Categorie: VCP/VCDX

Today a customer wanted SSH by default on for specific reasons and didn’t like the yellow warning on their ESXi servers. This is how you disable this : First enable SSH : Go to Security Profile –> SSH –> options and enable it. Notice that now you have a yellow warning neir your hosts : […]

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  I’ve been working some time with Veeam Backup & Replication and I’m very pleased about it. At last I found some time to upgrade my V5 to V6… it took about 2 minutes Hereby the steps for the upgrade : Notice that Veeam already sees the previous installation. Hit Yes to upgrade. It’s very […]

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Use this script to gracefully shutdown your servers running on your VMware hosts. (VMware tools has to be installed although) VMLIST=’vmware-cmd -l’ for config in ${VMLIST} do vmware-cmd $config stop trysoft done vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter shutdown -h now […]

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I ran into some problems usingthe VC Client Update Manager. After checking the .ZIP update file it came with an error. The solution, download the .ZIP upgrade file, extract it and copy it to your ESXi server using winscp or VC storage browse Go to the directory where you placed the files and do the […]

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I install my ESXi servers with a pre-compiled version with ESXi with SSH access already enabled. But for the people who don’t, this is how you enable (unsupported!) SSH access to ESXi. Logon to the console (you don’t have SSH access, so this is the only option) Press ALT-F1 and type unsupported (you don’t see […]

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This is just a quick note to describe how you can easily change the vlan ID of the service console in ESX. To remove the vlan id completely, just set it to 0 (in case you have set it by accident on an access port) esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -v 0 -p “Service Console” To set a […]

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When using several VMFS 3 datastores, there is no need to use the VMFS 2 driver. You can unload the driver with the following command : vmkload_mod -u vmfs2 Also, if you are not using (or planning to use) NFS datastores, you can also unload the NFS driver with the following command : vmkload_mod -u […]

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VCDX Defense Defense interviews will be held during the following days: July 5-9, Melbourne, Australia (Application Deadline: May 18) August 23-27, San Francisco, CA (Application Deadline: June 21) October 11-15, Copenhagen, Denmark (Application Deadline: August 2) November 1-5, Cambridge, MA (Application Deadline: Aug 30) Completed applications will be scheduled in the order recieved. […]

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For those people not using the Enterprise Plus license for vSphere : Learn how to use vicfg-cfgbackup.pl — a RCLI command which could be found in the vMA.  This utility will allow you to create a backup and restore a full ESXi configuration.  The commands vicfg-cfgbackup.pl (esxcfg-cfgbackup.pl) allow you to backup and restore the configuration […]

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Although this issue has been resolved with vSphere 4 U1, for those of you that haven’t upgraded please be aware of a known issue with Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 where the guest operating system can freeze for a long period of time.  The issue is noted in VMware KB 1011709. The resolution is […]

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Check the release notes here. […]

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