Active Directory

Lab: AD: New Domain

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I thought it would be useful to have an Active Directory lab environment set up for testing different scenarios. This series will look at setting up a fully functioning Active Directory domain using headless servers. The rationale for that is most people don’t have servers lying around to be used for test/dev environments. Chances are, […]

ESXi

Testing VMkernel port connectivity between hosts

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VMkernel ports are used for system traffic for vMotion, IP storage, Fault Tolerance, vSAN, and others. Ensuring inter-connectivity between your hosts on each of these interfaces is an integral requirement for HA Clusters. Communication issues can occur for a number of reasons, but in my experience it is usually due to a misconfiguration of the […]