ESXi/Esx host hardware information

Hello

is it possible to get host info like hardware below using powercli...

IP, hostname,

Material,

The version of the BIOS,

model,

CPU Family,

BIOSVersion,

Version and model of CF card

This is because your esxihost are connected to vcenter by name rather than IP addresses.

This will do the trick.

Get-VMHost | Select-object @{N="HostName";E={ $_ | Get-VMHostNetwork | select -ExpandProperty Hostname}},
        @{N="IPAddress"; E={($_ | Get-VMHostNetwork).VirtualNic | Where-Object {$_.ManagementTrafficEnabled} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty IP}},
        Manufacturer,
        Model,
        ProcessorType,
        @{N="BIOS version";E={$_.ExtensionData.Hardware.BiosInfo.BiosVersion}},
        @{N="HBA Model";E={($_ | get-vmhosthba -Type FibreChannel | select-object -ExpandProperty Model) -join ", "}},
        @{N="Driver";E={($_ | get-vmhosthba -Type FibreChannel | select-object -ExpandProperty Driver) -join ", "}}

Post edited by: Kunal Udapi

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Hardware configuration of VMware ESX server.

Name of the vendor	Model	MemorySize	CpuModel	CpuMhz	NumCpuPkgs	NumCpuCores	NumCpuThreads	NumNics	NumHBAs
HP	ProLiant DL360 G7	34348974080	Intel Xeon E5640 CPU @ 2.67GHz	2666	2	8	16	4	3
HP	ProLiant DL360 G7	34348974080	Intel Xeon E5640 CPU @ 2.67GHz	2666	2	8	16	4	3
HP	ProLiant BL460c G6	25758969856	Intel Xeon E5540 2.53 GHz CPU	2533	1	4	8	8	3
HP	ProLiant BL460c G6	25758969856	Xeon of Intel (r) CPU X 5570 @ 2.93 GHz	2933	1	4	8	8	3
HP	ProLiant BL490c G7	137428156416	Xeon of Intel (r) CPU X 5675 3.07 GHz	3066	2	12	24	4	2
HP	ProLiant BL490c G7	137428156416	Xeon of Intel (r) CPU X 5675 3.07 GHz	3066	2	12	24	4	2
HP	ProLiant BL490c G7	137428156416	Xeon of Intel (r) CPU X 5675 3.07 GHz	3066	2	12	24	4	2

Not a more elegant solution, but it should produce the desired result

&{foreach ($esx in Get-VMHost){
  ForEach-Object { $esx.ExtensionData.Summary.Hardware } |
  Select-object @{N="ESX Name";E={$esx.Name}},Vendor, Model, MemorySize, CpuModel, CpuMhz, NumCpuPkgs, NumCpuCores, NumCpuThreads, NumNics, NumHBAs}} |ConvertTo-Html -title "VMware ESX server Hardware configuration" -body "VMware ESX server Hardware configuration." |
Out-File -Append $filelocation

Need a powershell script to gather information from ESX host

Hello
I need a powershell script to collect the below given information host ESX to the Virtual Center. My VC:2.5 of the environment, the ESX hosts: 2.5, 3, 3.5
At present I have individual powershell scripts of a steamer to get these details. Would be more useful to have a single script. I tried VESI, but does not receive the report in the below in the format.
| ESX host name Version | Number | construction | manufacturer Model | Processor type | Number of physical CPUS | Number of cores | VMotion service IP Console IP | | County HBA | Physical NETWORK interface cards count
Thanks in advance!

So I'm at my wits end here.

It works for me and Robert also confirmed that it worked for him.

Although I don't see why this would solve the problem, you could finally try an upgrade to PowerShell v2 RTM.

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Install ESXi/ESX/Vsphere on a single isolated standalone workstation

In the hardware compatibility list, I noticed that the HP Z840 workstation is compatible with ESXi/ESX/Vsphere. In fact, the HP Z840 is the only HP computer that is not a server and still included in this list of compatibility.
For the moment, I have a unique stand-alone HP Z820 workstation.
If I decide to upgrade to a new computer HP Z840 independent, I will be able to install, configure and use ESXi/ESX/Vsphere on it and install top one, two or more systems of guest OS designed to run simultaneously, without having to connect this workstation Z840 even temporarily on another computer, separate console or network?

There are two types of virtualization-

1 bare Metal virtualization-

ESXi is a virtualization software, have you install directly on the physical server from bare metal hardware. ESXi is very compact.

