When I setup a vCenter server I typically use a DNS alias (CNAME). This allows me to use a server name that follows an enterprise naming convention, such as S898PAP1B.domain.parent.local, but connect to vCenter with an easy to remember name like vcenter.parent.local. There are various articles that cover the SSL…
I was recently working with a Dell PowerEdge M610 blade server that had a processor problem. During troubleshooting steps, Dell requested a DSET report from my ESXi host. I knew this wouldn’t be a problem as I could use the live boot CD (described here). After I booted the live…
While using the vMA 4.1 as vi-admin, I noticed that a couple commands I tried to run (for example yum update) would fail because I was not root. When I tried to issue ‘su’ I could not become root either. I found the following article virtuallyGhetto VMware Scripts & Resources…
In a previous article Enabling vSwitch Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) I discussed enabling CDP on a standard vSwitch using vMA. Today I deployed the vMA 4.1 and started configuring an ESXi 4.1 host — only to find out that vifpinit had been deprecated in 4.1. Here is a slightly updated…
In an earlier post Directory partition has not been backed up [DC=virtualcenter,DC=vmware,DC=int] I suggested a method to backup the VMwareVCMSDS ADAM database. As Joern posted in a comment, this solution could fill up your D: drive. The following code should help cleanup the ESXiBackup folder and only keep one month…