Manually Kill VMware Tools Install on ESXi
Sometimes VMware Tools installations can get into an odd state. The only option in your “Guest” menu for the tools is to end the install. Often, this will return an error stating it cannot complete...
View ArticleESX/ESXi Round Robin Datastores
UPDATE The script below will do it by cluster, and is significantly faster. This way it only looks for datastores that are not already set to round robin. The previous script sets everything even if it...
View ArticleLocal Syslog on ESXi 4.1 when booting from USB/SD
One issue when taking advantage of ESXi’s small footprint with USB keys or SD cards is the lack of storage area for syslogs. Unless you are running a centralized syslog for your ESXi hosts, you will...
View ArticleConfiguring SNMP for ESXi 4.1
Configuring SNMP for ESXi is completely different from ESX.This will need to be run from a vMA or from the vmware-cli installed on your machine. The command to run is: vicfg-snmp.pl –server ESXiServer...
View ArticleAppend Notes to Virtual Machine with PowerCLI
We use NetBackup to back up our virtual environment. The exclusion queries used by NetBackup can be cumbersome to manage when you have a large environment like we do. One feature supported in NetBackup...
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