This script generates a health check report of all attributes pertaining to a single ESX/ESXi 3.x+ host or VMware vCenter and its managed entities (i.e. clusters and individual ESX/ESXi 3.x+ hosts). The generated report is based off of some earlier Powershell script work created by Ivo Beerens/Duncan Eppping. I was primarily motivated on this project [...]
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Terms and lingo
Every technique brings it’s own lingo. While I will not pretend to have a complete dictionary here, all the terms I’ll use in the blog should be here. Storage related: FC – Fiber Channel (disk) (Fiber Channel on Wikipedia) LC-FC – Low Cost Fiber Channel (disk) SAN – Storage Area Network (SAN on Wikipedia) DAS [...]
cmd addnode failed for secondary node: Internal AAM Error – agent could not start.: Unknown HA error
Sometimes you can get the following error when enabling HA on a ESX 3.5 server. cmd addnode failed for secondary node: Internal AAM Error – agent could not start.: Unknown HA error The best way to resolve this problem is to disable both HA and DRS on the cluster. Then first enable HA on the [...]
VMware NIC Renumeration
I ran a bios/firmware update on my ESX host and now none of the networking is working! This happened to me on our Sun X4600M2 servers. I don’t know if it was something in these particular updates, something with these servers, something with Sun servers, etc. It happened and here’s how I fixed it. Note: [...]
VMware Tools: Uninstall failed. Please correct the failure
Today a ran into an issue with the VMware Tools installer on Linux: The solution was simple this time. Just remove the locations file from from /etc/vmware-tools. You can do this by running the following command: rm –f /etc/vmware-tools/locations Now you are able to run the VMware Tool installer again. If you are installing the [...]
Treesize for VMFS
Use the following command to get a “treesize” from your virtual servers du -h –max-depth=2 /vmfs/volumes Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend
