VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) Resources

Here is a consolidated page on all the articles I have written about the VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance). Hopefully this will be useful when looking for anything related to VCSA.

VCSA 5.5

• New vCenter Server Simulator 2.0 enhancements in VCSA 5.5 
• How to bootstrap vCenter Server onto a single VSAN node Part 1?

VCSA 5.1

• Automating VCSA 5.1 (vCenter Server Appliance) Configurations
• How to Register a vCenter Server 5.0 with Admin Tool on VCSA 5.1 Using SSH Port Forwarding
• Automatically Join Multiple VCSA 5.1 using New vCenter SSO (Single Sign-On)
• Configuring Additional VCSA 5.1 as vSphere Web Client Servers
• Configuring New vSphere Web Client Session Timeout
• Specifying Default Domains for vSphere Web Client Login
• Default Password for vCenter SSO Admin Account on VCSA
• How to Add/Remove vCenter SSO Identity Sources Using the Command-Line for Windows vCenter Server & VCSA 
• VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) 5.1 VCDB & SSODB Password  
• Seperating Out the vCenter SSO, vSphere Web Client and vCenter Server Services Using the VCSA 
• vCenter Server Simulator

VCSA 5.0

• Automating vCenter Server Appliance 5.0 (VCSA) Configurations

Additional Tips/Tricks

• Forwarding vCenter Server Logs to a Syslog Server
• How to Send vCenter Alarm Notification to Growl 
• Changing VCSA Failed Login Attempt & Lock Out Period  
• Getting Rid of the Inventory Tree in the New vSphere Web Client
• vCloud Director Simulator 
• Automating VCSA Network Configurations For Greenfield Deployments  
• Automating SSL Certificate Regeneration in VCSA 5.1 & 5.5 (vCenter Server Appliance)
• How to change the default HTML5 VM console port in vSphere 5.5? - See more at: http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2013/10/how-to-change-default-html5-vm-console.html#sthash.I7qHQEq5.dpuf

  How to change the default HTML5 VM console port in vSphere 5.5?

• Hybrid environment leveraging SSO Multi-Master Replication between vCenter Server for Windows & VCSA
• How to automate NTP configurations on the VCSA using the CLI - See more at: http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2014/02/how-to-automate-ntp-configurations-on.html#sthash.EwHydV3e.dpuf

  How to automate NTP configurations on the VCSA using the CLI