Then to manage ESXi host and create the virtual machine on ESXi host, you need a system more to run vSphere Client or use client Host.

ESXi directly access physical resources, which improve the performance of virtual machines.

2 hosted virtualization-

VMware workstation is a hosted type virtualization software, install you it on any system Windows or Linux and then create virtual machine on it.

Windows underlying system provides material resources to virtual machines created in workstation that's why you get no good performance of the VM as compare to ESXi

Today VMware workstation 12 perform as well, if you simply create VMS to test or purpose LAB VMware workstation will also work.

For good performance, then you must ESXi host at least a Client system to manage ESXi and VMs.

Thank you

Hentzien

Virtual Admin

VCenter Server first to 5.5.0U3b update and later update of VMware ESXi ESX / will I have problems?

Hello
have trouble when I first updated my signature single vCenter Server and later update my vSphere hosts?
A vCenter Server Version 5.5.0U3b should be able to manage vSphere Host Version 5.5.0 GA, right?
Kind regards
Roland

The vCenter Server 5.5 update 3 b can manage VMware ESXi ESX release GA to 5.5 5.5 update 3 b, take a look: VMware product interoperability Matrices

BUT, according to the interoperability matrices and vCenter Server 5.5 update 3 release notes, VMware strongly recommends you upgrade your hosts to 5.5 update 3 b, see:

What's new
- Update Support for the SSLv3 Protocol is disabled by default
  Note: In your vSphere environment, you must update vCenter Server vCenter Server 5.5 update 3 b before the update to 5.5 ESXi ESXi update 3 b. vCenter Server will not be able to manage 3B ESXi 5.5 update, if you update ESXi before update vCenter Server to version 5.5 update 3 b. For more information about the sequence in which vSphere environments must be updated, see KB 2057795.
- VMware strongly recommends you update ESXi hosts to ESXi 5.5 update 3 b management of vCenter Server 5.5 updated 3B.
VMware does not recommend the reactivation of SSLv3 because of the vulnerability of POODLE. If all you must enable SSLv3, you must activate the SSLv3 Protocol for all components. For more information, see

KO 2139396

.
- Resolved issues. This version of vCenter Server 5.5 update 3 b solves the problems that have been documented in the resolved issues section.

the upgrade from 4.1 to cluster 5.5 / 5 esx host.

We currently have 4 noise.running to host esx 4.1.0. (esx 1,2,3 (former host) and 4 (new purchase) and a server vcenter 4.1)
We bought another esx host 5.
I want to upgrade all hosts in the cluster with version 5.5, but I don't think that esx 1 and 2 meet the hardware requirements. This is why only 3/4 can be improved.
I think we can get budget to replace this year laster host 1 and host 2, next year.
What should be the best way to upgrade the cluster (you can buy another host this year and next year a plus). Can I run 4.1 and 5.5 in the same group (I understand its not recommended).
Thanks in advance.

^

Thank you, yeh, I check host 1/2 can support up to esxi 5 version.

update of esx host, use do not update manager

Hello
We have some for security reason esx host we are do not allow to connect to the internet and Update Manager is no/prob can't be installed (security), so I need to download and install the patches manually.
I need to apply the following patch, but at the bottom of the KB, I get
To apply patches to ESXi host is via the VMware Update Manager. For more information, see installation and administration of VMware vSphere Update Manager.
What is the typical whatsoever? is this one?
the hosts are 5.1
kb = http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC & docType = kc & docTypeID = DT_KB_1_1 & externalId = 2035778
see you soon

You can download the patches and copy it into the data store and apply it using ESXCLI

Check the items below it will work by

Install patches on an ESXi host from the command-line 5.x

Fastest way to patch an ESX/ESXi by using the command line

How a VMGuest can see a number of physical ESX host processor

Hello
Not sure if this is expected behavior or not, but I have some application that runs from a linux machine to vmguest in my cluster Vsphere 4.0 U1 that is able to see the number of sockets processor busy on the ESX host that it is currently at. I never saw that happen up to now on another system in our environment. On Linux operating plan, when you run the "cpuinfo", the show only reviews the number of virtual processors assigned to it. I don't know how this program is able to see all the way down beyond the virtualization layer to the actual physical hardware layer on the esx host.
My first thought was that this was triggered after the installation of the VM Tools on the guest operating system, but even after turning off the service tools you can still see the real taken account on the host computer.
Can someone explain to me how this is possible?
Thanks for any info you can provide

Regardless of the tool that allows you to watch the CPU I have a strong suspicion about what is happening here.

