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• create new account ESX

  I understand that it is recommended to use a user account on my ESX box vs acct root when possible.   How to create a user account on my ESX box.  I know how to do it on my VirtualCenter server, but I understand that it's different for the host ESX Server

  Hi pearlyshells:

  To create accounts on ESX hosts, point your VIC to the ESX host directly.  I did so the hosts are in a cluster for DRS/HA configuration, I just don't make any other change except user accounts.

  After you have connected to the host, click the host itself and one of the tabs on the right is 'Users and groups' - you can create new users on host it.

• How to change a user account non-root on multiple esx hosts 4

  We currently use the script below to change the root password, but we need a to change a non-root user account that does not have access to the root of how.

  So if the script could be changed to connect to each server with root and then change the password of the root no account that might be useful.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  -Steve

  #
  # This script changes the password to root on all ESX host in the esxservers.txt text file
  #

  # Add toolkit-VI #.
  Add-PSsnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core
  Initialize - VIToolkitEnvironment.ps1

  # Get old credential root
  $oldrootPassword = "Enter the old root password" Read-Host - AsSecureString
  $oldrootCredential = new-object - typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential - argumentlist 'root', $oldrootPassword

  # New information for the identification of root
  $newrootPassword = "Enter the new root password" Read-Host - AsSecureString
  $newrootCredential = new-object - typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential - argumentlist 'root', $newrootPassword
  $newrootPassword2 = Read-Host "Retype new root password" - AsSecureString
  $newrootCredential2 = new-object - typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential - argumentlist 'root', $newrootPassword2
  $WarningPreference = "SilentlyContinue".

  # Compare passwords
  If ($newrootCredential.GetNetworkCredential ().) Password - ceq $newrootCredential2.GetNetworkCredential (). {Password)

  # Create the new object of root account
  $rootaccount = new-Object VMware.Vim.HostPosixAccountSpec
  $rootaccount.id = 'root '.
  $rootaccount.password = $newrootCredential.GetNetworkCredential (). Password
  $rootaccount.shellAccess = ' / bin/bash ".

  # The list of text file host servers to change the root password on
  Get-Content esxservers.txt | %{
  SE connect-VIServer $_-user root - password $oldrootCredential.GetNetworkCredential (). Password - ErrorAction SilentlyContinue - ErrorVariable ConnectError. Out-Null
  If ($ConnectError - not $Null) {}
  Write-Host "ERROR: unable to connect to the ESX Server: ' $_
  }
  Else {}
  $si = get-view ServiceInstance
  $acctMgr = get-view-Id $si.content.accountManager
  $acctMgr.UpdateUser ($rootaccount)
  Write-Host "Root password changed successfully on ' $_
  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $False | Out-Null
  }
  }
  }
  Else {}
  Write-Host "ERROR: new root passwords do not match." Smooth... »
  }

  Try something like that.

  First, it prompts you for the password for root servers ESX (i).

  And then the account name, followed by the 2 times the new password

  #
  # This script changes the password of an account on all ESX hosts in the esxservers.txt textfile#
   # Add VI-toolkit # Add-PSsnapin VMware.VimAutomation.CoreInitialize-VIToolkitEnvironment.ps1
  
  # Get root password$rootPassword = Read-Host "Enter root password" -AsSecureString$rootCredential = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist "root",$rootPassword
  # Get account to change$account = Read-Host "Enter account"# Get new account credential$newaccountPassword = Read-Host "Enter new password" -AsSecureString$newaccountCredential = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $account,$newaccountPassword$newaccountPassword2 = Read-Host "Retype new password" -AsSecureString$newaccountCredential2 = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $account,$newaccountPassword2$WarningPreference = "SilentlyContinue"
  # Compare passwordsIf ($newaccountCredential.GetNetworkCredential().Password -ceq $newaccountCredential2.GetNetworkCredential().Password) {
  
      # Create new root account object    $accountSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostPosixAccountSpec    $accountSpec.id = $account    $accountSpec.password = $newaccountCredential.GetNetworkCredential().Password
      $accountSpec.shellAccess = "/bin/bash"
      # Get list of Host servers from textfile to change account password on    Get-Content esxservers.txt | %{
          Connect-VIServer $_ -User root -Password $rootCredential.GetNetworkCredential().Password -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -ErrorVariable ConnectError | Out-Null        If ($ConnectError -ne $Null) {
              Write-Host "ERROR: Failed to connect to ESX server:" $_        }
          Else {
              $si = Get-View ServiceInstance            $acctMgr = Get-View -Id $si.content.accountManager
              $acctMgr.UpdateUser($accountSpec)
              Write-Host "$account password successfully changed on" $_            Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$False | Out-Null        }
      }
  }
  Else {
  Write-Host "ERROR: New $account passwords do not match. Exiting..."}
  

• You can create a view that filters (ESX host) Linux machines on the view of the Infrastructure?

