Patching a Standalone ESXi Host
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…
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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…
Recently, I had the need to remove some snapshots from a virtual machine using the CLI as there were issues with network connectivity. The CLI tool to do this is…
You can use the vscsiStats tool to gather storage performance data for VMFS and NFS datastores. The tool is now available on a default install of ESXi, and is located…
ESXTOP and RESXTOP are tools used to monitor and gather performance data from an ESXi host. Esxtop is a command-line tool that gives real-time information about resource usage in a vSphere…
I’ve had a requirement recently to create a small XenServer 6.2 test/demo environment. I decided to use a Windows 2008 R2 host as an NFS server to provide shared storage…
This is all covered in the vSphere Storage Guide which I will aim to summarise here. ESXi uses storage APIs known as the Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) to manage storage…
Details on the path selection policies can be found in the vSphere Storage Guide, but are summarised below: The three default path selection policies (PSPs) are: MRU (Most Recently Used).…
I’ve been posting a few articles on using partedUtil and vmkfstools as part of my VCAP-DCA studies. One of the articles I’ve come across a few times is this one…
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