The exact CPU type in/proc/cpuinfo is listed: "AMD Opteron Processor 6164 HE.

I guess that the tool you are using has some knowledge (using an internal list of program or by retrieving this information somewhere on the internet) that this CPU has really 12 hearts and he only relies on it and reported that the machine has 12 cores, instead of looking at what is really reported by the operating system.

So, he just does not have the right to work and is not aware of virtualization.

In any case, it is not really able to look directly into the hypervisor.

Andreas

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ESX host reboots randomly

Hi friends,
Two ESX hosts with different hardware and different storage arrays restarts randomly once a week.
Please check the below details:
Group 1
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ESX 4.0 261974 build
Server model: Dell PowerEdge R805
: Processor AMD Quad-core Opteron (tm) processor 2376
Storage model: Local Storare + NFS mount
System reboots one or two times a week
Feb 21 14:20:01 cfdresx1 crond [8037]: pam_unix(system-auth-generic:session): session closed for the root user
Feb 21 14:22:55 cfdresx1 login: pam_unix(system-auth-generic:session): session closed for the root user
Feb 21 14:23:16 cfdresx1 sshd [2518]: received signal 15. closing.
Feb 21 14:23:17 cfdresx1 sshd [28064]: pam_unix(system-auth-generic:session): session closed for the admin user
Feb 21 14:23:17 cfdresx1 sshd [28141]: pam_unix(system-auth-generic:session): session closed for the admin user
Feb 21 14:23:17 cfdresx1 sshd [29326]: pam_unix(system-auth-generic:session): session closed for the admin user
Feb 21 14:23:18 cfdresx1 sshd [7983]: pam_unix(system-auth-generic:session): session closed for the admin user
Feb 21 14:23:18 known cfdresx1: pam_unix(system-auth-generic:session): session closed for the root user
Feb 21 14:23:18 cfdresx1 last message repeated 3 times
Feb 21 14:23:22 cfdresx1 sshd [14542]: pam_unix(system-auth-generic:session): session closed for the admin user
Feb 21 14:23:22 known cfdresx1: pam_unix(system-auth-generic:session): session closed for the root user
21 Feb 14:27:20 cfdresx1 sshd [2464]: server listens on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
21 Feb 14:27:58 cfdresx1/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd [2700]: pam_per_user: create_subrequest_handle(): search for user 'root' card
21 Feb 14:27:58 cfdresx1/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd [2700]: pam_per_user: create_subrequest_handle(): creation of new subquery (user = 'root', = 'system-auth-generic' service)
21 Feb 14:27:58 cfdresx1/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd [2700]: pam_unix(system-auth-generic:auth): authentication failure; logName = uid = 0 euid = 0 TTY = ruser = rhost = user = root
Feb 21 14:28:25 cfdresx1/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd [2700]: pam_per_user: create_subrequest_handle(): search user ID 'vpxuser '.
Feb 21 14:28:25 cfdresx1/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd [2700]: pam_per_user: create_subrequest_handle(): creation of new subquery (user = "vpxuser", service = "system-auth-local)
Feb 21 14:30:01 cfdresx1 crond [6866]: pam_per_user: create_subrequest_handle(): search for user 'root' card
21 Feb 14:30:01 cfdresx1 crond [6866]: pam_per_user: create_subrequest_handle(): creation of new subquery (user = 'root', = 'system-auth-generic' service)
Feb 21 14:30:01 cfdresx1 crond [6866]: pam_unix(system-auth-generic:session): session opened for user root by (uid = 0)

