VCAP-DCA 5

I’ve written previously about VMFS resignaturing, so rather than cover the same ground here, I’ll walk through an example of working with/troubleshooting a snapshot lun. To start with, you can…

NFS can be used as an alternative to a VMFS datastore for storing virtual machines. When using an NFS share as storage for virtual machines, there are a few things…

When troubleshooting storage and multipathing issues it is often necessary to check log files to fully understand where the problem lies. Most commonly the log to check is the vmkernel…

This will be a short post intended to cover the VCAP5-DCA objective of using the DCUI and ESX cli/shell to monitor and troubleshoot a host. I’ve written a lot around…

Using ESXCLI to manage host configurations is one of the objectives detailed in the VCAP5-DCA blueprint. I’ve covered using esxcli to display and modify host configurations in several posts in…

There are a number of iSCSI related esxcli commands, all accessed using the ‘esxcli iscsi’ namespace: ~ # esxcli iscsi Usage: esxcli iscsi {cmd} [cmd options] Available Namespaces: adapter Operations…

This VCAP-DCA objective appears to be to do with storage hardware such as HBAs and the drivers/modules that ESXi uses to interface with them. To start with, you can list…

This post will look at the ‘esxcli storage‘ namespace, with a focus on troubleshooting. I’ve written previously, in the course of covering the VCAP-DCA objectives, about using ESXCLI to w0rk…

On occasion, you may have need to generate new certificates for an ESXi host, typically if there has been a change of host name or if the original certificates have…

In the course of covering the VCAP-DCA objectives, I have written about ESXi Active Directory integration. When you log on to an ESXi host using AD credentials, those credentials are…