Access ESX Host When Root Login is Disabled
VMware Security best practices are to not allow PermitRootLogin to an ESX host. Enabling root SSH login on an ESX host. I could not SSH into a newly provisioned host. The server would not allow root …
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Subscribe via RSS →PowerCLI 4.1.1 poster - Updated
Pablo Roesch posted on the VMware Communities the latest version of the PowerCLI poster. Thanks to all that made this happen.
Getting Average Usage from your hosts - PowerCLI
I was asked to provide a small report on what the average RAM usage was on each host over the past 30 days I forgot to mention the code was inspired by the session that Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf gave …
User Can't Cancel a task
I was asked today to cancel a task of a machine import today - because it was created by mistake. So I naturally asked the Cluster Admin, “Why do you not do it yourself?”. And he naturally …
Changes in PowerCLI 4.1
July 14, 2010 Kirk Munro posted last week about the PowerCLI 4.1: A fork in the road regarding changes in namespaces that were introduced in the new version of PowerCLI 4.1. Scott Herold of Vizioncore …
PowerCLI - What Will the Future Hold?
This is just a small rant on my part, so forgive me if it comes over the wrong way. Carter Shanklin left the PowerCLI team about at the end of April 2010. For those of you who do not know, Carter was …
ESXi Deployment Solution - Part 3
Today we will deal with the client and server scripts, and before we start I would like to get the definitions straight. Client Script: The script that is executed on the ESXi machine (Python) Server …
ESXi Deployment Solution - the beginning
I posted a small preview about a new ESXi Deployment Solution. First question I would like to answer is why? Why is a Deployment solution needed for ESXi? Why is it any different to Deploying the full …
Sneak Preview of ESXi Deployment Solution
Well after cursing more than once at Python on Twitter over the past week or so - I finally got managed to overcome This is a sneak preview of my ESXi Deployment Solution How exactly it works - will …
How to Speed Up Your PowerCLI Queries
It is a known fact that using PowerCLI there are more than one way to skin a cat - or more than one way to access the SDK and the properties that you would like to get. Take for example getting all …