Tag: VMware

By: toddalancox Date: August 23, 2018 Categories: Enterprise Computing,Solaris / Illumos Tags: solaris, VMware

You might find yourself needing to run a Solaris 11 host with non-global zones running as a VMWare guest for a number of reasons. Generally, I would run a Solaris zone host on bare metal for production, but it can work under VMWare as well in more limited deployment. Still, this might be more common…

VMWare vCenter VCA Invalid LDAP Credentials Starting Inventory Service

By: toddalancox Date: June 13, 2018 Categories: Enterprise Computing Tags: VMware

I was experiencing a problem with the VMware Inventory Service not starting after restarting our vCenter 6.0 VCA. I needed to reset the LDAP credentials used internally, and followed the VMWare base article 2147280. However, the password that was being generated by the vdcadmin tool had special characters that were not being correctly stored by the…