The ESX console and the VI Client (newly re-branded as vSphere) the two ways to get in to an ESX server. When you have ‘multiple cooks’, it becomes a requirement to be able to track who has done what on the system, and this is where ESX can be tweaked to provide granular authentication. span
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.