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vSphere High Performance Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from   vSphere High Performance Cookbook - Second Edition Recipes to tune your vSphere for maximum performance

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786464620
Length 338 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Christopher Kusek Christopher Kusek
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Prasenjit Sarkar Prasenjit Sarkar
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Kevin Elder Kevin Elder
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Preface 1. CPU Performance Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Memory Performance Design 3. Networking Performance Design 4. DRS, SDRS, and Resource Control Design 5. vSphere Cluster Design 6. Storage Performance Design 7. Designing vCenter on Windows for Best Performance 8. Designing VCSA for Best Performance 9. Virtual Machine and Virtual Environment Performance Design 10. Performance Tools

Adding VCSA to your Windows domain and adding users


If your company runs on a Microsoft Active Directory (AD) domain, then allowing administrators to use their AD credentials to access the VCSA is critical to the security of the VCSA as well as simplifying admin access. When you add your VCSA to the AD domain, you can give permissions to AD groups, then manage the membership in AD instead of the VCSA.

When running the vCenter Server on Windows, this process is very straightforward as the vCenter Server is most likely already joined to the AD domain. Since the VCSA is Linux-based, it most likely will not be joined to the AD domain.

If you are running an external PSC, then the PSC will be added to the AD domain instead of the VCSA. In this recipe, we will join the PSC to the AD domain, then set up user authentication to the AD domain.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running VCSA that has network access to an AD domain and vSphere Web Client. No other prerequisites are...

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