Installing VMware vCLI on Ubuntu Desktop
In this post I’ll walk through installing the vSphere vCLI on an Ubuntu desktop to enable remotely running esxtop, vicfg
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Learning the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)
It has been a good while since I have worked with vSphere Management Assistant (vMA). I used it fairly often when I was managing a vSphere environment. Since I am teaching the vSphere Optimize and Scale class during the winter semester I spun up the vMA in the homelab to re-introduce myself to it.
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Anatomy of a vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB)
I just finished updating my home lab ESXi host to ESXi 6.0U1b. I was just poking around after doing the update and thought it might be useful to dig into the vSphere Installation Bundle or VIB. A VIB is an installation package which containing software, updates, patches, and drivers which can be installed on ESXi hosts.
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Set Default PSP for a SATP with PowerCLI
This script uses the PowerCLI cmdlet Get-EsxCli to execute the esxcli command to set the default PSP policy for the specified SATP on each host in vCenter Inventory.
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Updating to ESXi 5.1 Update 1 with the Offline Bundle
Update 1 for ESXi 5.1 has been out for a few weeks now. I had a few minutes of downtime so I decided to go ahead and update the host running my home lab. Not for any specific reason other than I had some time and wanted to get to the latest version.
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Masking LUN Being Used as HA Heartbeat Datastore
Last night I was working through a couple of the storage objectives for the VCAP5-DCA. One of the required skills of Objective 1.1 on the blueprint is to understand and apply LUN masking.
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Setting all storage PSP to Round Robin using esxcli on vSphere 5.
Read morevSphere 5 host stops sending syslog messages
I had some maintenance to do on my central syslog server and the server was down for about 30 minutes
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