Configure Centralized Logging on ESXi Hosts
Following this post on installing and configuring the VMware syslog collector, this post will be about how to configure ESXi hosts to use it. One of the ways to configure…
Following this post on installing and configuring the VMware syslog collector, this post will be about how to configure ESXi hosts to use it. One of the ways to configure…
This post is aimed at covering the VCAP-DCA objectives relating to installing the ESXi Dump Collector and the Syslog Collector. I’ve written about installing and testing the ESXi Dump Collector…
Certificate checking is used by ESXi hosts to check each others identities, which helps prevent man-in-the-middle attacks on the host. The default, self signed, certificates generated by an ESXi host…
As described in the vSphere Security Guide: To increase the security of your ESXi hosts, you can put them in lockdown mode. In lockdown mode, all operations must be performed…
I’ve recently written a post about how to collect data with esxtop and resxtop, but how do you interpret that data? esxtop is a great tool for troubleshooting and determining…
Using the watch command from the ESXi command line is a great way to monitor snapshot removal, as shown in this KB article. # watch -d ‘ls -luth | grep…
There are a number of ways to create users and groups on a ESXi host. The most familiar way is to use the vSphere client. You do this by connecting…
Occasionally there is a need to patch an ESXi host without using Update Manager. It may be that Update Manager isn’t installed, or that there are network restrictions in place…
ESXi has an embedded SNMP agent which allows the host to send SNMP traps and receive requests. In the examples here I will use vicfg-snmp from a vMA to configure SNMP on my…
I’ve written a post recently around creating snapshots using the ESXi CLI. Further to that, I thought I’d cover a bit on Snapshot Consolidation With vSphere 5, a new feature…
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