Well, this post is all about doing some administration tasks using “VMware PowerCLI“. 1. Remote TSM (SSH) Think about conditions you’ve added 30 new hosts to your vCenter and for some reasons you want to enable remote access (SSH) on all these hosts; there are multiple ways like: 1. Enabling this option from “DCUI” by […]
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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 […]
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Little tips on updating hosts using vCLI
Today I make some time free to update my home lab from “VMware ESXi 4.1” to “VMware ESXi 4.1 Update 1”. Well, This may look outdated topic or old version as VMware already announced “VMware vSphere 5.0” but I face an “Error”, I thought it may be good to share here. Quick Note: Full process […]
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Unregistering & Registering VMs
This post is about the way to unregister and register VMs from/to ESXi hosts using commands (Local TSM, SSH) not GUI (vSphere Client). May be you ask, why should I do such a thing? well, assume you have two hosts in cluster without EVC enabled for it, in order to enable EVC for cluster, all […]
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DCAS-#003 (Scripted Installation of ESXi 4.1)
Today, while I was working on “uda2cm” I found some notes which I think it’s good to share them here. There is a lot of good post and notes on the net about scripted installation of VMware ESXi and I’m going to link some of them over here (those I’ve used myself): Virtual RealITy (by: […]
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TSM and SSH on ESXi 4.1
I’ve installed the VMware ESXi 4.1 on my home lab for learning purpose. Today I decided to enable SSH on ESXi 4.1 for further use and also check the TSM (Tech Support Mode) on ESXi 4.1 in order to checking the different area on the ESXi itself. So as usual I pressed the ALT+F1 and […]
