Hello,
I have tried to find documentation for three ESX5.1 services to understand when they should be or need to be used, but have found nothing to help.
I have several ESXi 5.1 hosts managed by vCenter 5.1 (with SSO of course), along with Active Directory set up as an Identity Service.
In addition, I have joined the ESXi 5.1 hosts to the Active Directory Domain to allow AD authentication for direct host management when needed.
All of the above is working fine, however there are three Active Directory related services that are stopped, so I am trying to determine if they really should be running to perform some function that is not obvious to me at the moment.
The three services are:
- Local Security Authentication Server (Active Directory Service)
- Network Login Server (Active Directory Service)
- I/O Redirector (Active Directory Service)
I believe some or all of these services are related to "Likewise" integration in ESXi, but that doesn't really explain what they do, especially since I'm not seeing any issues with authentication.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Rob Ralston