protocol. Since, http sends data in clear text, people like to use https protocol. There are number of VMware KB those describe about how to configure systems for https communication. One of the VMware KBs number 2095972 mentioned how to disable port 80 (http) from manager. But disabling http port give a nasty error 403 /404, while user try to access using http protocol. To make it look better to users, it is…

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App Volumes 2.10 “NTLM Authentication failed for: Domain\user. Virtualization is disabled” (error code 401)

App Volumes 2.10 “NTLM Authentication failed for: Domain\user. Virtualization is disabled” (error code 401)

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VMware introduce NTLM authentication on App Volumes v2.10. It is used to verify the user, computer, and the domain of the agent when it makes HTTP requests to the App Volumes Manager. Unfortunately, this NTLM authentication method causing random Authentication failure when App Volumes Agent trying to communicate to Manager. It generally shows the error message – Error: App Volumes Message Error from Manager <dns name> (error code 401): NTLM Authentication failed for: <Domain\user> Virtualization is disabled Solution: Disabling NTLM…

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