Time keeping on ESXi server is a best practice, It helps in SSL certificate authentication and troubleshooting (logs/activities), it is very essential to Time configuration settings on ESXi server after deployment or after later. I have written two articles earlier on this topic.
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Esxi Registration unregistration of third-party IO filter storage providers fails on a host
While installing and testing ESXi 7 on the summary page it was showing warning message in yellow Registration/unregistration of third-party IO filter storage providers fails on a host
VMware has already KB provided for this issue - https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/55774. According to VMware this …
Create a VMFS Datastore in the vSphere Client
This is a step by step procedure to create a new VMFS datastore on the ESXi server using vSphere Client, and same guide is applicable for both Local Disk as well as Shared remote storage. While using HTML5 based vSphere client you might find little difference creating a new Datastore. To start I hav…
PowerCLI one-liner Reporting, Assigning, Changing and Removing licenses on ESXi
I was looking for instant one-liner PowerCLI script to get licensing report of ESXi servers and also wanted one-liner commands to assign / remove licenses on ESXi servers, Below scripts help to do the tasks.
#Connect ESXi Server
$vmHost = Get-VMHost -Name ironman.vcloud-lab.com
#Assign / …
Troubleshooting replacing a corrupted certificate on Esxi server
While deploying your own certificate on ESXi server you need to follow certain requirement to create it as shown here, if new generated certificate is not correct as per the standard and if they are replaced overwritten without proper backup, it can cause connection error on ESXi server and you wil…
Replacing a default ESXi certificate with a CA-Signed certificate
Generate new self-signed certificates for ESXi using OpenSSL
Esxi update individual component firmware on HP hardware: disk degraded not authenticated
Server hardware goes faulty is common in any organization, I was doing healthcheck on all vCenter, few of my ESXi servers were showing alerts on faulty storage controller battery and HDD storage issue, they were running on HP hardware, after checking ILO pages, hardware health status was in yellow o…
Solved: Esxi server cannot joined into active directory domain
I assigned one task to my junior colleagues to configure authentication services on vmware esxi servers (Join esxi server into domain), They reported to me that they are not able to join few esxi servers in the domain and giving error. They followed correct instructions as shown below from my earlie…
New Vembu release 3.9.1 - Standard Edition and features
Vembu has publicized recently the latest publication of their leading offering, i.e. Vembu BDR Suite v3.9.1 which contains a Standard Edition intended keeping Small businesses in thoughts. Vembu BDR Suite has been filling all these demands since a long time now. It is a complete solution, intended t…
Create bootable USB from ISO file
I was planning to install VMware ESXi OS on newly purchased servers in my office, There was no remote console (ILO, DRAC, IPMI or IMM RSA) available, because networking was yet to be configured, till the time until network is up, being ahead of time, I wanted to install OS on the physical server, I …
ESXi 6.0 update offline bundle via esxcli commandline: DependencyError VIB bootbank requires VSAN ImageProfile
After completing updating my most of the ESXi 6.5 hosts in the environment as shown in ESXi 6.5 upgrade bundle via command line: No Space Left On Device Error, I wanted few standalone ESXi server to update to 6.0 version, for same offline bundle can be downloaded from my.vmware.com. I uploaded cop…
ESXi HP Blade start issue Enclosure power event detected, System Halted until power condition is corrected
Sometimes I receive below error on the HP Prolient Bladesystem ILO after server reboot, it refuses to complete post, shows message,
Enclouse Power Even Detected
System Halted until Power Condition is Corrected
In most of the case to resolve it I reseat the blade in chassis enclosure (Remove …
ESXi 6.5 upgrade bundle via command line: No Space Left On Device Error
I received few standalone ESXi 6.5 hosts for patching for branch office, I wanted to upgrade build number on server, As there was no option of VMWare update manager for standalone esxi. Here I upgraded them using offline bundle zip. These requires offline bundle zip to be be downloaded from url …
Upload files to vmware ESXi datastore: Different methods
Copying files to VMware Datastores is an easy task. Here in this article, I am showing 3 different methods to upload files to VMware datastores, You can use these methods to copy offline bundle zip, VIB, VMDK or ISO files. Ifyou are using VMWare vSphere web client to upload files to datastore, make …
Resolved: Reset Esxi forgotten root password using hiren bootCD step by step
Reset forgotten ESXi root password on Domain joined Esxi using vSphere web client and Powercli
Reset ESXi root password using Host Profiles on vCenter server: VMWare vSphere Web client
This is third part of the above related articles reset forgotten root password on esxi and there is a disclaime…
Resolved syslog error: Call OptionManager.UpdateValues for object ha-adv-options on ESXi failed
I configured successfully syslog on esxi server around thousand of esxi server in my environment with Configure syslog on VMware ESXi hosts: VMware best practices. But while configuring syslog on few esxi server I receive below error. In the Esxi edit advanced option on Syslog.global.logHost it was …
Adding and sharing RDM disk to multiple VMs in VMware step by step
I had a requirement to configure Two node Microsoft failover clustering on VMware VMs in my office, The plan was to configure clustered file server. Virtual machines has to be separated from each other and should be located on different esxi servers, My first task was to provide my colleague wintel …
Reset HP ILO password from Esxi server
Recently I got some new VMware projects, there HP servers ILO Administrator password were poorly managed and documented. When I took handover I didn't know ILO Administrator passwords for most of the HP servers. I wanted to streamline the the same. As servers were at the remote location and few data…
VMWare ESXi add and create NFS datastore
In the earlier article Microsoft Windows 2016 Install and configure NFS server for ESXi and Linux, I shown on installing and configuring NFS server on Microsoft Windows 2016 sever. NFS datastores is one of the file type of datastore to keep virtual machines on VMWare Esxi server, This is also good …
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