Since SCCM is our configuration management tool of choice, the SCCM client needs to get installed on all of our newly provisioned VMs. I created a service account that only has read permission to the \\sccmserver\sms_sitecode\client share on the SCCM server. The client is installed from this location to ensure that we are always using the latest…
Category: VMware
How to Configure Time Server (NTP Server) on Centos 7?
Prerequisites: VM/ Physical – It is recommended to have the time server as a physical server, but VMs should be okay depending on your setup and requirement. My virtual lab environment is VMware based so here’s the guide for a VM. Once the CentOS Minimal is installed on the VM make sure to install open-vm-tools….
How to restart management agents on ESX or ESXi host
If you are not unable to connect ESXi server to vCenter, or when you cannot connect to ESXi server from VI client it may be necessary to restart the management agents on ESX or ESXi host. To restart the management agents on ESXi 6.x This applies to ESX4/5.x/6.x For the restart of the management agents (mgmt-vmware…
Configure SNMP on an ESXi Host or multiple Hosts
Recently I needed to configure all of our 40 or so ESXi hosts to forward SNMP traps to our corporate monitoring solution. This meant enabling and configuring SNMP on each of the hosts. Naturally, I wrote a script for this as 40 hosts is way too many to do manually. This article shows you how…
VMware: Intermittent Error: Unexpected character ‘’ (code 65279 / 0xfeff) in prolog; expected ‘<' at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,1] pop up in Windows vSphere client ?
Recently, I got the error below when using the vSphere client. Problem: I have only tested this solution on: Solution: Repair your installation of Microsoft Visual J#® 2.0 Redistributable Package – Second Edition (x64) Download The error went away after repair. In trying to google the error some user have reported that uninstall the patch KB3147458 worked for…
ESXi 6.0 not detecting BROCADE HBA adapter
Steps: Make sure HBA is connected on the PCI slot and visible under esx hardware list:
|
1 |
esxcli hardware pci list |
Check if VMKernel can detect any storage via Fibre Channel
|
1 |
esxcli storage san fc list |
(output will be blank line if HBA driver is missing but HBA appears to be in PCI card determined from step 1)
|
1 |
esxcli storage core adapter rescan |
Search and download the…
Remove licensing from ESXi host
WARNING: This is for education/informational testing/development purposes only, and should not be used on a production server. WARNING: This trick will only work with an ESX(i) stand alone server. It will not work if the ESX(i) server is connected to a vCenter Server, as the vCenter Server knows better than to let you do this. …
How to Install VMware Tools on RHEL 7/CentOS 7
VMware Tools is one of important components for virtual machine (VM) in order get excellent performance. It is a group of utilities that help to enhances the overall performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system (OS) and improves management of the VM. Without the VMware Tools, guest OS performance will lacks some of the…