  Hello

  We have recently implemented Foglight and VMware plugin. As part of the VMware plugin, Foglight pulls in all the Linux VM machines including the ESX host. Our team of Linux only manages the running redhat Linux hosts. They fail the ESX VM guest. That said, is there a way to create a view that shows only the hosts running redhat Linux?

  For example the view of rail infrastructure below contains 88 Linux machines, but nearly half of them are ESX hosts for our Linux team would not see all these. Is it possible to filter these?

  

  Any help is appreciated.

  Thank you

  Tony

  The easiest way would be to create a personalized, pair it with Infrastructure and then create a dynamic management component.  This will help create you a rule for "All hosts" where you can find just the hosts that are not of the ESX host and run Linux.

  The query would be:

  detail.topologyTypeName! = "VMWESXServer" & os.longName like «% Linux»

• I create an account, the user receives the email to activate the account, but a message shows the account activate has been exceeded my question how to achieve responsive account id

  I create an account, but the user receives email to activate account, but a message account activate has been exceeded my question how reactive to this account id

  Contact adobe during the time pst support by clicking here and, when available, click on "still need help," http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/service-ccm.html

• Question ESXi 5.5 with turn a virtual computer: "an error was received from the ESX host turning on VM" '22 (Invalid argument)"'DiskEarly on a power Module failed.'

  Here's what happens when you try to turn it on one of my virtual machines (see also accessories):

  Error stack:

  An error was received from the ESX host turning on VM vzilla-ws2012r2e.

  Unable to start the virtual machine.

  Cannot open disk ' / vmfs/volumes/51286ca4-ef967828-664d-001b2129ad71/vzilla-ws2012r2e/vzilla-ws2012r2e_3.vmdk ' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

  22 (invalid argument)

  Power DiskEarly module has failed.

  Cannot open disk ' / vmfs/volumes/51286ca4-ef967828-664d-001b2129ad71/vzilla-ws2012r2e/vzilla-ws2012r2e_4.vmdk ' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

  22 (invalid argument)

  This circumstance may be linked to a sata cable issue, with the possibility of temporary loss of connectivity, which could result in data loss/corruption, I realize.  It is a laboratory box.  Especially say that the 2 VMDK he complains (trying to light) is both on the grounds of a single physical disk. Data, read and written to the speaker, since the problem are very good (which indicates the wiring problem was resolved, and the VMFS5 file system seems to be in good health).

  No photos.  No related clones.  Just a 2012 Windows Server based VM, with several drive letters in, with those underlying files VMDK residing on different stores of data VMFS5.  Implemented end (these drives aren't really so huge), but far from running out of physical space for the data either. Everything is working great for months, until today, trying to it turns on again.

  You are looking for:

  "Failure error disk beginning module lit" results in this article:

  error disk on start module failed

  which indicates the .lck files may be present.  It does not exist.

  Then upwards, of a variety of other items:

  Re: Unable to start the virtual machine: invalid argument on *-flat.vmdk

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1004232

  https://communities.VMware.com/message/search.jspa?peopleEnabled=true & userid = & ContainerType = & Container = & q = module + DiskEar...

  error disk on start module failed

  but alas, none of them seem to relate directly, or exactly.  My vmware.log file is attached below, as well as some screenshots of to show the structure of the unity of this virtual machine.  Hoping that this post proves fruitful, if anyone has had a similar situation.  The data at stake here are (mostly) redundant, but I would rather understand my way of it, in the case where it happens to me again, or can help others.  Many preferred rather than give up, reformat the VMFS and start again.

  Thank you!

  Good news, the best result I could hope. No data is lost. No corruption of the VMFS or NTFS don't drive in the virtual machine. Nice!  Saved me a few terabytes of data restoration and learned a little more on file system of troubleshooting along the way.

  It took a technician of VMware Service excellent, attentive, methodical remote 2 hours in a WebEx previously to resolve problems with these 2 files vmdk manually, because he found that there is a lock on them. I opened a request of Service (SR) # with VMware by following the instructions here:

  VMware KB: Cannot access certain files on a VMFS datastore

  To resolve this problem, apply for support from VMware Support and note this ID (1012036) Knowledge Base article in the description of the problem. For more information on the filing of a request for support, see How to submit a support request.

