Authentication Services - Join domain for ESXi hosts

[mbabu1]

Hi LucD,

We have a few clusters where the hosts don't seem to have joined to a domain under authentication services. 

Is there a script available where a it will join the domain by providing the domain, username and password.

At the moment we have over 100 hosts with this issue.

See attached picture of the settings.

Thanks in advance.

Mo

[mbabu1]

I have found the following from a search:

Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostAuthentication | Set-VMHostAuthentication -JoinDomain "prod.cyberintegration.net/cis/computers/esxi" -Username myusername -Password "mypassword" 

 How can I edit the script to run against a host.csv file which has a list of all the hosts...?

[LucD]

In a loop, something like this

# Assume the CSV has a column with the name HostName

Import-Csv -Path host.csv -PipelineVariable row |
Foreach-Object -Process {
  Get-VMHost -Name $row.HostName| Get-VMHostAuthentication | 
  Set-VMHostAuthentication -JoinDomain "prod.cyberintegration.net/cis/computers/esxi" -Username myusername -Password "mypassword"
}

[mbabu1]

Thanks LucD,

I will give the script a try and report back with feedback.

Another question, is there a script I can run against a vCenter to check all esxi authentication services settings and see what hosts are missing the domains.

Thanks

Mo

[wetnose88 · Accepted solution]

You can refer to this posted by Luc D

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Script-to-get-if-ESXi-host-is-in-AD-or-not/td-p/4...

$report = foreach($vc in $global:DefaultVIServers){

    Get-VMHost -Server $vc | Get-VMHostAuthentication |

    Select @{N='vCenter';E={$vc.Name}},

        @{N='VMHost';E={$_.VMHost.Name}},

        @{N='AD Domain';E={$_.DOmain}}

}

$report | Export-Csv VC-ESXi-AD.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture

[mbabu1]

Thanks, that's worked perfectly.

Many thanks wetnose...legend

Mo