VMware ESXi 5.5 – Cannot connect via SSH to host
In order to troubleshoot issues in VMware you often need to SSH to the host. In older versions of VMware, SSH used to be enabled…
In order to troubleshoot issues in VMware you often need to SSH to the host. In older versions of VMware, SSH used to be enabled…
The other day I had to rename a VMDK in ESXi. I presumed it would be a simple matter of removing the VMDK from the…
Sometimes you will need to gain access to a VMware ESXi Server via SSH in order to carry out certain tasks, such as : –…
There seems to be a bug in VMware ESXi that means sometimes when you replace a faulty memory module on a HP server the sensor in ESXi doesn’t reset for some reason. This means it still flags memory being an issue although all the modules are fine.
To Power on and off Virtual Machines in the ESXi Command Line use the commands below : To get the current state of all virtual…
To list all the Virtual Machines on a VMware ESXi Host run the command vm-support -V Handy to find VM’s that might have been renamed…
Had an interesting issue where vMotion was failing between 2 ESXi 5 servers. No matter what I did they just wouldn’t respond. I couldn’t ping…
To Restart VMware Management Agents on ESX and ESXi carry out the following commands : ESX service mgmt-vmware restart ESXi /sbin/services.sh restart