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When registering for ESXi 7: “Content Not Available Dear user, the web...
VMware ESXi 7 registration fails on Chrome The “free-esxi#” pages are the only place where you can register for and view your ESXi licenses, as they are not part of...
View ArticleSome VMware ESXi 7 download filenames and checksums
The free ESXi 7 download page only get these downloads: VMware vSphere Hypervisor – Binaries VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi ISO) image 2020-06-23 | 7.0b | 351.9 MB | iso Boot your server with this...
View ArticleVMware ESXi 6 and 7: checking and setting/clearing maintenance mode from the...
Every now and then it is useful to be able to do maintenance work from the ESXi console addition to the ESXi web-user interface. I know there are many sites having this information, but many of them...
View ArticleVMware ESXi console: viewing all VMs, suspending and waking them up: part 1
I think the easiest way to list all VMs is the vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms command, but it has a big downside: the downside is a mess. The reason is that the output has a lot of columns (Vmid, Name,...
View ArticleVMware ESXi console: viewing all VMs, suspending and waking them up: part 2
Last week ended up to be a kind of VMware ESXi heavey, and this week will be similar. So it is time for following up on VMware ESXi console: viewing all VMs, suspending and waking them up: part 1. That...
View ArticleVMware ESXi console: viewing all VMs, suspending and waking them up: part 3
Yesterday’s installment ended with a list of power related vim-cmd vmsvc commands: Usage: power.getstate vmid Usage: power.hibernate vmid Usage: power.off vmid Usage: power.on vmid Usage: power.reboot...
View ArticleVMware ESXi console: viewing all VMs, suspending and waking them up: part 4
Yesterday we ended with an overview of available and unavailable vim-cmd vmsvc commands and the promise to try running the various power commands on all relevant VMs. Let’s start with a summary of the...
View ArticleVMware ESXi console: viewing all VMs, suspending and waking them up: part 5
Yesterday’s post got a bit longer than anticipated as there were most steps than I hoped for to create the listing script vim-cmd-list-all-VMs.sh: #!/bin/sh #...
View ArticleRunning ArchiveTeam Warrior version 3.2 on ESXi
A while ago I wrote about Helping the WayBack ArchiveTeam team: running their Warrior virtual appliance on ESXi. Since it was scheduled before my cancer treatment started and got posted when still...
View ArticleESXi: where are my log files actually stored? Actually, most of them are in...
A summary of the full gist at [Wayback/Archive.is] ESXi-where-are-my-log-files-stored.txt: # ls -al / /var/ /var/log/ /var/run/ /scratch/ /scratch/log/ | grep "/\|log\|-\>" /: ... lrwxrwxrwx 1 root...
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VMware ESXi: working around “[Errno 28] No space left on device” when...
A while ago, I had this error while upgrading an ESXi 6.7 system: # esxcli system maintenanceMode get Enabled # esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-20210304001-standard -d...
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Alternatives to VMware ESXi: working around “[Errno 28] No space left on...
Yesterday I talked about VMware ESXi: working around “[Errno 28] No space left on device” when updating (especially when booting from USB-stick). There are some alternative workarounds mentioned on the...
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Solved: Very slow speed on SSD |VMware Communities (via “Building a lab with...
Via [WayBack] Building a lab with ESXI and Vagrant – DarthSidious while researching the possibility of running Vagrant (software) – Wikipedia on VMware ESXi – Wikipedia for building and distributing...
View ArticleNFS server on Windows
One way to access files from ESXi is over NFS shares. Out of the box, Windows Server is the only edition that provides NFS server capability, but desktop editions only have an NFS client. There are...
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VMware Standalone Converter: more recent versions do not support older...
It pays to keep several versions of VMware Standalone Converter at hand as newer supporters do support newer operating systems and ESXi versions, but do not support older operating systems. Hopefully...
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ESXi: wrong IPv4 address after moving the ESXi boot USB stick and SSD devices...
A while ago, I wanted to move the ESXi USB stick and SSD devices to another machine with identical motherboard as it had a larger physical case more suited for expansion. To my surprise, the management...
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ESXi 6.x download URL
Many of the ESXi download URLs get you to my-vmware in places that indicate you do not have a license. This seems to be the only link that consistently gets you the license and downloads:...
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How to Copy files between ESXi hosts using SCP Command
Derived the bits below from [WayBack] How to Copy files between ESXi hosts using SCP Command. Recursive copy from a remote machine to an existing local directory: scp -rp...
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Forgot the ESXi root password? No problems, here are 4 ways to reset it! –...
I only needed one of the standalone ways for the many ways in [WayBack] Forgot the ESXi root password? No problems, here are 4 ways to reset it! – VMWARE BLOG Passwords are the things people tend to...
View Article“FIPS mode initialized” when you ssh out of an ESXi box
The once per console/shell logon output of FIPS mode initialized to stderr when you ssh out of an ESXi box seems to be something new since ESXi 6.7. Since I hardly do this, it took a while to reproduce...
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