Thursday, March 19, 2009

NetApp / ESXi root keypair files

The following sites helped me create the files needed to perform password free logins from my management system to my NetApp filers and ESXi VMHost servers:

First download Putty and required utilities:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Read this article on creating the keypair files for your ESXi server:
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8890

It's a little vague on modifying the oem.tgz so this size helps with that:
http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/customize_oem_tgz.php

Read this NetApp Now (login required) article to to setup on your filer:
https://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=kb34920

Read this doc on Pageant:
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/Chapter9.html#pageant

Let me know if you have any questions.

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