Downloading files with wget on ESXi · random writes
Reminder to self to check if wget on ESXi now finally supports https downloading: [WayBack] Downloading files with wget on ESXi · random writes. In the mean time, ESXi 6.7 Update 2 and up seems to...
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VMware ESXi: VMware Tools Installed but not running
Sometimes you get this situation on a Windows VM, usually after a reboot but not logging on: Networking No network information VMware Tools Installed but not running A “Windows” “VMware Tools”...
View ArticleCloudKey ESXi Appliance – Google Search
Via [Archive.is] CloudKey ESXi Appliance – Google Search: [WayBack] My Ubiquiti UniFi Appliance 3.0 – now even more super! | Justin’s IT Blog 3.1 downloads: [WayBack-redirect/WayBack] VMware 6.5+...
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VMware VMRC: connect to a remote console without the vSphere Client
Interesting tool: https://www.vmware.com/go/download-vmrc. Back when scheduling this post in 2019, this was the most recent version: [WayBack] Download VMware vSphere: Download VMware Remote Console...
View Articleesxi what is my ip – Google Search
[Archive.is] esxi what is my ip – Google Search: esxcli network Commands Command Description network ip dns server remove Remove a DNS server from the list of DNS servers to use for this ESXi host....
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How to rename a VM through SSH on ESXi ? |VMware Communities
From [WayBack] How to rename a VM through SSH on ESXi ? |VMware Communities (numbering and code highlighting mine): Kindly find the below: Backup the virtual machine Power down the virtual machine...
View ArticleKeeping your ESXi infrastructure up-to-date: Subscribe to VMware ESXi Patch...
[WayBack] Subscribe to VMware ESXi Patch Tracker RSS Feed has all the post-feedburner (see below) RSS links in a nice table: Subscribe to VMware ESXi Patch Tracker RSS Feed For popular web based...
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In my research list: reproduce failing ESXi updates.
Whenever I get time to dig into the actual cause (a reboot fixed it; I do not like problems disappearing by themselves). I got these errors: cannot be live installed No space left on device A reboot...
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Automatically shutting down an ESXi 6.7+ server from a CyberPower UPS using...
Unlike the name PowerPanel Business Edition, this is a free tool. It allows you to manage your CyberPower UPS and to shutdown various systems, including an ESXi host. It took CyberPower from version...
View ArticleSome notes for future research: ovftool on ESXi
One of the things you cannot do easily is deploy ofv from an ESXi data store to an ESXi data store using ESXi 6.7 or higher using the web client. Some notes that might help me further on this (for now...
View ArticleESXi 6.7 and up: embedded busybox wget understands https (finally!)
At last, somewhere around ESXi 6.7, the built-in BusyBox tool wget started to support the https protocol. Yay! Which means that workarounds in these answers are not needed any more: [WayBack] VMware...
View ArticleThe curious Kabri | How to force VMware to generate a new MAC address for a...
[WayBack] The curious Kabri | How to force VMware to generate a new MAC address for a virtual machine Shut down the Guest OS. Open up the .vmx file. Delete the following lines (that begin with…):...
View ArticleNVMe and SATA health data on ESXi: some links to investigate
Somehow, health data of my NVMe and SATA drives do not show up as health information on the web-ui of my ESXi playground rig. So far, I noticed that ESXi runs a smartd, but does not ship with a...
View ArticleESXi: finding unmounted VMFS volumes
Sometimes, especially when ESXi thinks a volume is bad, but the ESXi S.M.A.R.T. logging does not indicate so, it boots without mounting some of the VMFS volumes as datastores. It took me a while to...
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Windows on VMware ESXi: fixing “Unknown USB Device” or “The USB device...
Sometimes, the Windows device manager shows any of the below errots for an USB 3.x device that is physically connected to the ESXi host and passes through a VM (via a virtual USB controller and virtual...
View Article“fixing” ESXi “rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at...
Reminder to self: create a static ESXi binary for a recent rsync release. Quite a few people have bumped into rsync erroring out with “large” sets of files (where large can be as low as ~1000), like...
View ArticleSome links to post about ESXi 6 and ESXi 7 storage and storage speed issues
For my link archive (most via [Wayback] sata very slow after ESXi 6.7 update – Google Search): Thick versus thick provisioned VMDKs: [Wayback/Archive.is] Solved: ESXi 6.7 – Windows 10 Pro VM – poor...
View ArticleVMware ESXi has 2 bootbanks; with some luck the second contains your old ESXi...
Just in case I ever need this again: [Wayback] VMware Knowledge Base: Reverting to a previous version of ESXi (1033604) In the console screen of the ESXi host, press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to see the Direct...
View ArticleESXi shell: appending the parent directory of a script to the path and...
I needed a way to append the directory of a script to the path as all my tool scripts are in there, and I did not want to modify any profile scripts as these might be modified during ESXi upgrade....
View ArticleESXi: listing virtual machines with their IP addresses
This is sort of a follow-up on VMware ESXi console: viewing all VMs, suspending and waking them up: part 4 which already gave part of the configuration details of all the configured VMs. Back then, we...
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