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In the twenty third part of our series, we'll go through vSphere Management Assistant. vSphere Management Assistant is a Virtual Appliance released by VMware to help VI Administrators to connect and preform advanced configuration using it through either SSH or VMware CLI. For more information, visit the following portal of VMware:
https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vima/
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1. Different Authentication Policies Actions on vMA:
AD-Auth policy is used for authenticating vMA using AD. By defining AD users as Administrators on vSphere environment, vMA can be used to manage all hosts and vCenter server by adding all of them to vMA and then connect vMA to vCenter server to manage all hosts. This can’t be easily done using FP-Auth policy as you must add the same Admin user on vCenter and all hosts in the environment, then add them to vMA.
Adding vCenter is useful only for managing all hosts using the same command prompt with changing (--server) variable.
2. Configuring and using vMA with AD Authentication Policy:
1-) After adding required targets to vMA and setting their authentication policy to AD Authentication, logout from (Vi-admin) user and log into vMA with AD user that have Administrator permissions.
2-) Connect to the desired target using vifptarget –s Server_Name.
3-) Use vMA to perform the required tasks.
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