Thursday, March 7, 2019

Dell R640 Servers

Using these as ESXi Hosts

There are a number of things that you want to do if this is a true enterprise environment. You want to manage them as a group. that can be difficult especially in an offline environment.

Dell has lots of services for internet connected servers, but who really wants their credit card processing server touching the internet.

iDrac 9 info

https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/lt/en/ltbsdt1/poweredge-r940/idrac_3.00.00.00_ug/configuring-services-using-web-interface?guid=guid-7bb3e8b1-89f2-4ef5-94ab-146958142354&lang=en-us


VMware Enhanced Authentication not working

If you have accepted the certificates already, you next need to go to:
https://vmware-plugin:8094
and accept the certificate and all should be well. You may have to reload Firefox, but I didn't have to.

Also, if you are using Enterprise signed certificates, You will want to make sure that Firefox will recognize the Enterprise Certificate chain. If you push out your certs via Group Policy, look at the link below to get it working.




I’ve copied Tom’s Article in below to make sure that post doesn’t go away.

Configuring Firefox to use the Windows Certificate Store

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VMware Horizon ADAM Database edits

Making changes to the ADAM Database

There are many reasons why you want to make changes to the ADAM Databse. It is the underlying database that holds the info on Pools, VDI Machines, etc. And this Database FREQUENTLY gets corrupted. I'm not sure why, I'm a big VMware Horizon fan, but man does it get messed up easily.

So to get into it there is a standard procedure that I grabbed from VMware's KB2012377 https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2012377

Windows Server 2008 / 2012

To connect to the View ADAM database:
  1. Log in to one of the View Connection Servers as Domain Administrator.
  2. Click Start > Administrative Tools > ADSI Edit.
  3. In the console window, right-click ADSI Edit and click Connect to.
  4. In the Name field type:

    View ADAM Database
     
  5. Select Select or type a Distinguished Name or Naming Context.
  6. In the field below Select or type a Distinguished Name or Naming Context, type:

    dc=vdi,dc=vmware,dc=int
     
  7. Select Select or type a domain or server.
  8. In the field below Select or type a domain or server, type:

    localhost:389
     
  9. Click OK.
  10. Click View ADAM Database [localhost:389] to expand.
  11. Click DC=vdi,dc=vmware,dc=int to expand.
Note: If you are unable to connect using dc=vdi,dc=vmware,dc=int, try using dc=vdi;dc=vmware;dc=int.
Once in there, you have a number of common tasks that you can do.