Maand: november 2020

Using ADFS with vCenter 7

20 november 2020 VMware
A while ago I wrote an article about using LDAPS to connect vCenter to Active Directory. In that article, I mentioned a second (secure) option to connect to AD: by using ADFS. In this article, I will give you the steps to change your vCenter Identity Provider from Embedded to…

Network Port Diagram vSphere

19 november 2020 VMware
I was troubleshooting an issue with an ESXi host and Update Manager for which I needed the firewall ports. In KB2131180 you can find a PDF document with a beautiful diagram and reference table. But getting all the required ports between a specific source and destination was not easy. So…

Windows Server 2019 customization issue

5 november 2020 PowerCli Solutions VMware
I was asked by a colleague to help him with a problem he had customizing a Windows Server 2019 deployment. He had no problem customizing a Window Server 2016 VM so had no idea what the problem was. The first thing I did was a manual deployment. I created a…

Packer and WinRM – mystery resolved

1 november 2020 Solutions VMware
A while ago I started exploring Hashicorp Packer in order to learn more about a new way of creating Windows template VMs. Traditionally, you create a VM, attach the Windows ISO file and of you go… But with Packer, you can define the whole thing in code and store that…