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Reconfigure diagnostic partition using Get-EsxCli -V2
The following powershell snippet is going to unconfigure the diagnostic coredump partition using the esxcli version 2 cmdlet. The second part will reconfigure the diagnostic partition with the 'smart' option so that an accessible partition is chosen. If you want to...
Configuring Tesla M60 cards for NVIDIA GRID vGPU
There are a couple of steps which need to be taken to configure the Tesla M60 cards with NVIDIA GRID VGPU in a vSphere / Horizon environment. I have listed them here quick and dirty. They are an extract of the NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software User Guide. On the...
Unsupported upgrade of VCSA 6.5 U2 to 6.7
We will upgrade the vCenter Server Appliance from 6.5 U2 to 6.7 though it is not supported. As this is not supported you will NOT want go ahead with this in a production environment. Maybe I will have regrets later on too ... but this is my lab environment so the...
Setting up the lab in Ravello – Part 1 : the jumphost
In these series we will create a lab with multiple components, a jumphost, vcsa, esxi, a vsan enabled cluster, nsx and maybe more. The aim of the series is to learn about deploying all components onto the Ravello cloud. Part 1: Creating the Jumphost Part one of...
boot failure: systemctl status system-fsck-root.service
I had downtime in my lab due to an power failure which resulted in a boot failure of my VCSA 6.5 appliance. Looking on the console showed me a "[FAILED] Failed to start File System Check on /dev/dis...uuid/uuid. See 'systemctl status system-fsck-root.service'...
Manage your PowerCLI vCenter menu entries
When connecting to your vCenter server via PowerCLI, one can use the -menu option. This will give a list of entries you recently used. You can manage the entries here: C:\Users\username\Appdata\Roaming\VMware\PowerCLI\RecentServerList.xml Connect-viserver -menu
vShield Endpoint SVM status vCenter alarm
vCenter is showing an alarm on the TrendMicro Deep Security Virtual Appliance (DSVA): 'vShield Endpoint SVM status' Checking vShield for errors: The DSVA VA console window shows: (as to where it should show a red/grey screen) Let's go for some log file analysisTo get...
Start or stop ESXi services using PowerCLI
Start the ssh service on all hosts: Get-VMHost | Foreach { Start-VMHostService -HostService ($_ | Get-VMHostService | Where { $_.Key -eq "TSM-SSH"} ) } Thanks to Alan Renouf at virtu-al.net, where I found this snippet:...