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To enable active directory authentication on ESX servers you need to do the following...
1. Ensure that it is currently disabled and config is clear before starting:
/usr/sbin/esxcfg-auth --disablead
esxcfg-vswitch -l
For guest OS cutomization to work when deploying from a template, the vCenter server needs to have the sysprep files for that operating system to be able to customize its settings.
If you do not you will get the following error when deploying from a template:
Warning: Windows customization resources were not found on the server
To see the default gateway of VMKernel:
esxcfg-route
To set the default gateway of VMKernel:
esxcfg-route 192.168.1.1
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