  I'll cover this saga and the exact process for collecting and downloading of newspapers, through to my TinkerTry.com, including the ride video.  I even captured much of the technical work that has been done. That said, it is true that little of the magic that was made to resurrect the metadata will remain a mystery, given that this piece is VMware.

  I'm ok with a bit of black box, considering how I'm happy that I got all my data, and time savings that the quick recovery represented.

  By clicking on the button "answer".

• Utilities to host ESX NetApp - questions?

  Hello

  I would like to install this tool on my ESX hosts, but I would ask you if you were having trouble with this tool? I will probably only use for mbrscan/mbralign configuration and nfs, so my setup is not described in their paper (they mention only fc/iscsi), so I guess no error should occur?

  What this SSL connection? is it necessary? For what?

  and these openen installing ports, I can close them down (20,21,23,80,443)? It won't be unexpected problem?

  Thanks in advance for any response.

  We use it to FC/iSCSI environment for multiple access paths and the HBA queue depth. As you use NFS I wouldn't install ESX utilities, because you won't get a lot of them. I have just download and install mbrscan/mbralign.

  David Strebel

  www.Holy-VM.com

  If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".

• Add production ESX hosts to a cluster

  Hi all

  I did some research in the admin guides and community forums, and I'm sure that I know what to do, but I would really appreciate a test of consistency here because the manipulation I do is in a production environment:

  I have a campus that contains two ESX areas that are managed by using vSphere and connected to a San. vMotion of works very well, the performance is very good (although the resources of the two boxes are fairly complete upward). However, I recently realized that I'd neglected to set up a cluster HA and DRS.  I want to remedy.

  I created the cluster with these specs:

  • the two HA and DRS, enabled
  • to the left, she also fully automated.
  • the power management of left
  • monitoring and host admission control enabled
  • leave the default settings for the behavior of the virtual machine
  • monitoring VM disabled
  • EVC enabled
  • the storage value of the swap with the virtual machine file

  I think that the next steps would be to add each ESX host consecutively and merged its resources with the cluster. However, here are a few questions:

  • How do you assess the risk factor to do this in a production environment (1 = perfectly safe, is a proven Scenario; 5 = you are out of your bloody mind? Do not)
  • Should I be triple-checking the SAN snapshots and planning of downtime for servers, or is it possible live and without any major qualms?
  • Am I right in assuming that it will increase my performance as well as provide better robustness of the campus, or should I expect a decrease in performance?

  Thank you very much in advance for your advice!

  Hey red,

  Addressing your particular situation, I would say yes to two questions.  Admission control HA is here to help you.  Ensure there are enough resources on the host computer to run the current and any expected load it will be after an HA event.  50% is close to default (but it is really based on the size of the slot) in an environment with two guests when guest cluster failures tolerates is set to 1 in a two and 25% host environment when the percentage of unused reserved as production capacity cluster resources in failover is left to its default value.

  If you have several virtual machines running that allows you to book 50% of your cluster resources (which it sounds like you have), then you have the option of "first category" your virtual machines and their giving priorities to restart event HA.  For their level, you'll want to active DRS (can be set to manual Automation), resource pools and you will need to configure your virtual machine under your HA settings options.  You'll want to pay attention to the priority of restarting VM here.

  I suggest you take a look at blog Duncan Epping http://www.yellow-bricks.com/ and Frank Denneman http://frankdenneman.nl/blog. They are all two fairly well the definitive answer to the HA and DRS questions and advice.

  See you soon,.

  Mike

  http://VirtuallyMikeBrown.com

  https://Twitter.com/#! / VirtuallyMikeB

  http://LinkedIn.com/in/michaelbbrown

  Note: Epping and Denneman explained that the amount reserved by default resources when you use the host cluster failures tolerates is promising to reserve enough resources to power on virtual machines.  This reserve of resource does not on average current, account, or future default load.  If you want to manipulate this feature, modify the memory and CPU reserves, which are the numbers used to calculate the size of the slot.

  Post edited by: VirtuallyMikeB

• A general error occurred: could not connect with the password of administrator of vim cannot configure VIM account on the host

  Community salvation.

  Story: I was called to look at the configuration of vSphere for a customer. When I started looking, I noticed several problems in the environment of the person who has put in place initially. I've been noting but have done nothing to fix these up to the...

  A question that I've seen is that the server vSphere does not apper communicate properly on ESX 3.5 servers. The error message is similar to a post on this forum ( http://communities.vmware.com/message/1450789?tstart=0) however the same method of solution did not work.

