Re: Setting a password age policy on ESXi 5.0 (esxcfg-auth now gone)?
Here is the answer to the blanket statement, since it does not make sense to have one, considering the security it has.. Security option is to enable Lockdown mode. Administration is then limited to...
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Please see my original post. I'm fully familiar with Lockdown mode. Our security team want a specific setting. If it is no longer available as an option I will be required to provide evidence to that...
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Re: Setting a password age policy on ESXi 5.0 (esxcfg-auth now gone)?
I'm actually creating an internal company hardening guide for our VMware support team to implement based on the VMware vSphere 5.0 hardening guide and local security requirements. Step 4 of the 'ESXi'...
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which if you use lock down mode and configure users on your vCenter and iLO devices you can as your policy set a domain level will take precedence, you then protect your root password with physical...
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Let me check internally and will keep you posted.. :)... Keep Cheering Tom ;)
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Re: Setting a password age policy on ESXi 5.0 (esxcfg-auth now gone)?
The response is currently we don't support password expiration in ESXi 5. Probably you need to open a SR with VMware support to get the reason.
View ArticleRe: Reset a blade or a down virtual server on a blade?
If you can find your way onto the console of the blade server affected, you should be able to find its IP address, and then in turn log onto that with the vSphere Client and see what's going on. If the...
View ArticleVMs loose network after Vmotion
Hi, This is frequent in my virtual environment, VMs loose network after vmotion.and Once I disconnect and reconnect the vNIC, it fixes the issue.Details below : - VM H\W version = 7Host = ESXi...
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Re: Setting a password age policy on ESXi 5.0 (esxcfg-auth now gone)?
Aakash, Thanks for this response. I'm not familiar with posting on this community (as may be obvious ) and I automatically assumed that posters were all 'users' like myself. Can I assume from your...
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yes Currently password aging policy is not supported on eSXi 5 and no plans are currently on to support it.. You can send a feature request http://www.vmware.com/in/support/policies/feature.html
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Hi, hopefully you will stick around to ask questions and also answer them, a Quick overview on the little icons that are shown against our avatars. the dark grey one with VM on it means that the...
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Aakash, Tom, Thank you very much both. You've been very helpful.
View ArticleRe: VMs loose network after Vmotion
If you have been paying attention to the ESXi host to which the VM's are migrated during your vMotion, do the problems generally occur with the same ESXi host? That could narrow things down. I have...
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Often this issue occurs due to a configuration issue in the physical switch ports. Can you confirm you have spanning-tree portfast [trunk] (this may differ, depending on the switch vendor) configured...
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Hi, Check this KB which talks about this issue http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003969 RegardsMohammed Emaad
View ArticleHELP! vmware won't mount vmfs volume
We recently had a hard disk failure in an esx 4i free host. Long story, but for some reason the failure of a single disk managed to take out the entire raid 5 volume (so much for resilience!)(There is...
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