How to Recreate a Missing VMFS Partition in vSphere 5
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…
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…
There are a number of VMFS filesystem related tasks you can run using vmkfstools. Query a VMFS Volume You can get information on a VMFS volume by running the following…
VMware-cmd is a command line utility that can be run from a vMA, which allows you to perform various virtual machine operations. There are a number of options available when running…
The vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) is a virtual appliance which “allows administrators and developers to run scripts and agents to manage ESXi hosts and vCenter Server systems. vMA is a…
vCenter Server Log files vCenter Server 5.x on Windows Server 2003: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs\ vCenter Server 5.x on Windows Server 2008: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs\ vCenter Server 5.x Linux Virtual Appliance: /var/log/vmware/vpx/…
Well, I’ve been here before. Came to use the vMA I have set up in my lab environment earlier, and got the following when trying to log in… The procedure…
As an alternative to vicfg-cfgbackup.pl as a way to backup and restore ESXi host configuration you may want to consider PowerCLI. As a quick review, vicfg-cfgbackup is a script that…
VMFSTOOLS is something I perhaps don’t use as regularly as I’d like and as a result find myself having to refer to the documentation pretty much anytime I do anything…
This article shows how to reset the root password on a vMA or VMware Virtual Management Appliance. This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while, mainly…
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