  Currently I have two ESX hosts connected to a console vSphere. The Console displays the disconnected hosts and the error points to the problems with the VPXUSER account. I found

  I searched and found several articles with similar questions, so I chose a course of action

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1007132

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/1168241

  As a note - vSphere client connections toESX welcomes also directly works very well - don't show no problems and everything seems fine.

  So - my first actions were to disconnect and reconnect one of the hosts.  The operation failed with the error "a general error has occurred: unable to connect with the password of administrator of vim cannot configure VIM account on the host. After that, I followed the elimination of the VPXUSER process, restarted the agents and you reconnect the server for vSphere - to the same result. I then deleted the ESX host, removed the VPXUSER, restarted the agents and added that the host ESX back once again - but no change - the same exact error message. I don't see the VPXUSER ID are re-created by this process - so I guess that ESX and vSphere should know the ID and the password.

  Nothing shows up in the var for this - but one of the articles above explains that as a result of the use of the PAM modules.

  Just for fun, I also tried using the ROOT password and reallowing ROOT to connect via SSH - but I got the same failures. I also tried lifting the VPXUSER ID privleges but - same questions.

  If - goes here - any ideas? I can give other details or screen caputres

  ESX3:

  #%PAM-1.0

  1. Automatically generated by esxcfg-auth

  /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so account required

  AUTH required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_env.so

  AUTH sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok

  AUTH required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so

  attempts at password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so = 3

  shadow md5 password sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok

  /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so password required

  session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_limits.so

  session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so

  ESX4

  #%PAM-1.0

  account required pam_per_user.so /etc/pam.d/login.map

  AUTH required pam_per_user.so /etc/pam.d/login.map

  /etc/pam.d/login.map pam_per_user.so password required

  /etc/pam.d/login.map pam_per_user.so sign in required

  -KjB

• Serial numbers of the ESX host

  Is it possible to account for the serial numbers of physical ESX host?  I can easily make name, esx version and build, but the last thing needed would be the serial number (knows what vCenter).  He is buried somewhere in the views I have just lack?

  BTW, I'd LOVE to have the search bar in creating tables.  Drilling through an infinite hierarchy of objects can be quite tedious!

  I m sure that the license information is not collected. Transmits your search bar request along to the Foglight core team for review.

  Thank you!

• ESX host has a virtual machine that must be behind a physical firewall

  We have several hosts of ESXi.  Some are standard ver3.5, while others are standard ver4.1.  All guests of stand alone.

  A host ESX ver3.5 has 6 virtual computers assigned to the network port of the single on a vSwitch stand-alone virtual computer group.   This switch has 3 uplinks.

  One of the virtual machines must place the physical while the rest remains in front of the firewall as well as the ESX host firewall.   I am told that this can be done by assigning one of of the uplinks to a subnet that is behind the firewall.  And this is the best way to manage it.   My question is: is it possible?   My experience limited with physical firewall and what knowledge I have of VI3, we would need to create a separate vSwitch to do this and assign the VM to these switches... and that's if the uplink can be assigned to a physical switch that connects to another switch behind the firewall (I think).

  Something doesn't seem quite in here... I'm not sure it will work.

  Sounds good to me. If it is a separate physical switch to connect, then you will need an additional vSwitch. If it's just a separate VLAN you could - depending on your current configuration (VST) - just create a new port with the appropriate VLAN ID configured Group.

  André

• The best way to solve this problem (internal vCenter, ESX host external)

  The issue is that we have our virtual Center and our production ESX hosts on our internal network. We have another site of emergency in a remote network, but welcomed a public address with a firewall in front of her.  When I add the host of my vCenter she adds in fact very well and works for 1 minute, then disconnects. This is because the heartbeat may not respond to the virtual Center.  The emergency server will be 3 VMS host, 1 e-mail box, 1 website and 1 backup domain controller.  I only know the basics of networking, so I don't know what would be the best idea of tests.

  I will apply to network engineers after that I know that would work well.

  I should create a nat device for the server vCenter and which will resolve the heart beat question

  I should have a set up reverse proxy, then change the esx host and change the internal address of the vCenter to the public address with proxy reverse?

  Should I make the address pool which esx host has (about 10 external and public addresses) available to route between our internal VLAN?

  Y at - it a sugguestion different with a better description would you recommend to solve this problem and better my future goals with the 3 virtual machines, that I intend to host on this server.

  Any advice is welcome.

  Thank you

  Is it possible to Site 2 Site VPN? If Yes, then it would be much less complicated. Put ESX in DMZ with public IPs is not a good idea in terms of security.

  iDLE-jAM | SC 2, SC 3 & VCP 4

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• New-VIPermission to root ESX host

  EMC ControlCenter requires a local account on the ESX host for the discovery. To do this, I need to create a permission at the level of the host root.  I can do this with New-VIPermission-entity (Get-VMHost), but permission it creates is broken somehow. It works, I can log on, but the entity is clearly wrong.

