Enable SSH on the ESXi Machine and run the following If this doesnt work then you can use something like this in powershell however it needs Vcenter and […]
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VMware Vcenter – VIM_VCDB database ‘PRIMARY’ filegroup is full
Recently a customer had filled up their free SQL Express Database with Events and Tasks from Vmware. The Hosts has both gone to Disconnected with error cannot […]
Vmware disk size appearing as 0MB in Client settings
Recently had a virtual machine show up with a disk size of 0MB in the Vmware client. The machine was still running however Veeam backups were failing.Checking […]
Unable to find SRA files. You must install SRA before adding or modifying an array manager.
Error: Unable to find SRA files. You must install SRA before adding or modifying an array manager.Troubleshooting steps:1.Took RDP to both the SRM servers.2. Reset the [email protected] […]
Vmware CIM Service stops monitoring host after Windows Update
Unable to establish CIM session with ESX server: The remote server returned an error: (501) Not Implemented.Looking in cat /var/log/messagesWe see Cipher Errors , SHA-1 was decomissioned in […]
Installing NCM ( Network Connection Manager) for Nimble – 6.5 Vmware
The below command needs to be run on Each Host , it will remove the old one and install the new oneesxcli software vib install -d https://update.nimblestorage.com/esx6.5/ncm/index.xmlThe host […]
Find VM’s using e1000 Adapter Running Windows
Powershell script to list machines running the out of date e1000 Adapter in Windows so you can update them to VMXnet3 !
How to enable SNMP monitoring on a VCSA 6.5 Vmware Vcenter
Enabled SSH Login on your VCenter Appliance ( this can be done through the GUI or via Direct Console Access )Run the below commands replacing username and […]
Roll Back \ Downgrade of ESX 6.5 to ESX 6 Settings
After I found HP’s version of 6.5 wasn’t stable yet : http://pariswells.com/blog/random/hp-vmware-6-5-psod We needed to roll back to v6 UP2You can usually do this if you’ve done an upgrade […]
How to set SNMP on Vmware
ESX Version 5You need to use the CLI to edtit this per below : PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI> get-vmhostsnmp | set-vmhostsnmp -enable:$true -readonlycommunity @(“%communityname%”) -addtarget -targetcommunity ‘%communityname%’ […]