Hi everyone,Last, but not least, of the commands we can use for troubleshooting, will be referencing storage management from an ESXi perspective. To interact with this layer, and view a possible list of namespaces on the storage layer, type in:…
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ESXi Commands – VM Commands
Hello everyone,Following the recent posts around the ESXi commands, its time to get to the next layer of commands, used in our investigations, which is the VM layer. To interact with this layer, and view a possible list of namespaces…
ESXi Commands – Network Commands
Hi all,Moving forward, the next layer of commands that can be of great help when troubleshooting, will be network layer. This layer is very sensible (the others are too 😛 ) and should be tampered with very carefully. As presented…
ESXi Commands – System Commands
Hi everyone,Moving on from the Hardware to the next layer, we will be looking into system commands which will allow an administrator to manage and modify the ESXi system / OS aspects. Following previous examples, to explore the system commands,…
ESXi Commands – Hardware Commands
Now that you have a bit of knowledge of the basics in ESXi SSH commands, its time to explore the next set of commands, which will refer to useful hardware commands.I am not going to detail each and every command,…
ESXi Commands – Basic Commands
ESXi is the technology that sits at the basic level of virtualization when using VMWare products. Be it a standalone ESXi host or one managed through vCenter, as a virtualization administrator or system administrator you must get familiar with the…
vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) 6.5 Deployment Guide
Hi everyone,In the world of virtualization using VMWare products, especially on-premises, the management software used is called vCenter. This comes in 2 flavours, vCenter for Windows and the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). Lately VMWare is concentrating on the vCSA version…
How to set MOTD on vCenter and ESXi
If you ever want to setup a Message of The Day for people logging into your vCenter Server (maybe you have a organisational policy, or for identification if you use multiple vCenter), log on to the vCenter using vSphere client,…
How to create a bootable flash-drive containing ESXi installer
The following post will detail how you can build a bootable ESXi installer flash-drive, for use with ESXi hosts that do not have a DVD Drive. Or maybe use it over KVM/iDRAC connections. a) First you will need to download…