Tag: esxcli

VIBs Skipped

Well, I didn’t mention it like many might not mention it, while you applying any patches or updates on your “VMware ESXi” hosts, it will show the result which containing the “Successful or Failed” prompt. Most of times I did this process, I checked the result and walked a way without checking which “VIBs Skipped”. […]

Updated: March 21, 2012 — 6:16 PM

Updating “ESXi 5.0” to “ESXi 5.0 Update 1”

Just like other update I posted about ( link 1, link 2 ) this new released patch can be applied using same method as well but there is one little difference I want to highlight here. By checking this patch for available image profiles using bellow command, you will find four (4) image profiles which is different […]

Updated: March 16, 2012 — 2:29 PM

Manually Updating ESXi 5.0 Hosts

This post would be compact/small version of new page ”ESXi 5.0 – Manual Update Guide” which showing all steps I toke to update one of my “VMware ESXi 5.0” hosts. First of all, you need to download and save patches from VMware Site to the datastore which is accessible by target host; in this case if […]

Updated: March 2, 2012 — 5:40 PM

Removing vCloud Director Agent

This post would be compact/small version of my new page “vCloud Director – Uninstalling Agent” which showing all steps I toke to remove “vCloud Director Agent” from ESXi hosts. Summary of what happened in the past I had vCloud Director 1.5 and SQL database for it in my home lab which contain two “VMware ESXi 5.0” […]

Updated: February 17, 2012 — 5:57 PM

No Power Option

There are times which some VMs are freezing and in these situations there is no option for restart or shutdown. Today I got same experience and hopefully this time it was in my home lab, if it were in production … 🙄 Anyway, getting to the main point, in these situation admins may wants to […]

Updated: December 5, 2011 — 11:51 PM