Group 2
=======
ESX 4.0 261974 build
Server model: HP Proliant DL380 G5
Storage model: EMC FAS 2020
Processor: Intel Xeon E5310
Fibre channel drive (Smart array P800)
System restarts once or wice a week
17 February 13:46:49 cfesx02 vmkernel: 3:06:29:42.934 cpu1:6071) VSCSI: 6025: handle 8245 (vscsi4:0): device destroying world 6072 (pendCom 0)
17 February 13:46:49 cfesx02 vmkernel: 3:06:29:43.057 cpu1:6071) DevFS: 2370: could not find the device: 7f20c802-NP-5 - delta.vmdk
17 February 13:46:49 cfesx02 vmkernel: 3:06:29:43.206 cpu1:6071) VSCSI: 6025: handle 8246 (vscsi1:0): device destroying world 6072 (pendCom 0)
17 February 13:46:50 cfesx02 vmkernel: 3:06:29:44.356 cpu4:6088) VMotionSend: 2921:1297971987014193 S: sent all modified pages to destination (band network bandwidth ~115.203 MB/s)
17 February 13:47:14 cfesx02 vmkernel: 3:06:30:08.548 cpu5:4137) WARNING: NFSLock: 2036: disk is locked by other consumers
17 February 13:47:14 cfesx02 vmkernel: 3:06:30:08.548 cpu5:4137) NFSLock: 2677: can't get the lock on file 5 - NP - 36a6887b.vswp 0 x 410003234410 on 192.168.48.32 (192.168.48.32): busy
17 February 15:02:28 cfesx02 vmkernel: TSC: 0 cpu0:0) Init: 418: cpu 0: tsc measured at the beginning of 2300092987 Hz speed
17 February 15:02:28 cfesx02 vmkernel: TSC: 10276 cpu0:0) Init: 419: vmkLoadEntry = $[0x390ab9a0]
17 February 15:02:28 cfesx02 vmkernel: TSC: 18114 cpu0:0) Cpu: 346: id1.version 100f42
17 February 15:02:28 cfesx02 vmkernel: TSC: 25157 cpu0:0) CPUAMD: 214: detection of xapic on AMD_K8:tcr = 0x4fc820
17 February 15:02:28 cfesx02 vmkernel: TSC: cpu0:0 30887) CPUAMD: 315: effective family = 16
Could someone please let me know why the reboot is happening?

You can also drop in the newspapers of the host-d and/or information provided by a dump of support?

My suspicion is that you can have something material related current. Have you checked the hardware section of the cilent VI or the HP tools?

-Cody

http://professionalvmware.com

Can you run various NUMA parameters on ESX host?

Hi all
We are running ESX 3.0 and have experienced a problem with some our fair virtual servers randomly close I googled the error message displayed in the case where newspapers that lead me to the article below in the VMware KB.
http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 10213
This article is about the exact message we receive, so I am confident that its troubleshooting procedures should work as we run the NUMA architecture in our environment, but I have a question before the change of management being curious to know a bit more information regarding hit her on the effects of his settings of NUMA in our environment.
That's why we have taken two ESX hosts in our environment, my question was the following can I make NUMA changes on an ESX host and then migrate (if they aren't already) servers that have had the shutdown problem random overall to the ESX host that has the correct settings of NUMA as detailed in the article above?
If any of you out there have done this before? If so is there any bad shot on the effects that I should know about? Any comments or advice you can give me on this would be greatly appreciated! Roll on the migration to VSphere 4.0!
Thank you
Nick

Hi Nick,

That's why we have taken two ESX hosts in our environment, my question was the following can I make NUMA changes on an ESX host and then migrate (if they aren't already) servers that have had the shutdown problem random overall to the ESX host that has the correct settings of NUMA as detailed in the article above?

No Yes No problem with that. The VM themselves are not aware that they are running on NUMA hardware, so will not notice. The bug is because the vmkernel does not release memory properly when a virtual machine gets on demand on one NUMA node other than that which has been started the. Configuration Numa.MonMigEnable effectively disables this behavior at the host level, but this does not disable the advantage of NUMA so you may notice a performance decrease.

Not sure of your patch levels, but apparently it was 'fixed' with this patch: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2066306

Kind regards.

cannot remove vMA ESX hosts

I added a few guests of the vMA and activate the newspaper collection. It collects logs for the hosts with success. I don't want to follow these with the vMA hosts more because they are in a remote location and that it would implement a vMA at the remote location. I use the sudo vifp removeserver servername command to remove the ESX host and they are eliminated as appropriate. I run the vifp order mailing lists and they appear more more. The thing is that the newspaper collection is still happening against the machines on the vMA. I'll look in the directory/var/log/vmware and the directory for the ESX host, I deleted is still there. I removed the directory and they immediately come with newspapers. I'm going to rerun the command to remove the host and he says that they are already removed.
How get rid you of the machines out of the vMA?

You must use vilogger to disable the first control, and then remove the targets of vMA. Looks like vilogger works regardless of what VMAs think its management.

If you have removed the targets of MAS... should not be able to connect to your targets from a distance. Are you sure that the log data is always transferred or is it simply a directory being created?

There is a local credstore that is stored in the home directory of vi-admin /home/vi-admin/.vmware/credstore, perhaps you may need to disable it (make a backup first and move or rename)

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