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Just as I did some days ago, you may face the problem that you’re running out of diskpace on your C:\ drive (system drive) in VMWARE. Expanding the system drive is not as easy as expanding a non-system drive (like D:\, E:\ or whatever partitions you may have in your server :) ) These steps will guide you to expand your C:\ drive easily and without any risk. To ensure you don’t lose any data, we first have to make a backup of the vmdk. To do this, turn off the virtual machine a make a copy of the...
create a port channel using the following commands: s3(config)#int port-channel1 s3(config-if)#description NIC team for ESX server s3(config-if)#int gi0/23 s3(config-if)#channel-group 1 mode on s3(config-if)#int gi0/24 s3(config-if)#channel-group 1 mode on show etherchannel load-balance This will report the current load balancing algorithm in use by the switch To set the switch load-balancing algorithm, use one of the following commands in global configuration mode: port-channel load-balance src...
Change the ESX root password So, you forgot the ESX root password? Maybe you just need to change it after a staff change? To save yourself the hassle of reinstalling ESX on all of your hosts follow this simple process: Use Virtual Center to Vmotion all of the VMs to other ESX hosts. (if you have a stand alone host then power down all your VMs) Put the host in Maintenance Mode Reboot your ESX host. Physically go to the ESX console. You will not be able to use a remote console like WinSCP for the next...
Found the process Instructions on how to foracbly terminate a VM if it is unresponsive to the VI client. In this you will be terminating the Master World and User Worlds for the VM which in turn will terminate the VM's processes. 1. First list the running VMs to determine the VM ID for the affected VM: #cat /proc/vmware/vm/*/names vmid=1076 pid=-1 cfgFile="/vmfs/volumes/50823edc-d9110dd9-8994-9ee0ad055a68/vc using sql/vc using sql.vmx" uuid="50 28 4e 99 3d 2b 8d a0-a4 c0 87 c9...