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Installing VMware vCLI on Ubuntu Desktop

February 23, 2019February 23, 2019 Hersey 2 Comments esxcli, resxtop, vCLI, vMA

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)

September 25, 2016 Hersey 0 Comments credentials, esxcli, esxi, vcenter, vi-fastpass, 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)

March 16, 2016 Hersey 0 Comments esxcli, esxi, 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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PowerCLI vHersey VMware 

Set Default PSP for a SATP with PowerCLI

November 12, 2013 Hersey 2 Comments esxcli, PowerCLI, psp, satp

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

May 27, 2013 Hersey 3 Comments esxcli, esxi, lab, update

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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DCA vHersey VMware 

Masking LUN Being Used as HA Heartbeat Datastore

May 2, 2012 Hersey 0 Comments esxcli, HA, Heartbeat Datastore, LUN, MASK, VCAP5-DCA

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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Storage VMware 

Setting Storage PSP to Round Robin using esxcli – vSphere 5

December 1, 2011 Hersey 0 Comments esxcli, nmp, psp, round robin, satp, storage

Setting all storage PSP to Round Robin using esxcli on vSphere 5.

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vSphere 5 host stops sending syslog messages

October 25, 2011 Hersey 0 Comments esxcli, esxi, syslog, tcpdump, vsphere

I had some maintenance to do on my central syslog server and the server was down for about 30 minutes

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