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vSphere: Get vCenter events by Powercli

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it is really painful to search for events in vSphere’s vCenter.
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VMware: vCenter VCSA appliance upgrade fails with “Service cannot be started”

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often, when a vCenter VCSA update fails, the error is a certificate missmatch. For example the sso/vmware-stsd service
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VMWare vSphere: Install a custom a certificate in VCSA Appliance

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for a higher security level it is recommended to install own (trusted) certificates in to VMware’s vCenter VCSA appliance.
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VMware vSphere: Join a vCenter VCSA Appliance to an Active directory domain by command line

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the vCenter GUI offers the ability to add an identity provider like Microsoft AD. In some cases this won’t work. For example if you are not a domain admin and you have to specify in which organisation unit the computer object should created. The computerobject should not exists. Delete an already exiting object, it would be created during the join process!
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vCenter: Parameter for generation of ESXi Host certificates

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is a ESXi host part of a cluster then vCenter is responsible for the generation of the host certificates.
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