Create a directory with enough space to store a copy of the VM you want to migrate Once complete, cd to the new directory. Change the SCSI controller to VirtIO SCSI Single If the VM was using EFI bios, set the BIOS to OVMF (UEFI). You’ll also need to add an EFI disk if you … Read more
Configuring SNMP Agent Parameters in ESXi Specify the monitoring server IP address (SNMP target), port (by default, 161 UDP) and SNMP community name (usually, public): esxcli system snmp set –targets=192.168.99.99@161/public Or you can set the community name as follows: esxcli system snmp set –communities YOUR_COMMUNITY_STRING Additionally, you can specify the location: esxcli system snmp set –syslocation … Read more
There are some pretty significant differences between iSCSI and NFS, both in terms of architecture and performance. One big difference is that NFS really doesn’t have support for multi-pathing (MPIO) in the way that iSCSI does. It has a few work-arounds like using alternate subnets and so forth, but for today we’re going to rely … Read more
How to Backup the ESXi Configuration First of all, since this tutorial will be using the ESXi command line, you will need to connect to the host using SSH. If you don’t know how to enable SSH, you can learn how in the following post: How to Connect to an ESXi 6.5 Host using SSH on … Read more
In this post, you will learn how to backup and restore the VMware ESXi 6.5 configuration using the ESXi command line. Introduction It goes without saying how important it is to have a backup and the configuration of an ESXi host is no exception. It can be time consuming to configure the network settings and … Read more
esxcli software vib update -d “/vmfs/volumes/Datastore/DirectoryName/PatchName.zip” Wait about 5 minutes for it to complete then reboot the host. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2008939