Looking to enable SNMP to do some external monitoring on my ESXi Boxen. I took a quick dive into the CLI and found a way to do this. Using our friend putty, I connected to my ESXi host via SSH. I then changed directory to the /etc/vmware/ folder: ~ # cd /etc/vmware/ ESXi 5 doesn’t […]
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I have been using Ubuntu Server to host many of my projects here at home; everything from my media servers, testing systems and web/blog site. I have install the VMware tools in the past and ran into issues or just found them to break. At best I just need the minimal the tools offer, and this […]
I had some time to tinker after an upgrade of my system Wanted to learn something new, and play I found some useful commands The first useful command i could run is to list all registered guest on my host. vim-cmd /vmsvc/getallvms Get power state of a VM vim-cmd /vmsvc/power.getstate <Vimid> From the image above you […]
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ESXi 5.0 Update 1
Resolved / New: No error message is logged when VMkernel stops a virtual machine on a datastore that is in PDL state When a SCSI device goes into permanent device loss (PDL) state, all the virtual machines that use datastores backed by that SCSI device are affected. Some third party HA solutions incorporate a VMX option […]
Here is a quick walkthrough on connecting your ESXi host to an iSCSI target. [Start Now] Connecting to our ESXi server with the vSphere client is go into the configuration tab then storage adapters. Now we need to enable the iSCSI software adapter and click configure. After enabling the software adapter we need to point […]
So you are running ESXi5 standalone in my house or your office. You have a need up patch this baby for the latest in driver support for guest and perhaps for Runing Windows 8 on vSphere 5 Here are a few things you might want to know and do to make this happen Make […]