Windows Active Directory Integration - is it still possible?

[dgwharrison]

Hey all,

I've just been looking into integrating our vmware esxi host into our active directory. I found a vmware official pdf on this for ESX 3, but i can't find any thing for ESX 4. The reason for my post is that i think that VMWare may have removed the feature from ESXi because all the information i can find on it in the 4.0 manuals suggests that you require vShpere Server to do it (which we don't have). That and i can't find a pearl script for the command in the command line tools for ESXi 4.

My question is, is Active Directory integration possible with ESXi 4 without vSphere server?

[AndreTheGiant]

There was some thread about this.

Cause PAM modules are changed there are some issues.

But seems that is still possible:

http://goingvirtual.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/enabling-active-directory-authentication-with-esx-3-5-a...

Andre

[Texiwill]

Hello,

For ESX you can integrate with AD. With ESXi that is still not possible. Instead you use something like HyTrust to get similar functionality.

Best regards,

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