To enable SSH for ESXi 6.0: Login to vCenter Server as a user with administrative privileges (e.g. administrator@vsphere.local) Go to Hosts and Clusters and select the ESXi host. Go to Manage > Settings > Security Profile > Services. Click Edit and select SSH daemon. Click Start to enable SSH service and status changes to Running. For […]
Month: February 2016
HA Error: The number of heartbeat datastores for host is 1, which is less than required: 2
vSphere HA displayed a warning message as shown below in the screenshot; the error is because only 1 datastore is provisioned to the hosts in the cluster and there is no redundancy in shared storage to allow for datastore heartbeating. To resolve this issue, the best practice is to provision additional datastore to the cluster. […]
vSphere 6 – Edit the vCenter Single Sign-On Password Policy
I have come across a message in vCenter with regards to SSO domain administrator password expiring in 10 days. The default value for “Maximum lifetime” is 90 days; change this value to edit the password expiry. I entered 365 so the password will expire in one year but if you want to make sure that […]