VMware ESXi – Monitoring Tasks VIA CLI
The following post details how to view task information via CLI on an ESXi host. Task details such as: Snapshot operations, for example create/delete/consolidate Clone operations As can be seen […]
EHC 4.1: ESXi Host Migration Process (vCenter Host Migration with ViPR Export Groups)
This procedure details the steps to execute in order to remove an ESXi host from a source ViPR Export Group and add to an existing target Export Group. Note: this […]
EXSi 5.5 to 6.0 Upgrade: Remove Mellanox Conflicting VIBs
We encountered the following “Conflicting VIBs” blocker, while upgrading ESXi 5.5 hosts to 6.0: The Mellanox driver is required for infiniBand, as we do not have a requirement for infiniBand […]
Cisco UCS – Determining ESXi FNIC&ENIC via PowerCLI
The following script allows the user to retrieve a listing of Network (ENIC) & Storage (FNIC) firmware drivers installed on Cisco UCS blades at a per vSphere cluster level. You may download the ‘Cisco_FNIC_ENIC.ps1‘ script here: […]
EMC XtremIO: VMware ESXi Multi-Array Settings
The following table represents the recommended VMware vSphere ESXi host settings to be applied when an ESXi host(s) is connected to a single array and also details multi-array settings when at […]
ESXi 6.x -Restart Mgmt Agents via CLI
Experiencing issues connecting to an ESXi host from vCenter Server? A good place to start your troubleshooting is by restarting the ESXi management agents. The following method uses the CLI […]
EMC RecoverPoint for VMs ESXi Splitter Installation
The following steps detail the installation of the ‘EMC RecoverPoint for VMs’ Splitter VIB on ESXi hosts. The requirement is to Install the ‘RP for VMs’ splitter on each ESXi […]
EMC UIM/P – Editing The Database
Thank you @CliffCahill for providing this trick! Ensure to back up the UIM/P(Unified Infrastructure Manager for Provisioning) DB before you begin. The following provides detailed steps on how to modify IP settings for ESXi host service offerings stored in the UIM DB. Login to the UIM CLI via putty. #To login to uim voyencedb database: su – pgdba psql voyencedb […]
VMware PowerCLI – Adding RDM Disk’s
See also: VMware PowerCLI – Adding VMFS Datastore’s After creating the required LUN’s on your storage array and mapped the LUN’s to your ESXi hosts then you may use PowerCLI […]
EMC NAS Plug-In For vSphere VAAI (VNXe Example)
The ‘EMC NAS Plug-in’ is required in order to enable VAAI (vSphere APIs for Array Integration) operations on ‘NFS Datastores’ on an ESXi 5.x host. If you are not familiar […]
VMware PowerCLI – Adding VMFS Datastore’s
Thank you Cliff, Steve and Luc for helping me out with this task. After you have created the required LUN’s on your storage array and mapped the LUN’s to your ESXi hosts, at this stage you may use PowerCLI to add these new LUNs as VMFS datastore’s. 1. Connect to vCenter: Connect-VIServer -Server “vcenter_IP” -User UserName -Password Password If you […]
EMC VNXe – Troubleshooting NFS Connectivity
Step1 Check the Health status of the Link Aggregation: uemcli -d 10.0.0.1 -u Local/admin -p Password123# /net/la show -detail 1: ID = la0_SPA SP = SPA Ports = eth2_SPA,eth3_SPA Health state = OK (5) 2: ID = la0_SPB SP = SPB Ports = eth2_SPB,eth3_SPB Health state = OK (5) Step2 Ensure the Network Interface for NFS is correctly configured: uemcli […]
Mapping ESXi Host Device ID’s to EMC VMAX Devices using SYMCLI
The mapping of ESXi host device ID’s to the corresponding VMAX device names is made quite easily through the use of EMC VSI (Virtual Storage Integrator) which can be downloaded […]
EMC Symmetrix VMAX – Masking Views for VMware ESX Boot & Shared Cluster VMFS Volumes
This script is a result of having to create quite a large number of dedicated Masking views for VMware ESX 5.x server boot volumes and Masking Views for shared vmfs datastore clusters. In this example I will create two dedicated ESX server MV’s and one Cluster Masking View consisting of the two ESX Hosts sharing a VMFS datastore. Each VMware […]
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