As part of my VMware home lab setup I wanted to be able to run a PowerCLI/PowerShell script to Power On/Off my hosts as required. The first objective was being able to power the hosts on using their IPMI interfaces. Thankfully the Microsoft PowerShell has something that does the job quite nicely called Physical Computer…
Continue reading →This is Part 3A of a series of posts on how to configure VMware vSphere 6.x to use Certificates from Microsoft Windows Server Certificate Services. The following assumes you have completed the steps within Part 1 – Installing Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 Certificate Services and Part 2 – Configuring an Enterprise Root Certificate Authority. The…
Continue reading →This is Part 2 of a series of posts on how to configure VMware vSphere 6.x to use Certificates from Microsoft Windows Server Certificate Services. The following assumes you have completed the steps within Part 1 – Installing Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 Certificate Services. Click Configure Active Directory Certificate Services to run the AD CS…
Continue reading →Ok so the bits and bobs have started to arrive and i have put together one of the hosts and after a little work, i now have one host up and running with he following The components in ESX-Host-1 are:- 1 x SuperMicro MBD-X11SH-LN4F-0 Motherboard (4 x 1GbE, 64GB, Socket 1151, M.2 PCIe, IMPI 2.0,…
Continue reading →I have finally taken the first steps in upgrading my home lab and over the next few posts i’ll go through what I have purchased. I have started with just a single host so i can check all the components, some of which are not the on the official VMware HCL, actually work. At a…
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