{"id":1832,"date":"2019-04-12T13:29:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2019-04-12T13:31:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:31:39","slug":"join-active-directory-with-esxi-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/?p=1832","title":{"rendered":"Join ESXi Host to Active Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>This post describes how can you use an active directory account for access in SSH or Web Client to ESXi host.<\/p>\n<h2>Configuration<\/h2>\n<p>From your Active directory Domain, created an AD Group and add members allow to access ESXi server from SSH as well as Web browser desired.\u2028Then, connect as root on web browser to your ESXi host to set this Group.<\/p>\n<pre>https:\/\/MyESXiHostFQDN\/ui\/#\/login<\/pre>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Go to Manage &gt; System &gt; Advanced settings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Change the value &#8220;plugins.hostsvc.esxAdminsGroup&#8221; with your admin&#8217;s Group define earlier on your Active directory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre>In my example, I choose \"Admins ESXi\" as name for this AD group<\/pre>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Go to Manage &gt; Security &amp; users &gt; Authentication<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Join your Active Directory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Join-Domain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1835\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Join-Domain.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Join-Domain.png 590w, https:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Join-Domain-300x121.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRestart the Active directory service\u00a0from ESXi Web client.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Restart-Active-directory-service.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1837\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Restart-Active-directory-service.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1044\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Restart-Active-directory-service.png 1044w, https:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Restart-Active-directory-service-300x44.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Restart-Active-directory-service-768x113.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Restart-Active-directory-service-1024x151.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1044px) 100vw, 1044px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou can do this operation from SSH from your ESXi Host, for more information about this restart, you can follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/1026554?lang=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KB<\/a><\/p>\n<pre># \/etc\/init.d\/lwsmd restart<\/pre>\n<p>Enjoy, you can access to web client as well as SSH session to your ESXi Host.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Note : You can also change the value &#8220;plugins.hostsvc.esxAdminsGroup&#8221; in your ESXi host profile, and apply on all of your ESXi host.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/plugins.hostsvc.esxAdminsGroup-Host-Profile.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1838\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/plugins.hostsvc.esxAdminsGroup-Host-Profile.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1112\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/plugins.hostsvc.esxAdminsGroup-Host-Profile.png 1112w, https:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/plugins.hostsvc.esxAdminsGroup-Host-Profile-300x72.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/plugins.hostsvc.esxAdminsGroup-Host-Profile-768x184.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.purplescreen.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/plugins.hostsvc.esxAdminsGroup-Host-Profile-1024x246.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1112px) 100vw, 1112px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description This post describes how can you use an active directory account for access in SSH or Web Client to ESXi host. 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