Welcome everyone to this series on vSphere virtual networking. This is going to be a long series due to the vast scope of configuration In this series, we will explore concepts related to vSphere virtual net possibilities in vSphere virtual networking. The reason of doing this series is basically to let everyone (specially beginners) understand … Continue reading Uncovering vSphere virtual networking Part-1: Basics
Just think about your patch management process. You may need to reboot your ESXi hosts during the process. Host reboots may not be performed frequently and not all patches require host to be rebooted. However, when activities such as critical patch or driver installation are performed, we may have to reboot the host. Now the … Continue reading What is ESXi Quick Boot?
We will discuss about VMFS filesystem and VMFS locking mechanisms in this post along with VMFS 5 and VMFS 6 characteristics in vSphere 7. Also we will discuss VMFS upgrade possibilities from VMFS 5 to VMFS 6. VMFS 5 VMFS 5 and 6 do share most of the characteristics except few like sub block sizes,drives. … Continue reading VMFS 5/6 and VMFS locking
In continuation to previous post on ESXi 6.5 password policy, Let us understand the changes (if any) in password policy in ESXi 7. I have tried to simplify the ESXi password policy as much as possible. ESXi uses the Linux PAM module pam_passwdqc for password management and control. We can change the required length, character class requirement, or … Continue reading ESXi 7 Password policy
With VMware ESXi 6, password policy require to use more complex passwords. ESXi enforces password requirements for direct access from the DCUI, ESXi Shell, SSH, or the vSphere web Client. In previous versions of ESXi, password complexity changes had to be made by editing the /etc/pam.d/passwd file on each ESXi host.In vSphere 6.0 now this can … Continue reading VMware ESXi 6 password policy
In order to improve security of ESXi host which is being managed by vCenter server centrally, we enable lockdown mode on ESXi hosts.ESXi 5.x and prior:When Lockdown mode is enabled, only the vpxuser has authentication permissions. Other users cannot perform any operations directly on the ESXi host. Lockdown mode forces all operations to be performed … Continue reading Lockdown Mode vSphere 6.0 and 6.5
In this post we will explore managing local users on ESXi host through CLI, GUI and also discuss role management in local ESXi host. The process is identical in ESXi 6.x as well as ESXi 7.x version. For all versions of ESXi, you can see the list of predefined users in the /etc/passwd file. Usually, you should manage … Continue reading How to add, manage local users in ESXi host 6.x & 7.x?
