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esxi listing usb devices on host console: lsusb
Searching for esxi list usb devices on host console did not return meaningful results, but after a few more deeper tries I found that ESXi has lsusb at [WayBack] See if USB drive is connected |VMware...
View ArticleESXi Embedded Host Client
This version of the ESXi Embedded Host Client is written purely in HTML and JavaScript, and is served directly from your ESXi host and should perform much better than any of the existing solutions....
View ArticleLogging to syslog on a VMware ESXi machine
Since “esxi write entry to syslog” didn’t return results on how to add new syslog entries, only how to configure syslog. It was much easier than I hoped for: logger TEST With a default configuration...
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Always use SCSI for your VM guest disks – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
Rephrased from [WayBack] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+: If you install a virtual machine, ensure the disk controller and disks are SCSI based. This has many advantages, including: speed (usually the...
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ESXi: Failed to reconfigure virtual machine… There are insufficient licenses...
Failed to reconfigure virtual machine W81Entx64-vs2017. There are insufficient licenses to complete this operation. Searching for “There are insufficient licenses to complete this operation.” memory...
View ArticleSome links that should me help shrinking the virtual disk files of Windows VMs
With virtual disks, at least these three levels are involved: partition or volume (often called drive) size virtual disk size virtual disk backing store size When talking about shrinking disks, they...
View ArticleUsing telnet from the VMware 5.x and 6.x ESXi shell: use nc
The short answer is: you can’t use telnet. But you can use alternatives, obviously. For instance, to troubleshoot some iSCSI connectivity problems, you would be used to doing something as this. ~ #...
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Not sure why, but ESXi 6.5 changed “uuid.location”, “uuid.bios” and...
When rearranging storage locations, I had to move a few VMs to different data stores. So I removed them from the inventory, moved them to another datastore, then re-added them as a set. Besides getting...
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VMware ESXi 6.5: “Failed – An error occurred during host configuration.” when...
I tried repeating VMware KB: Configuring Network Time Protocol (NTP) on ESX/ESXi hosts using the vSphere Client in ESXi 6.5 using the web-client (the steps are very similar, see [WayBack] How to...
View ArticleHOW TO: Configure Shared Diagnostic Partition on VMware ESX host | vStrong.info
Interesting for vSphere clusters: [WayBack] HOW TO: Configure Shared Diagnostic Partition on VMware ESX host | vStrong.info –jeroen
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ESXi: shrinking a Windows disk
I had to shrink down a Windows disk of an ESXi based Virtual Machine from 240 Gibibyte to about 140 gigabyte. In this case, it was Windows 7 on ESXi 6.5, but the actual versions do not really matter....
View ArticleESXi: shrinking a thin provisioned disk by first exploding it with zero content
In addition to ESXi: shrinking a Windows disk, you can shrink any ESXi thin provisioned disk by first exploding it with zero content, then shrinking it like described by [WayBack] How to Shrink a Thin...
View ArticleConverting a virtual IDE disk to a virtual SCSI disk (1016192)
Just in case I have a VM with only IDE disks of which one ore more need to become SCSI disks: [WayBack] Converting a virtual IDE disk to a virtual SCSI disk (1016192) TL;DR Add one SCSI disk Install...
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OSX 10.13 with vSphere 6.7 – Virtual Odyssey
Interesting: I never realised that getting MacOS installed on ESXi was relatively easy! [WayBack] OSX 10.13 with vSphere 6.7 – Virtual Odyssey: vCenter 6.7a/ESXi 6.7a Installing OSX 10.13 seemed pretty...
View ArticleA choco install list
Sometimes I forget the choco install mnemonics for various tools, so here is a small list below. Of course you have to start with an administrative command prompt, and have a basic Chocolatey...
View ArticleSupermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X9SRi-3F
I still like this board: Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X9SRi-3F. It has been in a storage solution for a while, uses OK power, has not many SATA ports, but enough slots for...
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Disable ESXi Password Complexity – Perfect Cloud
Sometimes you have a long enough password, that matches with the confirmation, but pressing “Enter” to continue gives “Password does not have enough character types”: From [WayBack] Disable ESXi...
View ArticleThe tale of [SSH into ESXi 6.7 box resulting in “debug1: expecting...
A similar ESXi 6.5 box worked well to ssh into, but on ESXi 6.7 it failed: SSH into ESXi 6.7 box resulting in “debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEXDH_REPLY“, delay and after entering password “Permission...
View ArticleSupermicro Single CPU Board for ESXi Home lab – Upgrading LSI 3008 HBA on the...
This LSI 3008 HBA update to TI firmware is still on my wish list, but I could not find it when I bought the board in 2018. [WayBack] Supermicro Single CPU Board for ESXi Home lab – Upgrading LSI 3008...
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Need to do some reading on local domains on the internal network
A long time I wondered why I saw ESXi systems on my local network have two entries in their /etc/hosts file: [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various...
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