ESXi – Extend Performance Data

By default a standalone ESXi host will keep 1 hours worth of performance data. vCenter Server will allow you to capture performance data long term, but if you have just the standalone ESXi host you can extend the capture of performance data to 36 hours with just a simple configuration change. This change will require SSH or console access …

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How to Use the vihostupdate Command

The command vihostupdate allows you to extract patch files and to install them on your host. To extract the contents of patch use this command. To install the patch run the following command. To extract and install the patch in one step run the following command. Notes – the command will extract the patch into the current folder …

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How to use vifs.php Command

The command vifs.php can be used to move files to and from your ESXi host. As of Update 2 of the ESXi 3.5 RCLI, this command is not supported with VirtualCenter. If you only need to copy files from your ESXi host, then you can also use your web browser to retrieve files. ESXi allows …

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How to use vicfg-user.pl

The commands vicfg-user.pl (esxcfg-user.pl) are used to manage local users and groups on your ESXi host. The commands will always require the –entity (-e) and –operation (-o) options. With this command you can add, modify, list and delete users and groups. The vicfg-user.pl script has the following options. Sample Session vicfg-user.pl –server 192.168.1.33 –entity user –operation …

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How to use vicfg-syslog.pl

The commands vicfg-syslog.pl (esxcfg-syslog.pl) allow you to set a remote syslog server for an ESXi 3.5 host. This command will not work on ESX 3.5 hosts. If you connect via a VirtualCenter host with the –server option, you must then specify the ESXi host with the -h/–vihost <host> option. Once the settings are configured, there is …

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How to use vicfg-snmp.pl

The commands vicfg-snmp.pl (esxcfg-snmp.pl) allow you to enable, configure and disable the SNMP agent that comes with ESXi. Given the architecture of ESXi, it is not possible to add 3rd party SNMP agents to ESXi and given the diverse nature of SNMP management applications, ESXi only support SNMP traps and not gets. The SNMP agent …

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How to use vicfg-nics.pl

The commands vicfg-nics.pl (esxcfg-nics.pl) are used to manage the physical NIC ports in your ESXi host. The VMkernel will identify each NIC port as vmnicX where X is a number starting with 0. The following options are available –list (-l) – this will list the current NIC ports in the system including VMkernel name, PCI …

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ViCFG-AdvCfg.pl Tutorial

The commands vicfg-advcfg.pl (esxcfg-advcfg.pl) are used to change Advanced Settings for your host as you would with the VI client (see Configuration \ Advanced Settings. Typically these settings would be changed only under the guidance of VMware Support or a knowledge base article. The vicfg-advcfg.pl command has the following options. Sample session vicfg-advcfg.pl –server esx10.mishchenko.net –get LVM.DisallowSnapshot …

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