Category Archives: VMware

VMware Workstation, ESXi

VMware vCenter: Get a result set of permissions/privileges for a user on an entity

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sometimes you be known which permissions respectiliy privileges a vSphere User has on an entity.

The vCenter GUI has no such feature but it’s possible by PowerCli and using the AuthorizationManager.
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VMware Powercli: Check and enable CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol

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ESXi has the ability to respond to CDP requests.
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VMware Powercli: Get CDP infos for the Hosts Networkadapter

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if CDP is enabled the networkswitches gives some informations to the ESXi Hosts physical network adapters.

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vSphere: Remove orphaned user from an sso group by command line

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after migrating a vSphere vCenter instance from Windows to the VCSA appliance some (Windows local user which do no longer exists on linux) orphaned user are member of an SSO group.

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VMware Workstation: Using the REST api with powershell

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the most did not know that VMware Workstation has a API interface to dealing with it.
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