For all those who want more detailed infromation when removing snapshots from a virtual machine or troubleshooting issues, this post will show you use ESXI's Shell to gather more information about the snapshot task. You will need to enable shell, and load putty. We will be utilising the vim-cmd as is "Supported in both ESXI 4.x... Continue Reading →
vSphere 5.5 was released on the 22nd of September and I thought it would be a great time to test out the upgrade/update from the command line. Connect to the Shell using your preferred Terminal tool (putty). Before going a head with this I would check that the update has all the required VIB's for... Continue Reading →
Just a quick post to show how to enable copy and Past on VMware vSphere Guest. You would need to add the following to the configuration parameters.... isolation.tools.copy.disable false isolation.tools.paste.disable false You can also do this in ESXI Shell: ~ # ls ln /etc/VMware ~ # vi /etc/vmware/config add: vmx.fullpath = "/bin/vmx" isolation.tools.copy.disable="FALSE" isolation.tools.paste.disable="FALSE"... Continue Reading →
Restarting ESXI Services through the Shell is very useful when you have a unresponsive client or web console: services.sh restart
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