If you are running vSphere vCenter, you might have encountered the following error trying to modify virtual hardware (vDisk) on a VM directly from a host instead of doing it through vCenter : Access to resource settings on the host is restricted to the server which is managing it This behaviour is actually expected, some… Read More »
Having the following error trying to convert a live CentOS/RHEL Linux system with VMware Converter? FAILED: A general system error occurred: Network error. Host x.x.x.x key can’t be retrieved. (return code 2) In my case, this happened while converting a RHEL 5.11 server with VMware Converter 6.1.1. If you went through the following : – SSH… Read More »
You will find below some basic and useful commands to operate a ESXi hypervisor from the command line. Put the host in maintenance mode (or leave maintenance mode) :
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esxcli --server localhost system maintenancemode set --enable <true | false> |
List all VMs registered on the host :
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vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms |
Verify the power state of a specific VM :
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vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate <vmid> |
Power on a specific VM :… Read More »
Here is a list below of version and build number for VMware vCenter Server product. I have no credit over it, it has been taken from virten.net Web site. Name Version Release Build Installer Version vCenter Server 6.0.0 Update 2 6.0 U2 2016-03-15 3634793 3634788 VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Update 1b 6.0 U1b 2016-01-7 3339083 3343019… Read More »
VMware Converter can be awesome and a hassle at the same time. I have used it A LOT. I must say it is a great tool, but under some circumstances, even though you are converting a supported system which is the same as one you’ve done previously, it may fail (but the ones you did… Read More »
I have encountered the following issue lately trying to power on a virtual machine with a limited permission user using the vSphere Web Client : The “Power on virtual machine” operation failed for the entity with the following error message. Virtual machine cannot be found. This happened with a regular user with the appropriate role… Read More »
If you had installed your RHEL/CentOS 5 system using LSILogic Parallel controller, you may have noticed the horrible I/O performance… You unfortunately cannot just change the controller type and expect your VM to boot. There is a few easy steps to ensure that the OS can boot with the new controller. FIRST thing FIRST :… Read More »
If you just have reconfigured your virtual machine hardware in vCenter and can see that the status is stuck at “In progress…” for a while (much longer than usual, even though waiting 30 minutes for something that should normally take 5 seconds), then you may be facing the bug I have seen in vCenter version… Read More »
Having the following error trying to apply IP restriction in the ESXi firewall using the vSphere client? Call “HostFirewallSystem.UpdateRuleset” for object “firewallSystem” on ESXi “0.0.0.0” failed. Operation failed, diagnostics report: Sysinfo error on operation returned status : Already exists. Please see the VMkernel log for detailed error information This behaviour can happen under the following… Read More »
The following error may occur if you have requested a VM to be deleted from disk : A general system error occured: Input/output error In my particular case, the VM was up to 12 Tb and after a little while the operation was running, the error message above showed up in vCenter. The virtual machine… Read More »