  The fault becomes apparent if I try to remove the permission: an error (if I used PowerCLI or MISTLETOE)

  • The EntityID for permission to the root is ha-folder-root of the folder

  • The EntityID for the created permission as above is HostSystem-ha-home

  • The entityID for a permission created using the GUI is ComputeResource-ha-calculation-res, file-ha-folder-root, HostSystem-ha-host ResourcePool-ha-root-pool

  Which entity should I proceed to New-VIPermission to create a valid clearance at this level?

  Try this

  $authMgr = Get-View (Get-View ServiceInstance).Content.AuthorizationManager
  $entity = Get-Folder ha-folder-root | Get-View
  $perm = New-Object VMware.Vim.Permission
  $perm.entity = $entity.MoRef
  $perm.group = $true
  $perm.principal = "ControlCenter"
  $perm.propagate = $true
  $perm.roleId = ($authMgr.RoleList | where {$_.Name -eq "ControlCenter"}).RoleId
  $authMgr.SetEntityPermissions($entity.MoRef,$perm)
  

  Worked for me.

• Disconnected ESX host cannot add to the CR

  It started with me being unable to power on a virtual machine that I created because of "Insufficient resources to meet the level of failover configured for HA" which is great because that's how to configure HA.  I tried to reconfigure the AP to the host by double-clicking on the host and select this option.  Once I did that it failed about 30% with "an error has occurred while setting up the HA Agent on the host" and the networking page disappeared from the configuration tab similar to what a lot of people reported during the upgrade, I think an earlier version.  This is not the case, I did not update anything.  Then I restarted service service mgmt-vmware restart and the ESX host disconnected from the VC altogether.  I can't use the VI client to connect to the host in question, but I am connected via the service console. All VM and the host not to requests ping and everything works. I've disabled HA and DRS and tried to add new ESX host that has not worked.

  Any help is appreciated.  Thank you.

  I found this article that has the same symptoms as you.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1004451

  Check if your esx.conf file is corrupted. Follow the directions in the KB article to restore or recreate.

  Arnim - van Lieshout

  -

• PowerShell Script to add users and permissions to the ESX host

  Here is a script to add the user accounts...

  You have a script to add the permissions?

  1. Original by c_shanklin @ http://communities.VMware.com/message/1013362

  Function New-VMHostShellAccount {param ($Name, $Password = $null, $Description = $null, $PosixId = $null) $SvcInstance = Get-view serviceinstance $AcctMgr = Get-View $SvcInstance.Content.AccountManager $AcctSpec = new-object VMware.Vim.HostPosixAccountSpec $AcctSpec.id = $ $Name = AcctSpec.password $AcctSpec.description $Password = $Description $AcctSpec.shellAccess = $false # Enable shell access $AcctSpec.posixId = $PosixId $AcctMgr.CreateUser ($AcctSpec) # Create user Get-VMHostAccount |} Where-Object {$_.} {ID - eq $Name} # Write new user in the output stream just as New-VMHostAccount would be}

  1. Added by Timothy cutting

  $vcs = @ ($vcs) += connect-viserver "VCSERVER01" $vcs += connect-viserver "VCSERVER02" $vcs += connect-viserver "VCSERVER03" $vcs += connect-viserver "VCSERVER04" $vcs += connect-viserver 'VCSERVER05' $vcs += connect-viserver 'VCSERVER06 '.

  $user = Read-Host "authenticate - USER NAME" $pass = Read-Host "Authenticate - PASSWORD" $newuser = Read-Host "Create new user account" $newpass = Read-Host "Create New Password" $description = Read-Host "Create Description" $Id = Read-Host "to create identification number.

  $vmhosts = get-VMHost-Server $vcs | Sort-Object Name

  foreach ($vmhost in $vmhosts) {Write-Host $vmhost Connect-VIServer $vmhost - user $user-password $pass New-VMHostShellAccount-name $newuser - $newpass - $Description - $Id PosixId Description password}

  Take a look at create roles of directors by script.

  Here, I show you how to create a new 'role' and then how to assign this role, as well as accounts or shareholders as they are called in the API, entity.

  An ESX Server has 3 built in roles ('No Access', 'Read only' and 'Administrator'), but you can create your own roles with just the privileges that you need.

  Note that the VI Toolkit for Windows Community Extensions contain functions to manage roles and permissions.

  Extensions require to use PowerShell v2 CTP3!