Vimsh(and vmware-vim-cm) is probably one of the worst documented commands out there. At the same time it’s one of the most powerful commands(I know it’s a shell…) out there. You name it and “vimsh” does it. Most of you ran into the “enabling vmotion” from the Service Console problem when first starting out with scripted install. Vimsh solves this: /usr/bin/vmware-vim-cmd [...]

I didn’t know this was possible. But you can easily check via the COS if autostarting of VM’s in enabled or not according to this KB article: Log in as root to your ESX host with SSH. Open the /etc/vmware/hostd/vmAutoStart.xml file in text editor. Search for a line that reads: <enabled>true</enabled> If you find the line, the functionality is enabled. [...]

I just wanted to wish you all a happy New Year! Let’s hope 2009 will be as great as 2008 was. I will try to produce a whole bunch of great articles again! And Yellow-Bricks will have other contributors in 2009 to bring Yellow-Bricks.com to the next level. So keep checking this site for the latest and greatest info! When [...]