One of the most discussed topics when ESXi was released for free was the fact the the Remote Command Line Interface(RCLI) was read only. Today Rich from VM/ETC.com dropped the news that as of ESXi 3.5 U3 the RCLI is read/write. Why is this important? For ESXi there’s no Service Console. The RCLI contains most Service Console commands which are [...]
There are a couple of guys in the Virtualization Community that are really into powershell. Hugo Peeters is one of those guys. This time Hugo created a powershell script to track diskspace all the way from the VM’s filesystem to the VMFS Datastore: So you might want to check if you are wasting a lot of this space. When you [...]
Just had a chat with someone on-line about a scripted install, as of ESX 3.5 the way to enable VMotion via the command-line changed. So for anyone looking for this particular command: /usr/bin/vmware-vim-cmd “hostsvc/vmotion/vnic_set vmk0″ In this example “vmk0″ is the first vmkernel. This is one of the things that changed, so no portgroup id’s anymore. And if you need [...]
I’ve been getting a lot of questions on this script that makes it possible to install VMware tools without rebooting. I must admit that it’s a really smart way to surpress the automatic reboot. But please keep in mind that it’s not VMware Tools that needs the reboot but the actual OS that needs the reboot. Why? VMware tools includes [...]
Three weeks ago I blogged about a powershell script that can assign roles to users. This is very handy when doing scripted installs cause it seemed that it was impossible to add a role to a user from the Service Console. Today we had a discussion via email and my colleague from South Africa, Hugo, actually found out how to [...]
My post about reverting your HAL triggered Alanrenouf to create a short, but very cool script that compares the amount of cpu’s to the windows HAL you’ve chosen. This way you will know within a second if you need to change the HAL of any of your vm’s! Cool stuff: connect-viserver MYVISERVER $myCol = @() ForEach ($VM in (Get-VM)) { [...]
A couple of weeks ago I did a design review. During this review we discussed the process of reverting your “HAL”, on a Microsoft machine, from multi cpu to single cpu. The customer just emailed me a script that can automate this for you. After some googling I noticed that Mike Laverick already wrote an article on this well over [...]
