Access the DCUI from a Remote SSH Session
I posted a tweet tonight. Love it that you access the DCUI from a putty session pic.twitter.com/ODZuFaYMmL — Maish Saidel-Keesing (@maishsk) August 8, 2013 I needed to restart the management …
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Subscribe via RSS →All I Did Was Add a VMkernel Interface (Routing)
That was the call I got today. “All I did was add a VMkernel interface and my host lost connection to vCenter”. On went my troubleshooting hat. First the environment (simplified) The …
vCloud Suite Licenses and (NO)vRAM
Yes I said the “v”- word again. That “dirty” term that was abolished at VMworld 2012 this year. (forgive the cynicism) To my surprise – it is still haunting me – and I suppose soon us all. A week ago …
vESXi with 10Gb Ethernet Using VMXNET3 - Yes You Can!!
I have asked for this…. Begged for …… Ok not begged, but I did ask nicely.. a number of times, a great number of times!!!! One of the slight drawbacks of working in vESXi is that you could not …
IBM ESXi Customized Offline Bundle
Oh….. how I have searched for this… For hours… really. And to just come across this by chance today. Duh! Search for a customized bundle for HP hardware and it is very easy to find. Try the same …
ESXi Shell history
Someone asked me this question this week – how do I see the history of my commands in the the ESXi shell? There is no history command on an ESXi host.. So how do you go about getting the history of …
What Happens When No Swap Volume is Available?
Have you ever asked yourself that question? A customer of mine a small number of VM’s on one host that were continuously crashing. He would power them up and within less than 5 minutes – they would …
Removing ^M Characters from Files in ESXi
As part of a build process for an ESXi server – on of the stages are to upload a valid SSL certificate to the ESXi server. When copying the certificate over to the host with pcsp for some reason they …
How to Set CDP on a vSwitch–the PowerCLI Way
We all know that you get CDP information in a number of ways (also PowerCLI), KB 1007069 provides a number of ways to do it. But how would you go about setting CDP on the vSwitch? That can be done on …
Windows 8 Developer Preview on ESXi5
Thank you William Lam @lamw!!!!!!! Due to William’s How to Run Windows 8 on vSphere 5 (for reals) post I can now try out Windows 8 Developer Preview on my ESX boxes. This was resolved in patch …