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ESXCLI Basics: Configure Dump Collector Host
Another basic command, but may be useful in stateless environments with no local disk usable for a diagnostic partition. Here is a quick how-to. Connect to your host through SSH […]
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ESXCLI Basics: Configure Syslog Host
Another basic command, but essential for health monitoring of your hosts when using a Syslog Server. Here is a quick how-to. Connect to your host through SSH or open the […]
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ESXCLI Basics: Setup SNMP on ESXi 5.x
This is really basics stuff, but here is a quick how to. Connect to your host through SSH or open the DCUI. Setup the target SNMP server, port and community […]
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ESXCLI Basics: Troubleshooting Management Network Connection on ESXi 5.x
Another quick post about ESXCLI basics. Here is a procedure how to quickly recover the Management Network functionality on your ESXi host. First, login through iLO or iDRAC or iRMC, […]
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ESXCLI Basics: Installing a custom CIM provider on ESXi 5.x
A quick blog post on how to install a custom CIM provider on an ESXi 5.x host. Command reference can be found here. In this example I will use an […]
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Calculating Percentage of Cluster Resources Admission Control Policy for an unbalanced vSphere 5.x cluster
I’ve been working lately on a project for one of our customers and one of the requirements was to reuse as much hardware as possible. This led of course to […]
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Upgrading VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager from 5.0 to 5.1
A little while ago VMware released vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 together with other products and vCloud Suite. Here is a quick summary of “What’s new in SRM 5.1” and […]
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VMs on nested ESXi 5.x host will not start after upgrade to ESXi 5.1
Recently I upgraded my physical server to ESXi 5.1 and I have been running different VMs on it without any issues. Unfortunately, when I powered on my whole vCenter Site […]