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Command line tips and tricks #1

Duncan Epping · Jun 29, 2008 ·

Because I will be posting less in the upcoming weeks about problems I face at customer sites I will try to post some cool command-line tip or trick I discovered or picked up somewhere….

open ESX console ,via putty and type the following
vm-support -x
result: all the VMID’s also known as World ID’s,

And if you’re colleagues hardly ever clean up their snapshots:

find /vmfs/volumes -iname “*delta.vmdk”
result: every delta file gets listed, including the unregistered and/or orphaned snapshots ones!

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Server 3.0.x, 3.5, ESX, service console, VMware

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist and Distinguished Engineering Architect at Broadcom. Besides writing on Yellow-Bricks, Duncan is the co-author of the vSAN Deep Dive and the vSphere Clustering Deep Dive book series. Duncan is also the host of the Unexplored Territory Podcast.

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