Some bash parameter propagation links that hopefully will work with ash/dash too
For my link archive; I started with [Wayback] dash get all parameters quoted – Google Search: [Wayback] Handling positional parameters [Bash Hackers Wiki] has this handy table: Parameter(s) Description...
View ArticleVFrontDe/ESXi-Customizer-PS: PowerCLI script that greatly simplifies and...
On my list of things to try, as it allows me to have an ISO at hand in case I ever need to quickly re-install a machine to the current patch level (for instance when the USB boot stick breaks down:...
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Some ESXi 7.x notes
Yes, I know this is late in the game, but I’m still catching up with some of the things after from autumn 2019 to spring 2021 spending most of my time on rectum cancer treatment and other core things....
View ArticleESXi: editing /etc/vmware/hostd/vmInventory.xml to fix the datastore UUID for...
In case I ever need this on ESXi: Insights into the VMware inventory files (vmAutoStart.xml and vmInventory.xml on ESXi; inventory.vmls on VMware Workstation/Player): [Wayback/Archive.is]...
View ArticleSome notes on ESXi `smartinfo` throwing `error Cannot open device`
I wrote about the built-in smartinfo command before at NVMe and SATA health data on ESXi: some links to investigate. It is at /usr/lib/vmware/vm-support/bin/smartinfo, which is not in the path. I used...
View ArticleOn my research list: “ESXi 7”“kickstart”– Google Search
On my research list [Wayback] “ESXi 7” “kickstart” – Google Search. Some links from it: [Wayback/Archive.is] sysadmintutorials/vmware-esxi-7-kickstart-install: This kickstart script is used to automate...
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“Solution” on ESXi 6.7 `smartinfo` throwing `error Cannot open device`
After writing Some notes on ESXi smartinfo throwing error Cannot open device, I bit the bullet and experimented with disabling the vmw_ahci driver (shown as ahci in the storage adapters view), which...
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Some links and graphs on ESXi capping/throtteling disk speeds
As promised in “Solution” on ESXi 6.7 smartinfo throwing error Cannot open device, here are a few links in capping throttling disk speeds by ESXi followed by a few graphs of my own: GUI operations...
View ArticleSome notes on ESXi and SMART information from HDD/SSD devices
For my link archive: [WayBack] VMware ESXi S.M.A.R.T Health Monitoring | ESX Virtualization based on the built-in tooling, showing how /usr/lib/vmware/vm-support/bin/smartinfo works (contrary to the...
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VMware ESXi and vSphere: vmNIC speeds are limited by your CPU and RAM speeds,...
Still a lot of people think that network speed depends on the vNIC driver and vNIC speed settings. This is not true: it mainly depends on CPU and RAM speeds as that is where the bottleneck of virtual...
View ArticleOn my research list: “ESXi”“Secure Boot”– Google Search
On my research list: [Wayback] “ESXi” “Secure Boot” – Google Search. Some links about it: [Wayback] Using ESXi Kickstart %firstboot with Secure Boot [Wayback] ESXi 6.7 – Secure Boot and startup script...
View ArticlePatching ESXi so you can boot a MacOS virtual machine from it
This is totally opposite to yesterday’s Secure Boot post: [Wayback/Archive.is] shanyungyang/esxi-unlocker: VMware ESXi macOS macOS Unlocker V3.0.2 for VMware ESXi =====================================...
View ArticleESXi ash/dash/busybox shell getting current timestamp in UTC ISO8601 format...
On VMware ESXi, with the Busybox ash/dash shell, I wanted to get the current UTC timestamp in ISO 8601 format without dashes (-) or especially colons (:) and plus-signs (+) you have to back-slash...
View ArticleESXi: persistent files you can edit to apply settings during boot
Since ESXi boots from RAM, most files in /etc are not persisted after modification. The files that are persisted, are only persisted once every hour by auto-backup.sh, so better run auto-backup.sh by...
View ArticleESXi: getting and setting the host name, domain and fqdn
A few links and notes: [Wayback] Changing the hostname of an ESX or ESXi host (1010821) Run these commands to change the hostname in ESXi 5.x, ESXi 6.x,ESXi 7.x, using the command line: esxcli system...
View ArticleSome links on Chrome not prompting to save passwords (when Firefox and Safari...
For quite some time now, Chrome (think years) refuses to prompt for saving passwords whereas Firefox and Safari do prompt and save them, even for site types that it used to save passwords for in the...
View ArticleESXi: storing an ISO 8601 time-stamped backup tarball locally
In Determining the ESXi installation type (2014558) | VMware KB, I also showed how to backup the configuration and download it. Sometimes you want an ISO 8601 time-stamped local tarball just in case...
View ArticleESXi: reloading all virtual machines from their (potentially) vmx files
I had to reload all registered virtual machine configurations after replacing an NVMe adapter in one of my ESXi hosts (see the posts next week). The below script is based on this series of April last...
View ArticleESXi: on the console/ssh, when a moved VM pauses during power-on: show which...
First the script that display messages for all virtual machines, vim-cmd-display-messages-for-all-VMs.sh: #!/bin/sh vmids=`vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | sed -n -E -e...
View ArticleSome links on using and updating Let’s Encrypt certificates for internal servers
Sometimes it is easier to have current and public CA signed TLS certificates for internal servers than to setup and maintain an internal CA and register it on all affected browsers (including mobile...
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