Archive for the ‘vmware’ Category

ESXi and iSCSI Setup

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

Today I learned that with iSCSI you should set proper NICs to the iSCSI vmk’s.

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ESXi 4.1 and Etherchannel

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

Today I had an issue with ESXi 4.1 and Etherchannel.
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List hardware of your server

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Recently I wondered which hardware I am using in a remote root server. A friend of mine came up with the following command:

dmidecode

This even works on ESX 3.5 Hosts. You see really detailled which hardware is in the box.

VMware ESX: Create depot and install patches from there

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Today I have made 2 scripts which ease ESX 3.5 patch management for me.
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VMware ESX cmd-Line reference

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Get CDP Neighbor info (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/153320):

esxcfg-info -n | less

NIC Teaming for Cisco Switches:

On ESX set “Route based on ip hash” (http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/09/05/setting-vmware-esx-vswitch-load-balancing-policy-via-cli/):

vmware-vim-cmd /hostsvc/net/vswitch_setpolicy --nicteaming-policy=loadbalance_ip vSwitch1

Add nic to Team:
esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic1 vSwitch1