ESX/ESXi is a great way to truly utilize the powerful hardware that is available out there. With the introduction of ESXi, VMware has ‘pulled a Microsoft’ by offering ESX for free to the masses in an attempt to anchor their stranglehold on the virtualization market. ESXi 4, with VMware’s vSphere client, works on a broad
SSH access to the console of an ESXi system is disabled by default as it is considered an ‘unsupported’ feature. To enable it, there are just a few simple steps: At the ESXi console, hit ALT-F1 to change to the console window Type in the word ‘unsupported’ and enter. You will not see anything echoed
AIX can be integrated in to Active Directory in two ways: via Samba’s winbind directly as a Windows machine, and indirectly via LDAP. The winbind configuration was already covered in a previous posting and worked rather well. However, because of GE’s requirements, it was not possible to utilize the winbind method for Active Directory integration.