Clip-art-top-cat-796078So I ran into this odd issue last night working in the old homelab. I was working on troubleshooting an issue with datastore performance on one of my Supermicro ESXi servers. I have two and they are awesome beasts that have been migrated into fancy Cooler Master cases, however that is a tale for another day. Anyway, I digress... the datastore. So yeah, it's a local raid 5 datastore attached to an LSI 9260-8i controller. This particular datastore is 3 600gb 15k SAS drives, and for some reason its slow as all get-out.
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How to Use Hpacucli in ESXi
Wow just stumbled into this one today as I was dreading having to reboot my ESXi 4.1 boxes just to see a few new local disks. Apparently you can install hpacucli in ESXi very easily, and whats even better is that you can install it directly on a datastore and use the install on any … Continue reading How to Use Hpacucli in ESXi
ESXi 4 Quick and Easy Find and Remove All Snapshots Via CLI
I needed a way to find and remove all snapshots quickly and easily from the ESXi 4 command line. Note that I am not a Windows user and would rather punch myself square in the face than use PowerShell. So here it is... and let me warn you its really nasty # for vm … Continue reading ESXi 4 Quick and Easy Find and Remove All Snapshots Via CLI
Configuring Remote Syslog in ESXi 4.1 via the Linux RCLI
First thing you need to know about ESXi is that it rolls its log after a reboot, meaning if your ESXi server crashes there will be no logs to review and no way of knowing what when to hell and where. For this reason it is imperative that you setup a remote syslog server and … Continue reading Configuring Remote Syslog in ESXi 4.1 via the Linux RCLI
Patching ESXi 4.1 via the Linux RCLI
Great Balls of Frustration... could the documentation be anymore confusing and convoluted regarding the process of patching an ESX server via the Linux remote cli.
No, I am not running windows, and no I am not on the local ESX console, and no I am not running the Vmware Management Appliance, and most of all, no I do not want outdated instructions from 2008. I just want to download some patches to my local linux destop and patch my ESX servers. Specifically I want to install the latest and greatest Qlogic drivers to troubleshoot a SAN connectivity issue that I will probably blog about at a later date.
Anyway here is how I did what I needed to do without resorting to using a windows box.
Patching ESXi 4.1 to Update 1 via the VCLI in Linux
In early February VMware release the first update to ESXi 4.1. ESXi 4.1 Update 1 includes additonal drivers, and OS support for RHEL 6 (among others). Also there are a number of bug fixes delivered like random failures on bnx2x nic (yikes). See the entire list below. http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esxi41_u1_rel_notes.html#resolvedissues Patching ESXi via the VCLI is pretty … Continue reading Patching ESXi 4.1 to Update 1 via the VCLI in Linux
Raising A Virtual Machine From the Dead, or How I Screwed Up a VM and Resurected It
Something really nasty happened to me when I was working on storage vmotioning a ton of VMs onto new datastores. Basically I was not paying attention and tried to manually remove a Virtual Machine from the datastore using the datastore browser. This basically wiped out the .vmx and.vmdk files, leaving only the flat.vmdk file which … Continue reading Raising A Virtual Machine From the Dead, or How I Screwed Up a VM and Resurected It