Following on from an auto deploy install using SD cards on a Cisco UCS where we couldnt configure the scratch partition within an automated process so I wrote a powershell script to loop around a specific cluster and update all the host logs. Note: This assumes that the directories are already created. I might include Read More…
Tag: esxi
Get Install Date of ESXi Host
if you need to know when the ESXi OS install was: esxcli system stats installtime get Example output: 2021-09-07T17:59:32
Unable to install Rocky Linux 8 in ESXi 7
Problem When attempting to install Rocky Linux 8 on an ESXi 7.0 host the boot iso (minimal) was not being picked up at all and I was just getting the Attempting to start up from message. Solution To fix the issue disable Secure Boot option then try again. It appears secure boot is not supported Read More…
Converting Virtual Box OVF to VMware ESXi
Problem: I was attempting to deploy the Zabbix 3.4.x appliance consistiing of an OVF and singled VMDK to a UAT vCenter 5.5 deployment. The following error appeared: The OVF package requires unsupported hardware. Details: Line 25: Unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2' Solution Edit the OVF (in my case I used notepad++) Change Read More…
Check the IP Address of iDRAC via ESXi Host
Problem: Due to a disk failure I was trying to ascertain whether a partciular remote ESXi host had an iDRAC port and what the IP address was Resolution: To find this: Click the host in question via vSphere Client -> Select Hardware Status -> The expand the Baseboard Management Controller Sensor
PowerCLI Script to Get Number of CPUs, RAM and Provisioned HDD Size
The following script looks at particular folder (finance) on a vCenter Server then for each VM gets the number of CPUs, memory in GB and calculates the combined size of all HDDs. This is then exported to a csv file. Connect-VIServer -Server {hostname} -User {username} -Password {password} Get-Folder 'Finance' | Get-VM | Sort Name -descending| Select-Object Read More…
Extending a VMware VMDK and LVM in CentOS 6
In this example I will be expanding a VMDK on virtual machine running on ESXi 5.5 from 100GB to 220GB. I will then increase the size of LVM in the Centos 6.7 guest to reflect this. Its always prudent to take a clone of the VM and/or ensure everything has been backed up before attempting to extend Read More…
List and Remove VIBs from ESXi 5.0 Host
Scenario: I wanted to remove the vcloud director agent from an ESXi host. vCloud director had been removed from the environment so I just wanted to tidy everything up. To do this you need to remove the VIB (VMware Installation Bundle). Firstly, list all the components on the ESXi host # esxcli software vib list Read More…
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