On October 1st, VMware released a new delta exam to qualify recertification candidates for the VCP5-DCV Certification. The exam is offered to current VCP-DCVs who need to renew their VCP5-DCV credential. The exam will be available through March 10, 2015 (extended!) and offers some key advantages : Based on newRead More →
Today a customer wanted SSH by default on for specific reasons and didn’t like the yellow warning on their ESXi servers. This is how you disable this : First enable SSH : Go to Security Profile –> SSH –> options and enable it. Notice that now you have a yellowRead More →
Are you an vExpert, VCP, VCI, MVP, MCP or MCTS? Then you get here your free NFR license for Veeam Backup & Replication v6.5 (for example your home or work lab). I’m running Veeam Backup & Replication for several years now and couldn’t do without. Technorati Tags: VEEAM,back-up,NFRRead More →
I’ve been working some time with Veeam Backup & Replication and I’m very pleased about it. At last I found some time to upgrade my V5 to V6… it took about 2 minutes Hereby the steps for the upgrade : Notice that Veeam already sees the previous installation. HitRead More →
Use this script to gracefully shutdown your servers running on your VMware hosts. (VMware tools has to be installed although) VMLIST=’vmware-cmd -l’ for config in ${VMLIST} do vmware-cmd $config stop trysoft done vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter shutdown -h nowRead More →
I ran into some problems usingthe VC Client Update Manager. After checking the .ZIP update file it came with an error. The solution, download the .ZIP upgrade file, extract it and copy it to your ESXi server using winscp or VC storage browse Go to the directory where you placedRead More →
I install my ESXi servers with a pre-compiled version with ESXi with SSH access already enabled. But for the people who don’t, this is how you enable (unsupported!) SSH access to ESXi. Logon to the console (you don’t have SSH access, so this is the only option) Press ALT-F1 andRead More →
This is just a quick note to describe how you can easily change the vlan ID of the service console in ESX. To remove the vlan id completely, just set it to 0 (in case you have set it by accident on an access port) esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -v 0 -pRead More →
I’ve got this question several times from customers, friends, co-workers etc. Suppose now it’s time to make a small blogpost of it. (Also handy for VCP/VCDX exams) A WWPN (World Wide Port Name) is physically assigned to a part in a Fibre Channel device, such as a FC HBA or SAN.Read More →
When using several VMFS 3 datastores, there is no need to use the VMFS 2 driver. You can unload the driver with the following command : vmkload_mod -u vmfs2 Also, if you are not using (or planning to use) NFS datastores, you can also unload the NFS driver with theRead More →