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Reconfigure diagnostic partition with PowerCLI using Get-EsxCli
Apr 13, 2016 · · esxcli esxi powercli ·
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The following Get-EsxCli command will unconfigure your diagnostic partition and reconfigure with smart selection. This was needed because the install partition uuid had changed due to an option in the NetApp system while doing system testing. 1$server_list = Get-VMhost 2 3 4Foreach ($srv in $server_list) 5{ 6 $esxcli = …
PowerCLI goodies
Apr 12, 2016 · · esxi powercli powercli-snippet vsphere ·
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These are powercli goodies I use on a regular base. I have collected them here to find them easily. Some I wrote myself, some are copied from other sites. If I didn't reference the source, I don't know anymore where I found it. Change portgroup on a lot of vm's Testing with one vm 1get-vm my_vm_name | …
esxtop output is not displaying as it should
Dec 4, 2020 · · esxi esxtop linux vmware ·
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esxtop output launched from a terminal emulator displays incorrectly. We will update the environment variable value so esxtop information displays correctly.
Use iPerf to test NIC speed between two ESXi hosts
Oct 26, 2020 · · esxi vmware vsphere ·
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Sometimes you want/need use iPerf to test the nic speed between two ESXi hosts. I did because I was seeing a NIC with low throughput in my lab. How can we test raw speeds between the two hosts? iPerf comes to the rescue. I was looking on how to do this on an ESXi host. I doesn’t come as a surprise that I found the …
Reconfigure diagnostic partition using Get-EsxCli -V2
Nov 1, 2018 · · esxcli esxi powershell ·
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The following powershell snippet is going to unconfigure the diagnostic coredump partition using the esxcli version 2 cmdlet. The second part will reconfigure the diagnostic partition with the ‘smart’ option so that an accessible partition is chosen. If you want to configure a new diagnostic partition the you will find …
vShield Endpoint SVM status vCenter alarm
Mar 23, 2017 · · esxi trendmicro vshield vsphere ·
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vCenter is showing an alarm on the TrendMicro Deep Security Virtual Appliance (DSVA): ‘vShield Endpoint SVM status’ Checking vShield for errors: The DSVA VA console window shows: (as to where it should show a red/grey screen) Let’s go for some log file analysis To get a login prompt: Alt + F2 Login with user dsva and …
Start or stop ESXi services using PowerCLI
Mar 3, 2017 · · esxi powercli powercli-snippet ssh vsphere ·
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Start the ssh service on all hosts: Get-VMHost | Foreach { Start-VMHostService -HostService ($_ | Get-VMHostService | Where {$_.Key -eq "TSM-SSH"}) } <div class="uagb-ifb-content"> <div class="uagb-ifb-title-wrap"> </div> <div class="uagb-ifb-text-wrap"> <p …
Failed to clear bootbank content /altbootbank: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor: ‘/altbootbank/state.xxxxxxx’
Aug 20, 2016 · · esxi vsphere ·
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In a VSAN project the VMware Compatibility Guide mentioned a different driver version for the raid controller than the one that was installed. So I tried to install a driver update for the raid controller through the CLI. This did not work out as expected because the /altbootbank was in a corrupted state. There were …