{"id":328,"date":"2011-04-30T14:59:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T18:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2011-04-30T14:59:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T18:59:43","slug":"free-vmware-transition-to-esxi-essentials-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/virtualization\/free-vmware-transition-to-esxi-essentials-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Free VMware Transition to ESXi Essentials course"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently completed the free VMware Transition to ESXi Essentials course. If you’d like more information on how to sign up for this course yourself, check out the following link: http:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/esxi\/2011\/04\/become-a-true-esxi-expert-with-the-new-free-vmware-elearning-course-and-ebook-offer.html<\/a><\/p>\n

I wanted to share a few specific things I learned from the training. If the price tag (free) isn’t enough to entice you to sign up, hopefully the following details will.<\/p>\n

Module 4 of the training discusses using the vMA and goes into specific detail on vifp addserver, mcli.pl and vicfg-hostops. I’ve used one of these commands before, but learned something about it; the other two commands were new to me — but I’m sure I’ll be using them soon.<\/p>\n

–vifp addserver<\/strong>: I’ve used this command several times before. Once you have servers added with fastpass, you can issue commands to the host without providing credentials. What I didn’t realize, but learned from the course<\/em>, is that vifp addserver creates local accounts on the ESXi host. I verified that several of my ESXi hosts still have these users hanging out.<\/p>\n

–mcli.pl<\/strong>: located in \/opt\/vmware\/vma\/samples\/perl; allows running the exact same command against a list of ESXi host names. I have not tried yet, but I would assume this could be used to enable CDP for a virtual switch on all hosts in a cluster (see http:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/virtualization\/update-to-enabling-vswitch-cdp-vma-4-1\/<\/a> for CDP syntax)<\/p>\n

–vicfg-hostops<\/strong>: allows hosts to be put into maintenance mode (with -o enter) or removed (with -o exit) from within the vMA. This would be helpful when using vihostupdate to deploy a bundle. Normally I turn this into a 2 console operation…now I can do it all from the command line!<\/p>\n

This module also shared the link to a PDF worth keeping around — vSphere Command-Line Interface Installation and Scripting Guide<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This is just a sample of the ~3 hours worth of quality content. I’d recommend any VMware administrator find the time to sit through this eCourse presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently completed the free VMware Transition to ESXi Essentials course. If you’d like more information on how to sign up for this course yourself, check out the following link: http:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/esxi\/2011\/04\/become-a-true-esxi-expert-with-the-new-free-vmware-elearning-course-and-ebook-offer.html I wanted to share a few specific things I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}