Archive for April 11, 2013

Configure Bulk Licensing

Bulk Licensing Feature of vSphere is especially useful when ESXi servers are deployed by AutoDeploy. As there is not option to specify the license key via Host Profile, Administrator must manually attach license to ESXi Servers.

Bulk Licensing allows administrator to use pre-defined license keys to ESXi server automatically including AutoDeployed ESXi server.

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Create a custom ESXi Firewall service

ESXi Server has a built-in Firewall to protect your ESXi Server.
There are pre-defined services (source and destination TCP/UDP Port) that you can configure via vSphere Client or CLI, such as permitting or restricting SSH from specified IP Address or Network. These pre-defined services should be sufficient for most of environment.
However there may be a case that you wish to create a custom service, for example when you install a third-party plugin and it uses TCP/UDP that is not defined in the pre-defined list.

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